Killing a POW? Gaddafi’s last moments (VIDEO)

Published time: October 20, 2011 18:54
Edited time: October 21, 2011 11:09
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A new explicit amateur video released by AP clearly shows that Colonel Gaddafi was caught alive rather than dead.

­The video portrays Gaddafi soon after his arrest in Sirte. The colonel is encircled by the soldiers of the National Transitional Council who are shouting in Arabic, "God is great."

Gaddafi is definitely too weak to walk on his own and his chest and face are covered in blood. Still, the colonel takes some steps and then falls on the ground. The soldiers try to get Gaddafi up and put him in the car. Some of them are clearly grabbing Gaddafi’s hair.

Previously, the media had released pictures showing Gaddafi already dead with a bullet hole in his left temple. Al Jazeera’s video could thus indicate that the colonel was killed by some of the NTC soldiers.

As reported earlier, fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds sustained during his capture after NTC forces took his hometown and stronghold of Sirte. It came shortly after Gaddafi's vehicles which were trying to escape the town were hit by a NATO air strike, forcing Gaddafi and several bodyguards to take refuge in the drain.

French defense chief said French jet fired on Gaddafi convoy, AP reported.

British MP Jeremy Corbyn said that as Gaddafi was captured alive, he should have been treated as prisoner of war, interrogated and put on trial.

It looks that there was an element of mob rule in this, and he was indeed killed in the back of the truck,” he said referring to the video footage of Gaddafi's capture.

And this really does raise some question marks about the command and discipline of the NTC forces and what Libya is going to be like, not just tomorrow, but next month, next year and the next ten years,” he remarked.


According to officials from the National Transitional Council (NTC) there was no order to kill Gaddafi. They stated that the former Libyan leader was fatally wounded when a gunfight between his supporters and government fighters broke out after his capture.

Comments (74)

John (unregistered) 27.10.2011 02:37

R.I.P. Muammar! In memory of hundreds of millions people around the world you would remain as a hero and a real patriot, a patriot who served all his life till the last breath to his nation. 
My condolences to the Kaddafi family for the loss of 12 people, 8 of which were just small kids.

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c.r. sridhar 27.10.2011 02:22

with the assassination of Colonel Gaddafi at the hands of NATO, the Libyan people have freed the oil fields for western exploitation.

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jack (unregistered) 24.10.2011 21:31

This was a disgusting and carefully planned event.  Like Saddam Hussein' s killing - it was designed to send a message to Assad and other leaders that might stand up to the evil of America & Europe... it was telling them to bow down or face a similar fate.  The worry is that when they finish all of these leaders off - where will they turn their attentions?  Will they tell us, for example, that the Irish  are devils with their red hair or that the Belgians are an alien race because they eat too much chocolate and therefore these people must be exterminated?  There is an answer to this barbarity however... pray, pray, pray.

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