Muammar Gaddafi: Obituary

A senior National Transitional Council official has said that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has died of his wounds after being captured near his hometown of Sirte.

Muammar Gaddafi came to power in 1969 in a coup at the age of 27 and went on to rule Libya for 42 years with an iron fist.

He has left Libya in tatters and despite the vast oil wealth, a vast majority of Libyans still live on about $2 a day and 40 per cent remain unemployed.

Gaddafi wanted to be the leader of the Arab world and modeled himself on Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.

He published the Green Book which established rule of the people but in reality he exercised absolute power.

The former Libyan leader was accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 in Scotland, a charge he always denied. After this Libya remained under internatinal isolation for years.

When the uprising gathered momentum earlier this year he blamed everyone, from US to al-Qaeda, and called the protesters rats and cats of Libya.

Many will remember Gaddafi as the leader who set Libya back by many years.

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[sasua741]

@CrashAreYouReady So the WHOLE WORLD is lying apart from a man who is repoonsible for deaths of 30,000 people and became the most hated man in Libya... You are mental... The people demanded the removal of the regime... they wanted freedom they didnt want to be run by ONE MAN FOR 42 YEARS..

[shzywansui]

By the way, Hanna Gaddafi was not killed in the 1986 air raids. She is alive today.

[jsgdk]

Death to Gaddafi.. long live Al-queda(theyre in power in libya now, theyre our friends)

[impieceofcake]

@idricool You're an eternally whining idiot. Now you're an criminal consequently let wipe your wet mouth and stop whining.

[killersheik]

Al Jewzeera is officially an American channel

[mathematics64]

Gaddafi was slaughtered like a RAT.

[idricool]

Why are there so many pro-Gaddafi fuckers who are posting comments months after he died ?

Do you idiots know what it's like to live under dictatorship where you don't have a say who your leader can be ?

Gaddafi killed a lot of children and innocent men and women.

I hope I meet one of you pro-Gaddafi fuckers so I can shoot you with my M4.

[shzywansui]

@Patriot1418 Of course they do, why else would they kill him the way they did?

[Patriot1418]

@shzywansui hate Gaddafi ? :D:D

[Askarzhanchik]

Allah cried when Gaddafi was killed