Ayesha Gaddafi (, born December 25, 1977), also known as Aisha Gaddafi, is a Libyan former mediator and military official, former UN Goodwill Ambassador, and lawyer by profession. She is the fifth child and only biological daughter of former Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi and his second wife Safia Farkash. Education Gaddafi was educated at the Paris Diderot University, and she studied law at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Military service She trained with the Libyan military, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. Diplomacy In 2000 after sanctions were imposed on Iraq, she arrived in Baghdad with a delegation of 69 officials. Shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, she met with Saddam Hussein. In 2000, Ayesha gave a speech at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London in support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, when questioned about her support for the IRA in 2010 she stated "I have always been a supporter of all liberation movements. Britain is Britain and Ireland is Ireland." She also supported the Iraqi insurgents, stating "When you have an occupying army coming from abroad, raping your women and killing your own people, it is only legitimate that you fight them." In 2011, she strongly denounced the policies of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. President Barack Obama, calling for a mediation of the Libyan Civil War through an international organization which would exclude them. Ayesha has served as a mediator on behalf of the government with European Union corporations. UN Goodwill Ambassador Ayesha Gaddafi was appointed as the United Nations Development Program National Goodwill Ambassador for Libya on 24 July 2009, primarily to address the issues of HIV/AIDS, poverty and women's rights in Libya, all of which are culturally sensitive topics in the country. In February 2011 the United Nations stripped Ayesha of her role as a goodwill ambassador. Legal affairs In July 2004, she joined the legal defence team of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Gaddafi is also the head of the charity Wa Attassimou, which defended Muntadhar al-Zaidi when he faced charges stemming from the shoe-hurling incident. Libyan civil war Travel ban She was placed under a travel ban on 26 February 2011, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970. Legal petitions Gaddafi sued NATO over the bombing of a building in her father's compound which she alleged killed her brother, Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, and her own infant daughter. She