Efforts to win power in Libya by Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the son of the country’s late ousted dictator Moammar Qaddafi, won’t succeed, according to the man who’s been at the center of Kremlin-backed efforts to support him. Maxim Shugaley acts as a political consultant for Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian tycoon close to President Vladimir Putin. He spent 18 months in a Libyan jail accused by the government of plotting to interfere in Libya’s presidential elections in Qaddafi’s favor. The Kremlin pushed for his release. Now, Shugaley, 55, says he’s gloomy about Qaddafi’s prospects of becoming president. “No, he won’t be,” Shugaley said in an interview in Moscow, blaming the U.S. for thwarting Qaddafi’s leadership ambitions, without offering evidence. “He’s an unacceptable figure for the United States — there is a political order against him,” he said. “This would be a unique event in the world — 10 years on […]