Moammar Gadhafi is Dead – Killed in Battle
The prime minister of Libya and dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, has been reported dead. According to the Associated Press, “His death on Thursday at age 69 – confirmed by Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril – came as Libyan fighters defeated Gadhafi’s last holdouts in his hometown of Sirte, the last major site of resistance in the country in an eight-month civil war.”
Aside from Moammar Gadhafi, his son, Muatassim, a former national security adviser, was also killed in Sirte on Thursday.
Libyan fighters first capture the leader and he later died of injuries. Reuters reports a different story:
A spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Benghazi, Jalal al-Galal, said a doctor who examined the fallen strongman in Misrata found he had been shot in the head and abdomen. Jerky video obtained from Sirte showed a man looking like Gaddafi, with distinctive long, curly hair, bloodied and staggering under blows from armed men, apparently NTC fighters.
The brief footage shows him being hauled by his hair from the hood of a truck. To the shouts of someone saying “Keep him alive”, he disappears from view and gunshots are heard.
“They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed him,” one senior source in the NTC told Reuters. “He might have been resisting.”
Video: Looking Back at Gadhafi’s Brutality: