Gadhafi's son had survived US strike in 1986
• APSeif al-Arab Gadhafi escaped a U.S. airstrike targeting his father's compound in Tripoli in 1986. Twenty-five years later, the Libyan leader's second-youngest son was reportedly killed in a NATO airstrike.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/africa/02libya.html