Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley reports from Sirte on Gaddafi's capture

Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year reign in Libya ended in District 2 of his hometown, Sirte.

In an area where all of the buildings are riddled with bullet holes, the toppled Libyan leader tried to flee when confronted by NTC fighters, but was soon pinned to the ground and nearly stripped naked before reportedly dying in a convoy on the way to Misrata.

Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley reports from District 2 in Sirte.

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[changetomorrowtoday]

Gaddafi's most powerful force is now only on the internet.

[k1029384756a]

They captured him, stripped naked and shot to death. And the reporter looks and sounds happy. Black civilians at 1:00 are just out of the showers, starch clean... Lining up for execution. Am I the only one who thinks this report and the whole Lybia coverage is sick?

[RUSDarling]

This is fucking boolshit.....

[DYORPEEPS]

Welcome to the new NATO Libya. Controlled by racist westerners who recruit mobs to slaughter anyone, especially if they're black.

[cellcity74]

Stripped naked and shot to death, very sick WHERE IS UN ? where is international court ?

[arabellaboy]

@k1029384756a 1.How do you know that they are civilians not mercenary fighters?

2.How do you know that they will be executed not deported or whatever ?

[raymondissmart11]

@k1029384756a If at any point it seems I am insulting Libyan, I don't mean to. You must understand that in Africa and the Middle East, they have a slightly different culture and sentiment compared to Developed nations. War always causes us to regress from civility and resort to uncivilized acts. How ever less advanced the culture(Developing ideas of Civil Rights, Women Rights->Ex. Arranged Marriages, Gay Rights), the more prevalent and likely the possibility of us going backwards during war.

[sonoki82]

I wonder what happened to Gaddafi's all-female bodyguard detachment. He must have spent a fortune hiring out those women over all these years and one would assume that they would be both highly trained and prepared to defend him to the death.

[mokyboy11]

@martyr84 I hope you're right, I'm algerian and I trully hope one day arab countries will get together and protect their territories and help each other...just like european union

[heomak]

@k1029384756a exactly..those black africans seem to be wearing clean cothes(meaning they prolly weren't fighting before they were captured by the libyan fighters)....there is a huge chance they were just ordinary civilian folks & not gadhafi's mercenaries....i wonder what's gonna happen to them or has something already happened?

[PawnBACM]

@magnus099 I know. I certainly wouldn't begrudge a country's people ridding itself of a despot, but his reign, etc. consisted of many complexities separate and apart from his individual tyranny. About half of the responses from the english-speakers in the vid upload lineup just seem weird too; almost canned. That says nothing for if they intend on executing everyone they have set the bar pretty high already; there might no trials at all. Democracy? America's not been a very good example lately.