Showing posts with label Muammar Gaddafi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muammar Gaddafi. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Muammar Gaddafi killed in Sirte PHOTO

Picture of where the NTC have said they found Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte

Picture of where the NTC have said they found Muammar #Gaddafi in Sirte. (AFP Photo)
Picture of where the NTC have said they found Muammar #Gaddafi in Sirte. (AFP Photo)

Gaddafi's vehicles tried to get out of the town, were hit by a Nato airstrike

On the Daily Telegraph's live blog, reporter Ben Farmer says he has has been to the site in Sirte where Gaddafi was reportedly captured. He says Gaddafi was "cornered in a drain underneath a road in open countryside to the west of the city of Sirte". Gaddafi's vehicles tried to get out of the town, were hit by a Nato airstrike, and Gaddafi and several bodyguards took refuge in a drain, where they were found by NTC fighters. The Telegraph blog has an AFP picture of the drain.

Muammar Gaddafi was shot in the head !!!

Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Muammar Gaddafi was shot in the head after fighters surrounded the hole he was found hiding in. They then took him to Misrata.

Somebody shot him with a 9mm

An NTC soldier is telling Sky News: "Somebody shot him with a 9mm."
Another soldier says he was shot in the belly.
This happened at 12.30, the soldiers say - but it is unclear if they mean am or pm.
Former defence minister Abu Bakr Yunis was the only one with him, the soldier says.
The other soldier says he saw it with his own eyes and that he hit Gaddafi with a shoe - a sign of severe disrespect in the Middle East.
None of this can be confirmed yet, and I have to say they were not the most convincing witnesses.

Muammar Gaddafi's capture PHOTO

The picture purportedly showing Muammar Gaddafi's capture we posted earlier seems to come from a video on a mobile phone. AFP has sent through another frame from the same video.
An image purportedly showing Muammar Gaddafi's capture in Sirte, Libya on 20 October 2011 Photograph: Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images Apologies - it is a graphic image. We cannot confirm that it shows his capture.