Colonel Gaddafi dead Video of former Libya leader's bloodied body emerges as Sirte fallS

Gaddafi killed as Libya's revolt takes hometown معمر القذافي قتل
Branded a "mad dog" by Ronald Reagan, Colonel Gaddafi has been associated with some of the most notorious terrorist atrocities of the pre-9/11 era.
(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi is dead, Libya's new leaders said, killed by fighters who overran his hometown and final bastion on Thursday. His bloodied body was stripped and displayed around the world from cellphone video.

Senior officials in the interim government, which ended his 42-year rule two months ago but had labored to subdue thousands of diehard loyalists, said his death opened the way for a declaration of "liberation" after eight months of war.

His body was expected in the long-standing rebel stronghold of Misrata, officials said as their Western sponsors held off from confirming that Gaddafi, a self-styled king of kings whom they had lately courted after decades of enmity, was dead at 69.

After Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed his demise, the new national flag, resurrected by rebels who forced Gaddafi from his capital Tripoli in August, filled streets and squares as jubilant crowds whooped for joy and fired in the air.

In Sirte, a one-time fishing village and Gaddafi's hometown that grandiose schemes had styled a new "capital of Africa," fighters danced, brandishing a golden pistol they said they had taken from Gaddafi.

Accounts were hazy of his final hours, which also appeared to have cost the lives of senior aides. But top officials of the National Transitional Council, including Abdel Majid Mlegta, said he had died of wounds sustained in clashes.

FINAL HOURS

One possible description, pieced together from various sources, suggests that Gaddafi may have tried to break out of his final redoubt at dawn in a convoy of vehicles after weeks of dogged resistance. However, he was stopped by a NATO airstrike and captured, possibly three or four hours later, after gunbattles with NTC fighters who found him hiding in a drainage culvert.

NATO said its warplanes fired on a convoy near Sirte about 8:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EDT), striking two military vehicles in the group, but could not confirm that Gaddafi had been a passenger.

Accounts from his enemies suggested his capture, and death soon after from wounds, may have taken place around noon.

One of Gaddafi's sons, heir-apparent Saif al-Islam, was at large, they believed.

NTC official Mlegta told Reuters that Gaddafi had been wounded in both legs early in the morning as he tried to flee in the convoy which NATO warplanes attacked


"He was also hit in his head," he said. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."

There was no shortage of NTC fighters in Sirte claiming to have seen him die, though many accounts were conflicting. Libyan television carried video of two drainage pipes, about a meter across, where it said fighters had cornered a man who long inspired both fear and admiration around the world.

After February's uprising in the long discontented east of the country around Benghazi -- inspired by the Arab Spring movements that overthrew the leaders of neighboring Tunisia and Egypt -- the revolt against Gaddafi ground slowly across the country before a dramatic turn saw Tripoli fall in August.

LIBERATION

An announcement of final liberation was expected as the chairman of the NTC prepared to address the nation of six million. They now face the challenge of turning oil wealth once monopolized by Gaddafi and his clan into a democracy that can heal an array of tribal, ethnic and regional divisions he exploited.

The two months since the fall of Tripoli have tested the nerves of the motley alliance of anti-Gaddafi forces and their Western and Arab backers, who had begun to question the ability of the NTC forces to root out diehard Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte and a couple of other towns.

Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was toppled by rebel forces on August 23, a week short of the 42nd anniversary of the military coup which brought him to power in 1969.

NTC fighters hoisted the red, black and green national flag above a large utilities building in the center of a newly-captured Sirte neighborhood and celebratory gunfire broke out among their ecstatic and relieved comrades.

Hundreds of NTC troops had surrounded the Mediterranean coastal town for weeks in a chaotic struggle that killed and wounded scores of the besieging forces and an unknown number of defenders.

NTC fighters said there were a large number of corpses inside the last redoubts of the Gaddafi troops. It was not immediately possible to verify that information.

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[oneofusall]

Well, basically Libya gave the oil away... Killed the man who was the only one who could stop the US from taking it. Now Libyans will get the true taste of democracy! Enjoy...

[SISTIC1]

@SilverAtomic -WELL SAID SilverAtomic, ALL THESE UNEDUCATED SPASTICS, VOMITING CRAP ON YOUTUBE NEED LESSONS IN HISTORY. MOST OF THEM ARE OUTSIDERS FORCING THERE BENT, UNEDUCATED CRAP ON THE NET. IF YOUR NOT LIBYAN, YOUR COMMENT'S FLAWED AND USELESS!

Take care SilverAtomic..

[MrBartinli7474]

not the comfort of her own does not kill you too much to look for you

kaddafiyi

[sobriquet1999]

@SISTIC1 I wish that were true, but mark my words within 2 yr Libya will either be in the middle of a tribal civil war or controled by groups run by the Muslim brootherhood and it's allied organizations. Either way Libya will turn on the USA and be burning our flags in the streets.

[sobriquet1999]

@Nasserrrrrrrrrr Ok 1st Israel is a recognised state with claims to the region going back 4,000yr. 2nd Israel has been offering peace to the Palestinans for decades and the Palestinans keep refusing because they don't want peace they want VICTORY.(ie the extermination of Israel and the Jewish People) 3nd and more importantly what does Israel have to do with Gaddafi?

[SISTIC1]

There's a large unfinished mosque in Tripoli (Bin-Ashour), gaddafi's been building for 20 years, yes"20 years". He hasn't even finished it yet, 20 fucking years and it aint even finished!!!! While in Niger, he's built "and finished" an amaizing mosque, named after him....

In Pakistan, he's built a new stadium, while in Libya, we still do with a stadium built from the king Idriss era.

[SISTIC1]

- Sorry mate, are you Libyan? if not, than you don't have a clue..

Oil, yes, we will give it free to the UK, France, the US and, who ever helped us gain our Independence, it's the least we can do... We have more than we need so, why not give them some. They helped us, we help them!!!

Gaddafi squandered billions & billions of Libyan dollars on African nations, why? I don't have a clue..

[SISTIC1]

Gaddafi down, Moussa koussa next.........

[SISTIC1]

@SilverAtomic -FREE LIBYA, FOREVER.........

[SISTIC1]

@bjchinbaa -RIP my ass....

He got what God ordained, why? Because he deserved it!  Killing so many in his time..... Now, he has hell to look forward to....