Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron fist for over 40 years, was killed Thursday after being on the run for some two months when he repeatedly vowed to keep fighting until death.
The eccentric 69-year-old, who preached a strange cocktail of ideology based on Islam and socialism, died in his hometown Sirte, apparently after being wounded in the legs.
Gaddafi was alive when captured, shows YouTube videoMuammar Gaddafi was alive when he was captured by the National Transitional Council fighters in his hometown Sirte shows a video on YouTube.
The video appears to show Gaddafi moments after his arrest, said washingtonpost.com. It seems to capture the final moments of the man who ruled Libya for 42 years, after coming to power in a bloodless coup in 1969.
The video is shaky and shows fighters crowding around a bloodied Gaddafi.
After Gaddafi, can US keep Libya at arm's length?
The death of Muammar Gaddafi after months of US and NATO airstrikes may provide the Obama administration a needed foreign policy coup, but it is unlikely to alter the US quest to keep Libya at arm's length.
Leaders of European nations that rallied support for a NATO campaign launched in March hailed the news Gaddafi had been killed in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, capping months of bloody conflict between Gaddafi loyalists and Western-backed rebels.
That contrasted with the circumspect tone in Washington, where military leaders from the start voiced skepticism about a third war in a Muslim country and where budget woes fueled ambivalence toward involvement in a nation with scant US interests.
Gaddafi's death to hasten return of Libyan oilLibya's oil chief said the death of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi and an end to NATO'S bombing campaign would hasten the return of the OPEC country's oil to world markets by improving road links and quelling security concerns.
"This will improve transport to fields and we can now concentrate on rebuilding the sector," the chairman of the National Oil Company, Nouri Berouin, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.
The oil chief said daily output had risen to 430,000 barrels per day after two more eastern oil fields operated by Benghazi-based Agoco had successfully been restarted following delays last week.
Gaddafi caught hiding like a 'rat'
Muammar Gaddafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42-years of one-man rule "rats", but in the end it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of rubbish and filth.
"He called us rats, but look where we found him," said Ahmed Al Sahati, a 27-year-old government fighter, standing next to two stinking drainage pipes under a six-lane highway.
Government fighters, video evidence and the scenes of sheer carnage nearby told the story of the dictator's final hours.
The eccentric 69-year-old, who preached a strange cocktail of ideology based on Islam and socialism, died in his hometown Sirte, apparently after being wounded in the legs.
Photos: Gaddafi's last moments
Gaddafi was alive when captured, shows YouTube videoMuammar Gaddafi was alive when he was captured by the National Transitional Council fighters in his hometown Sirte shows a video on YouTube.
The video appears to show Gaddafi moments after his arrest, said washingtonpost.com. It seems to capture the final moments of the man who ruled Libya for 42 years, after coming to power in a bloodless coup in 1969.
The video is shaky and shows fighters crowding around a bloodied Gaddafi.
After Gaddafi, can US keep Libya at arm's length?
The death of Muammar Gaddafi after months of US and NATO airstrikes may provide the Obama administration a needed foreign policy coup, but it is unlikely to alter the US quest to keep Libya at arm's length.
Leaders of European nations that rallied support for a NATO campaign launched in March hailed the news Gaddafi had been killed in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, capping months of bloody conflict between Gaddafi loyalists and Western-backed rebels.
That contrasted with the circumspect tone in Washington, where military leaders from the start voiced skepticism about a third war in a Muslim country and where budget woes fueled ambivalence toward involvement in a nation with scant US interests.
Gaddafi's death to hasten return of Libyan oilLibya's oil chief said the death of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi and an end to NATO'S bombing campaign would hasten the return of the OPEC country's oil to world markets by improving road links and quelling security concerns.
"This will improve transport to fields and we can now concentrate on rebuilding the sector," the chairman of the National Oil Company, Nouri Berouin, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.
The oil chief said daily output had risen to 430,000 barrels per day after two more eastern oil fields operated by Benghazi-based Agoco had successfully been restarted following delays last week.
Gaddafi caught hiding like a 'rat'
Muammar Gaddafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42-years of one-man rule "rats", but in the end it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of rubbish and filth.
"He called us rats, but look where we found him," said Ahmed Al Sahati, a 27-year-old government fighter, standing next to two stinking drainage pipes under a six-lane highway.
Government fighters, video evidence and the scenes of sheer carnage nearby told the story of the dictator's final hours.
City of Gaddafi's birth and death buried under rubble
For the world's less-scrupulous dignitaries, officials and "high-ups" of various stripes, a trip to Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte was a treat.
They were fed like royalty, slept on fluffy pillows and some of the luckier ones even left with pockets bulging with 100 dollar bills.
"He wanted to impress us," a senior African Union official told Reuters. "The 'King of Kings' behaviour. Part of it was creating this city of his own and having dreams of it being the capital of Africa."
Those dreams lay in ruins on Thursday, along with much of the city where Gaddafi was born and died, killed by fighters who overran his final bastion after two months of relentless bombardment from Libyan interim government forces.
For the world's less-scrupulous dignitaries, officials and "high-ups" of various stripes, a trip to Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte was a treat.
They were fed like royalty, slept on fluffy pillows and some of the luckier ones even left with pockets bulging with 100 dollar bills.
"He wanted to impress us," a senior African Union official told Reuters. "The 'King of Kings' behaviour. Part of it was creating this city of his own and having dreams of it being the capital of Africa."
Those dreams lay in ruins on Thursday, along with much of the city where Gaddafi was born and died, killed by fighters who overran his final bastion after two months of relentless bombardment from Libyan interim government forces.
Gaddafi shown alive, manhandled before death
Al Jazeera television showed images of Muammar Gaddafi, apparently wounded but still alive when he was captured.
Gaddafi was shown being manhandled by a group of fighters and appearing to struggle against them at one point. He was shown with a bloodied face and being pushed against a car and being struck on the head by a pistol.
ANALYSIS - Libya's next tests: Big expectations, power plays
Jockeying for power among Libya's well-armed and fractious new leadership may intensify after the death of deposed autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, an anxious and, for many, joyous moment in a country hungry for stability and impatient to swap the bullet for the ballot box.
Al Jazeera television showed images of Muammar Gaddafi, apparently wounded but still alive when he was captured.
Gaddafi was shown being manhandled by a group of fighters and appearing to struggle against them at one point. He was shown with a bloodied face and being pushed against a car and being struck on the head by a pistol.
ANALYSIS - Libya's next tests: Big expectations, power plays
Jockeying for power among Libya's well-armed and fractious new leadership may intensify after the death of deposed autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, an anxious and, for many, joyous moment in a country hungry for stability and impatient to swap the bullet for the ballot box.
Finally, a hunted Gaddafi bleeds to death
Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron fist for over 40 years, was killed Thursday after being on the run for some two months when he repeatedly vowed to keep fighting until death.
The eccentric 69-year-old, who preached a strange cocktail of ideology based on Islam and socialism, died in his hometown Sirte, apparently after being wounded in the legs.
Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron fist for over 40 years, was killed Thursday after being on the run for some two months when he repeatedly vowed to keep fighting until death.
The eccentric 69-year-old, who preached a strange cocktail of ideology based on Islam and socialism, died in his hometown Sirte, apparently after being wounded in the legs.
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