'Send this to Assad': New shock video shows rebels mocking Gaddafi body

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Published time: July 17, 2012 12:46
Edited time: July 17, 2012 17:51

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A shocking video showing deposed Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi shortly after his death has appeared on YouTube. A Syrian activist tweeted the video, recommending that embattled President Assad watch it.

The new video shows the bloodstained shirtless body of the deceased leader surrounded by armed men in the back of a vehicle. The militants then lift Gaddafi’s limp body onto a stretcher.

Twitter user Sami al Hamwi uploaded the video to his account, adding the caption “someone needs to send Assad this.”

Although the footage has not been independently verified, it is dated October 20, the day that the leader was captured and killed by rebels.

The city of Sirte became the epicenter of the Libyan conflict and was eventually surrounded by National Transitional Council forces aiming to crush the vestiges of the pro-Gaddafi resistance.

A previous video was disseminated in October of last year shortly after the Colonel was arrested in the city of Sirte. The footage showed the former-dictator covered in blood, barely able to walk and being manhandled by a group of soldiers from the National Transitional Council.

The brutality of the ousted leader’s passing drew international condemnation and a flood of demands for the opening of an investigation into the circumstances of his death.

After initial strong rhetoric branding Gaddafi’s death as a possible war crime, investigations into the former leader’s killing never came to fruition.

The Syria connection

Concerns have been voiced by the international community that the Syrian conflict will go the same way as Libya.

The uprisings against Syrian President Bashar al Assad has been raging across the country for the past 16 months, claiming more than 10,000 lives according to UN estimates.

In recent months the conflict has become increasingly militarized, with reports of al-Qaeda militants filtering into Syria from neighboring countries.

The international community has thus far been unable to agree on a resolution to the Syrian crisis.

Western political rhetoric calls for the removal of President Assad, while Russia and China insist it is up to the Syrian people to decide the fate of their country.

UN special envoy to Syria Kofi Annan has drawn up a plan that stipulates a transitional government with members of the opposition incorporated. However, Syrian rebels have categorically refused to accept any resolution that does not call for the immediate removal of Assad.

Meanwhile, the latest reports from Syria say that fighting between rebel and government forces has reached the Syrian capital of Damascus in what the opposition has dubbed the “final battle.”

RT reports an increased military presence on the streets of Damascus and sporadic gunfire and blasts close to the city center.

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willie r. adams jr (unregistered) 04.11.2012 22:08

I never saw a gun in Mr Morramars hand except one night while he was on the farm. And while growing up all I ever saw was him in a parade or on his farm planting farm. To his sons all I can say is "If their god did not want them (the rebels) butchered he would not have made them theiving, pirate, animals.

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Alpha Male 1 (unregistered) 03.10.2012 05:31

The U.S.A. is the arch-deceiver along with Britain, France, Germany are the "axis of evil" and have terrorized this planet for over 500 years. Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy and Merkel are war criminals.
The U.S.A. shows a pattern of attacking tiny nations who they think they can defeat easily, but recent history shows us that the rice farmers of Korea and Viet Nam defeat the "paper tiger" as Chairman Mao referred to the U.S.A. Now the U.S.A. is again facing defeat by the derogatory racist labels of white Americans so-called sand "N" and towelheads in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The buffoon prime minister of Israel Netanyahu wants the U.S.A. to fight another proxy war with Iran that would be paid for by U.S.A. taxpayers and U.S.A. soldiers lives while he and other Zionist's continue to enrich themselves from the welfare aid to Israel yearly from the US.A. The Zionist's have used of their scare of some false existential threat from the Islamic Republic Iran to con and bribe each president and congressional representative for money. Every war fought in the Middle East since 1948 has been caused by these Zionist bandits and thieves based on lies. The original lie told is that the Germans tried to exterminate them. But history shows that between 600,000 to 1,000,000 Jews served in the Nazi military, ancillary and auxillary services. Many of Hitler's top generals were Jewish. So how could a so-called extermination of the Jews take place with that many Jewish soldiers in the Nazi military? The Zionist's have done such a diabolical job of stifling out any inquiry into what really happened in Germany during that era that any German and certain others from other European nations even questioning the validity of the the so-called holocaust are jailed and fined. What are they trying to hide?

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deen (unregistered) 21.07.2012 08:35

While I enjoy watching RT because it is always giving the other side of the story, the total imbalance and bias in this Syrian coverage almost makes me puke. The other day the RT reporter seemed like she was sobbing like a cry baby 'the residents of Damascus are complaining about how the peace in their lives has gone since the terrorist uprising' or the likes. Its war against a tyrant dog who represents a minority and has ruled longer then should have. Bashar the Allawite Dog is going to be dead soon and Russia will be booted out because they couldnt figure out which was the winning side 'AGAIN'. Although I am pro-Russia in general, their stance of Syria and support for the Allawite dogs will only lose them support in the Muslim world.

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