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Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Gaddafi killed in hometown, Libya eyes future | 20 Oct 2011 Obama: Gaddafi death is warning to iron-fist rulers | 20 Oct 2011 Venezuela's Chavez declares himself free of cancer 20 Oct 2011 Gaddafi's death - who pulled the trigger? | 20 Oct 2011 TV footage shows Libya fighters hauling Gaddafi body | 20 Oct 2011 Discussed 155 Gaddafi captured as he fled Sirte: NTC official 121 Strike shuts down Greece before austerity vote 100 Obama jobs roadshow seeks to tap anti-Wall St anger Watched Graphic video shows Gaddafi alive, manhandled before death Thu, Oct 20 2011 Gaddafi captured, covered in blood Thu, Oct 20 2011 The hunt for Gaddafi in 60 seconds Thu, Oct 20 2011 Gaddafi killed in hometown, Libya eyes future Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Libyan PM says Gaddafi died from bullet to head Thu, Oct 20 2011 After turbulent ties, U.S. relief at Gaddafi demise Thu, Oct 20 2011 Gaddafi's death - who pulled the trigger? 2:25am EDT U.S. drone took part in Libya strikes, hit unclear Thu, Oct 20 2011 Analysis: Libya's next tests - Big expectations, power plays Thu, Oct 20 2011 Body of Gaddafi son put on display in Misrata house Thu, Oct 20 2011 Gaddafi's death to hasten return of Libyan oil Thu, Oct 20 2011 Arabs see Gaddafi's death as message to rulers Thu, Oct 20 2011 City of Gaddafi's birth and death buried under rubble Thu, Oct 20 2011 Justice served by Gaddafi death, Lockerbie families say Thu, Oct 20 2011 China urges "inclusive" political transition in Libya 12:15am EDT Analysis & Opinion Libya’s democracy has a real chance Gaddafi death could add momentum to Arab Spring Related Topics World » Italy » Libya » Related Video Gaddafi captured, covered in blood Thu, Oct 20 2011 Gaddafi loyalists arrested by NTC Gaddafi death ends era of "iron fist" rule: Obama World leaders weigh in on Gaddafi's death The hunt for Gaddafi in 60 seconds NTC fighters brandish Gaddafi's golden gun A look back at the Gaddafi era Rebels celebrate Gaddafi's capture Libya rebel forces now must face each other: Stratfor analyst Libya post-Gaddafi transition will take years, says expert 1 of 25. Fighters with Libya's interim government celebrate at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli October 20, 2011. Muammar Gaddafi was killed by Libyans, succumbing to wounds, some seemingly inflicted after his capture by fighters who overran his last redoubt on Thursday in his hometown of Sirte. Credit: Reuters/Suhaib Salem By Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor SIRTE, Libya | Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:41am EDT SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi was killed after being captured by the Libyan fighters he once scorned as "rats," cornered and shot in the head after they overran his last bastion of resistance in his hometown of Sirte. His body, bloodied, half naked, Gaddafi's trademark long curls hanging limp around a rarely seen bald spot, was delivered, a prize of war, to Misrata, the city west of Sirte whose siege and months of suffering at the hands of Gaddafi's artillery and snipers made it a symbol of the rebel cause. A quick and secret burial was due later on Friday. "It's time to start a new Libya, a united Libya," Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril declared. "One people, one future." A formal announcement of Libya's liberation, which will set the clock ticking on a timeline to elections, would be made on Saturday, Libyan officials said. Two months after Western-backed rebels ended 42 years of eccentric one-man rule by capturing the capital Tripoli, his death ended a nervous hiatus for the new interim government. President Barack Obama, in a veiled dig at the Syrian and other leaders resisting the democrats of the Arab Spring, declared "the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end." But Gaddafi's death is a setback to campaigners seeking the full truth about the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie in Scotland of Pan Am flight 103 which claimed 270 lives, mainly Americans, and for which one of Gaddafi's agents was convicted. Jim Swire, the father of one of the Lockerbie victims, said: "There is much still to be resolved and we may now have lost an opportunity for getting nearer the truth." "That's for Lockerbie," said the front-page headline in the Sun, Britain's best selling daily newspaper. Kathy Tedeschi, whose first husband Bill Daniels died in the atrocity said of Gaddafi: "I hope he's in hell with Hitler." Confusion over exactly how Gaddafi died was a reminder of the challenge Libyans face to now summon order out of the armed chaos that is the legacy of eight months of grinding conflict. The killing or capture of senior aides, including possibly two sons, as an armored convoy braved NATO air strikes in a desperate bid to break out of Sirte, may ease fears of diehards regrouping elsewhere - though cellphone video, apparently of Gaddafi alive and being beaten, may inflame his sympathizers. As news of Gaddafi's demise spread, people poured into the streets in jubilation. Joyous fighters fired their weapons in the air, shouting "Allahu Akbar." Others wrote graffiti on the parapets of the highway outside Sirte. One said simply: "Gaddafi was captured here." Jibril, reading what he said was a post-mortem report, said Gaddafi was hauled unresisting from a "sewage pipe." He was then shot in the arm and put in a truck which was "caught in crossfire" as it ferried the 69-year-old to hospital. "He was hit by a bullet in the head," Jibril said on Thursday, adding it was unclear which side had fired the fatal shot. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on a visit to Afghanistan, received first news of Gaddafi's capture in a phone message. "Wow," Clinton exclaimed, looking into a smart phone handed to her by an aide in Kabul. "Unconfirmed," she said, explaining to those around her. "Unconfirmed reports about Gaddafi being captured." Speaking in Islamabad on Friday, Clinton said Gaddafi's death marked the start of a "new era" for the Libyan people. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who spearheaded a Franco-British move in NATO to back the revolt against Gaddafi, alluded to fears that, without the glue of hatred for Gaddafi, the new Libya could descend, like Saddam Hussein's Iraq, into bloody factionalism: "The liberation of Sirte must signal ... the start of a process ... to establish a democratic system in which all groups in the country have their place and where fundamental freedoms are guaranteed," he said. Nabil Elaraby, chief of the Arab League which in March had given NATO actions a regional seal of approval when it backed a no-fly zone over Libya targeted at Gaddafi forces, called for unity. Libyans should "overcome the wounds of the past, look toward the future away from sentiments of hatred and revenge," Egypt's state news agency MENA reported him as saying. China, which had strained relations with the NTC after Beijing's frosty reaction to NATO-led airstrikes and attempts by Chinese firms to sell Gaddafi weapons, but which now has better ties, echoed calls for unity. It said there was a need for "an inclusive political process." NATO, keen to portray the victory as that of the Libyans themselves, said it would wind down its military mission. "KEEP HIM ALIVE" The circumstances of the death of Gaddafi, who had vowed to go down fighting, remained obscure. Jerky video showed a man with Gaddafi's distinctive long, curly hair, bloodied and staggering under blows from armed men, apparently NTC fighters. The brief footage showed him being hauled by his hair from the hood of a truck. To the shouts of someone saying "Keep him alive," he disappears from view and gunshots ring out. "While he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed him," a senior source in the NTC told Reuters before Jibril spoke of crossfire. "He might have been resisting." The leader of Gaddafi's personal bodyguards said the former strongman had survived an airstrike on his convoy. "I was with Gaddafi and Abu Bakr Younis Jabr (head of Gaddafi's army) and about four volunteer soldiers," Mansour Daou told al Arabiya television. He said he had not witnessed the final moments of his leader because he had fallen unconscious from a wound. Officials said Gaddafi's son Mo'tassim, also seen bleeding but alive in a video, had also died. Another son, heir-apparent Saif al-Islam, was variously reported to be surrounded, captured or killed as conflicting accounts of the day's events crackled around networks of NTC fighters rejoicing in Sirte. In Benghazi, where in February Gaddafi disdainfully said he would hunt down the "rats" who had emulated their Tunisian and Egyptian neighbors by rising up against an unloved autocrat, thousands took to the streets, loosing off weapons and dancing under the old tricolor flag revived by Gaddafi's opponents. Mansour el Ferjani, 49, a Benghazi bank clerk and father of five posed his nine-year-old son for a photograph holding a Kalashnikov rifle: "Don't think I will give this gun to my son," he said. "Now that the war is over we must give up our weapons and the children must go to school. Accounts were hazy of Gaddafi's final hours, as befitted a man who retained an aura of mystery in the desert down the decades as he first tormented "colonial" Western powers by sponsoring militant bomb-makers from the IRA to the PLO and then embraced the likes of Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi in return for investment in Libya's extensive oil and gas fields. There was no shortage of fighters willing to claim they saw Gaddafi, who long vowed to die in battle, cringing below ground, like Saddam eight years ago, and pleading for his life. One description, pieced together from various sources, suggests Gaddafi tried to break out of his final redoubt at dawn in a convoy of vehicles after weeks of dogged resistance. However, he was stopped by a French air strike and captured, possibly some hours later, after gun battles with NTC fighters who found him hiding in a drainage culvert. NATO said its warplanes fired on a convoy near Sirte about 8:30 a.m. (0630 GMT), striking two military vehicles in the group, but could not confirm that Gaddafi had been a passenger. France later said its jets had halted the convoy. (Additional reporting by Taha Zargoun in Sirte, Barry Malone, Yasmine Saleh and Jessica Donati in Tripoli, Brian Rohan in Benghazi, Jon Hemming in Tunis, Edmund Blair and Yasmine Saleh in Cairo, Samia Nakhoul in Amman, Christian Lowe in Algiers, Tim Castle, Peter Apps and William Maclean in London, David Brunnstrom in Brussels, Alister Bull, Jeff Mason and Laura MacInnis in Washington and Vicky Buffery in Paris; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Giles Elgood and Rosalind Russell) World Italy Libya Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (5) Intriped wrote: When the frozen funds are set free they need to refund the bankroll for this venture to all involved. No excuses! Oct 20, 2011 11:23pm EDT -- Report as abuse Andss wrote: Libya has a leader, a hero. Mu`hammar. Now he was killed. Hope its fake.. just a fake.. Oct 20, 2011 11:29pm EDT -- Report as abuse Branwen wrote: let me see, ok Reuters works for NATO? just wondering. now they can all cash in on construction contracts after destroying the country. oh ya and also cash in on their propped up new Islamist regime through oil wealth. what a great crime, NATO lied the whole way through and the MSM sold the whole thing. Oct 20, 2011 12:00am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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