Just a few moments before his death, former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi told the rebel troops who captured him from a drainage pipe in his hometown of Sirte Thursday: 'Do you know right from wrong?
Reports were initially conflicting, but Gadhafi (Gaddafi) was killed on October 20, 2011 in cross-fire between rebels and loyalist fighters in Libya when the rebels in Gadhafi's birthplace of Sirt attempted to take the ousted colonel, who was wounded, to an ambulance. Libya's interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told TIME that Gadhafi, who was in hiding in a large sewer pipe in Sirt, did not resist arrest but was carrying a small pistol in his holster.
Muammar Gaddafi made his final dash for freedom shortly before dawn prayers. Libya's leader, a few dozen loyal bodyguards and the head of his now non-existent army Abu Bakr Younis Jabr, broke out of the two-month siege of his hometown Sirte and, forming a convoy of six dozen vehicles, raced through the outskirts to the west.
Muammar Gaddafi's body lay in an old meat store on Friday as arguments over a burial, and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya's new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy.
After Moammar Gadhafi of Libya became the latest victim of the Arab Spring uprising, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Iran's leaders may be next.
Libya's National Oil Corporation has summoned Russia's Gazprom to a meeting in Tripoli to discuss what the Libyans said was a breach of investment obligations -- the first sign the new leaders are prepared to renegotiate Gaddafi-era contracts.
On the day his father, Moammar Gadhafi, was shot and killed by revolutionary fighters who overran his hometown of Sirte, Mutassim Gadhafi died, too.
For the small club of companies who trade the food, fuels and metals that keep the world running, the last decade has been sensational. Driven by the rise of Brazil, China, India and other fast-growing economies, the global commodities boom has turbocharged profits at the world's biggest trading houses.
Moammar Gadhafi is dead, killed Oct. 20 by rebel resistance forces in Libya. The former greater-than-god leader was found cowering in a drainage pipe, begging for mercy. Jacqueline Frazier, a Vermont-born attractive blonde, knew this day would come. She was part of the Gadhafi family's inner circle for seven months.
As a despotic autocrat who ruled an oil-rich North African nation for decades, sponsored terrorists, and single-handedly destroyed the civil institutions of an entire state, the name of the former Libyan dictator whose bloodied body was dragged out of a drainage pipe and is expected to be buried today will surely outlive him in historical infamy. The question is, which name?
Moammar Gadhafi is dead, but the actual details of what happened between Gadhafi, alive, being pulled from a sewage pipe and his body arriving in Misrata are still unclear.
Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was captured and killed on Oct. 20 in his hometown of Sirte after a two months hunt by the National Transitional Council forces.
Canada will be contacting its allies in the next few days and arranging for the early end of its Libyan military mission, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday.
The longest-ruling Arab leader in the history, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, met with a humiliating and gory end, when he was executed by a mob of rebel soldiers near his home town of Sirte. The frenzied mob paid no heed to the desperate pleas for life by the Libyan dictator for 42-years.
The death of deposed autocrat Muammar Gaddafi has brought an end to a regime that ruled the country for 42 years. Though the pictures of celebration have been flashed across all media channels, doubts still remain on whether the whole of Libya is rejoicing his death.
Libyan authorities will secretly bury the body of the former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, reports BBC.
Moammar Gadhafi was killed by Libyan revolutionary fighters in his home town of Sirte Thursday, after weeks of fierce battle.
Experts speculate that the country, with ithe biggest reserves in Africa, can return to normal production by the second quarter of next year.
Libyan tyrant Moammar Gadhafi's four-decade long rule came to an end on Thursday as the autocratic ruler was killed by Libyan rebels he once ridiculed as rats. An autocrat who was condemned for tyrannizing his own people and sponsoring terrorism out of the country, Gadhafi will be remembered not only for his cruelty, but also for being an unmatched weirdo.
Contradicting the account of Moammar Gadhafi's death given by acting Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, the Misrata Military Council, which now has his body, said Friday that Gadhafi was not shot dead.
Moammar Gadhafi could give any leader a run for their money when it comes to the number of women he surrounded himself with.
The dictator's once-powerful family is now scattered to various fates.
