Too many powers wanted Gaddafi dead - NTC head

Published time: March 26, 2012 08:45
Edited time: March 26, 2012 13:12
This still image taken from amateur video posted online by GlobalPost and obtained by Reuters, October 21, 2011, shows former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after his capture by NTC fighters in Sirte (Reuters / GlobalPost via Reuters TV / Handout)
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Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was wanted dead so his secrets would die with him. So insists Mahmoud Jibril, the man who led the NTC uprising to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi’s regime, in an exclusive interview with RT.

­“Too many parties who have real interests that Gaddafi doesn’t talk, that he should be silenced forever,” Mahmoud Jibril told RT, specifying he does not know who exactly killed the Colonel – a foreign entity or Libyans.

“I would love to know who was behind [Colonel Gaddafi’s] killing,” he said.

Jibril told RT the former ruler of Libya Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sent too many contradictory messages, trying to buy time and pretending to have a readiness to share power.

Mahmoud Jibril said he regretted Colonel Gaddafi was not taken alive to face trial, but certain powers that may have wanted him to keep silence due to the secrets he knew.

After months of fierce resistance to NTC militia backed by allied NATO forces, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was captured on October 21, 2011, in his hometown and stronghold of Sirte while trying to escape from encirclement. He was captured alive, but instead of being treated as prisoner of war, interrogated and put on trial, the former ruler of Libya was tortured for several hours and then murdered by a militia mob.

Later, the NTC claimed they never gave an order to kill Colonel Gaddafi. They even stated that at first the former Libyan leader was fatally wounded when a gunfight between his supporters and NTC fighters broke out after his capture.

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Sven (unregistered) 31.03.2012 06:39

To murder Gaddhafi was a lot better for the people like Blair, Sarkozy and others, as he knew too much. If he was flown to The Hague for the Human Rights court he would have had a heart attack before he could have opened his mouth. Maybe this way is even better for him, sparing him the BS from the so called do gooders. He was not murdered by his own people, he was murdered by the mercenaries. Look at the situation today, the normal people wish Gaddhafi was back with all the killings and terror, sponsored by NATO/US. RIP Gaddhafi.

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Layi 28.03.2012 23:20

Yes Gaddafi is dead and we sorrow for his departure not because he has no fault but because those who murdered him are worst off than him and today judge him. We are sad because the muslims have no internal regulatory mechanism to bring the erring among themselves to justice and will always put themselves into the hands of the enemy who will not fail to exploit them. We are sad that a whole nation alongside its wealth and security will be ravaged so that the West  will thrive. And so much more sad that muslim refuse to unite despite all these chaos. But then we are happy that none will escape the Lord retribution. We pray Allah forgive Gaddafi and make his violent end a ransome for his faults ditto his sons, family and friends. We also pray to bring true peace to all muslim lands- Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Lybia, Yemen, Tunisa, Algeria, Egypt, etc 

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Liberated Woman 28.03.2012 14:22

We never heard about Gaddafi's Amazonian Guards and how effectively they defended Gaddafi to the last moments that they swore to do. Are all our liberated sisters given titles and responsibilities that are never fulfilled? Maybe, liberated women are fictions of the West in the same way as the Western democracy, which has been proven to be a current hypocrisy.

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