[5][6][2] He was considered a pro-free market reformer aligned with Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam within the Libyan ruling elite.

[1][2] According to Francois Bechis of the Italian newspaper Libero, Mismari gave extensive information while under French custody, claimed that he had connections within Tunisian dissidents, pinpointed the weaknesses of the Gaddafi regime, and was formally seeking asylum in France.

[13] On 16 December 2010, Gaddafi sent Abdallah Mansour, the head of Libyan state media, to lure Mismari back to Libya.

[14][6] On 23 December 2010, a delegation of anti-Gaddafi Libyans (Farj Charrani, Fathi Boukhris, and Ali Ounes Mansouri) arrived in Paris to dine with Mismari, yet sources close to Mismari claimed he had resumed his "normal functions" as Head of Protocol and was preparing to return to Libya.

[18] In February 2011, one of Gaddafi's sons, Mutassim, allegedly came to Paris to ask him to return to Libya to no avail and Mismari subsequently tendered his resignation as Chief of Protocol from exile.

[20] In March 2011, Mismari predicted that Gaddafi would fight to the end in the Libyan Civil War rather than step down, commit suicide, or go into exile.

[26][27][28][29] Mismari was named in Cojean's book Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya.

[27] In 2014, Mismari was interviewed by BBC for the documentary “Mad Dog – Qaddafi’s Secret World," where he alleged that Gaddafi was "terribly sexually deviant", kept underaged male and female sex slaves, and kept the body of Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia, former Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a freezer.