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5:18pm: A Reuters witness saw a video on Thursday of the captured son of Muammar Gaddafi, Mo’tassim, lying on a bed and covered in blood, but alive. Mo’tassim was bearded and wearing a bloody singlet, wounded but clearly alive at the time the video was taken.
4:00pm: Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam is believed to be still at large in Libya’s desert, a member of the National Transitional Council said on Thursday after NTC officials said the former Libyan leader had been found and killed.
Abdelmajid Saif al-Nasr told Al Jazeera that Saif al-Islam, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, was last known to have been in the area of Bani Walid and was believed to be “in the desert” around the town.
“But he will be captured soon,” said Saif al-Nasr.
3:55pm: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after rebels toppled his regime two months ago in the Arab Spring’s most violent uprising, was killed Thursday as fighters battling the vestiges of his loyalist forces wrested control of his hometown of Surt, the interim government announced.
12:07pm: Libyan interim government fighters hoisted the new national flag above the centre of Sirte on Thursday after completing their capture of Muammar Gaddafi’s home town, the last serious pocket of resistance by loyalists of the ousted leader.
A Reuters witness said celebratory gunfire broke out among National Transitional Council forces as the flag was raised above a large utilities building in the Mediterranean city, which had been under NTC siege for nearly two months.
11:12am: Libyan transitional government forces said on Thursday they had captured the last positions held by Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists in the deposed leader’s home town of Sirte.
“Sirte has been liberated. There are no Gaddafi forces any more,” said Colonel Yunus Al Abdali, head of operations in the eastern half of the city. “We are now chasing his fighters who are trying to run away.”
Another front line commander confirmed the capture of the Mediterranean coastal city, which was the last remaining significant bastion of pro-Gaddafi fighters almost three months after the ex-leader was overthrown by rebels.
11:05am: Libyan fighters have overrun the last positions of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists holding out in the city of Sirte and the revolutionaries now have all of the ousted leader’s hometown within their hands.
Reporters on the scene say the final push to capture the remaining pro-Gadhafi positions began around 8 a.m. on Thursday and was over after about 90 minutes. Just before the assault, about five carloads of loyalists tried to flee the enclave down the coastal highway but were killed by revolutionaries.
Revolutionaries began searching homes and buildings looking for any Gadhafi fighters who may be hiding there.
9:21am: Mahmoud Jibril, the National Transitional Council’s deputy head, has said that ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be recruiting fighters from other African countries and preparing for a possible counter-revolution, hoping to destabilise Libya’s new government. Wednesday’s comments by Mahmoud Jibril reflected fears that Gaddafi will be able to use friendly relations with neighboring countries cultivated during his more than four decades in power to help him launch a bid to return to power.
“Reports have shown that 68 vehicles with at least eight fighters each crossed the Libyan borders to Mali and Gaddafi is hiding in the southern desert,” Jibril told reporters.
He said Gaddafi had made a deal with the Hamada tribe, which roams the borders between Chad, Sudan and Libya, to provide 12,000 fighters “to enter Libya and start the fight”.
It’s a beautiful thing. First move……..Gather pen and paper, gather your combatants, and have them each sit down and write out there own seperate acoounts of the war itself, while it is fresh……..They don’t put together collective accounts. They dopn’t compare notes….They write it down, they give it to a central collection authority unread. It’s not assessed by any of the military along their chain of command. It’s on hold until there’s a central civilian authority put in place to evaluate it. ……..This is especially tru and necessary for any gaddaffi prisoners. And you want them to put emphasis on orders given from officers, and the type of information/propaganda that was being dissemenated by the media they had access to……….Putting it out there like an anvil hanging over the heads of the unjust will mitigte any but not all attempts to silence those that may have been witness to genocidal acts, increasing the opportunity for a smooth transition to a democratic government………….Yeah, that’s Ankhvision……………
BTW……..the children involved as combatants write nada….Unless they have some direct and material accusation to make, and tha sould be handled differently……..
Let’s make sure there were no further major mistakes. Let’s hear from the Zintan fighters………..
Breaking News!!!!!
FF capture wound and Kill Elvis Presley In Sirte
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AW Come on, BS news with no photos? Doesn’t anybody know how this lying rumour routine works by now?
Daffy was found hiding in an Air Conditioner.
Daffy was found in bunker hole.
Daffy was found sitting on two golden revolvers
Daffy was killed in a convoy by Nato.
Daffy was killed in a firefight at the convoy by FF.
Daffy has secretly been taken to Misrata.
Daffy’s dead body has secretly been taken to a secret location and not a single photo was taken of his dead body.
Yeah, yeah , yeah.
A convoy tried to escape but all eight cars were shot up by the FF.
A convoy escaped to the Farms Area where the Misrata FF are fighting them.
How the heck did a convoy get out of a totally surrounded waterlogged area? Where would the cars have come from? A parking lot with undamaged cars in the middle of Area 2?
Give me a break.
Daffy was killed by NTC fighters who stopped a convoy.
Daffy was wounded, shot in both legs, shot in the head , shot in the big toe.
Also Micky Mousa, Elvis Presley and mickey mouse were captured (Goofy escaped by swimming to Algeria).
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THEMSELVES ARE SPREADING ALL THESE RUMOURS.
Lissen up IDIOTS!
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PICS OR STFU!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44971257/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/…………..a pic prick
my bad, I had you confused.you’re right about the media, but in the short term having the piece off the board is just as good. I doubt Osama is dead, but I dont have to hear that bullshyytt anymore….
Finally!!!
yes we got pics and video.
Here is the unedited complete video of Gaddafi’s dead body in Sirte (Skynews cut the video at a certain point)
UNEDITED COMPLETE VIDEO FORM MISRATA POST YOUTUBE CHANNEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHsX7xl-uE
There is extended footage somewhere and also I heard reference to pictures or video of Gaddafi in an ambulance.
But it is beyond doubt
The Spawn of Satan, the Son of a B**** is dead!
He is no more. He is passed over. He has gone to meet his maker. He is a dead, dead parrot!!!!
JOY! JOY! JOY!
An 18 year old freedom fighter killed him He was just like like one of the thousands of those that Gaddafi murdered and buried in masses graves, stuff in refrigerators , threw them in the sea or incinerated in crematoriums.
It was fitting Justice and that teenager with a single shot saved Libya from a lot of problems divisive arguments and security threats that would have been ongoing if Gaddafi had been taken alive.
The fat lady has sung and the Butcher is dead
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PICTURE: 18 year old Ahmed Shibani, Gadafi KILLER
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=305920186088645&set=o.211565582207570&type=1&ref=nf
Name Correction: #Mohammed #El #Bibi: “18 year old who killed #Gaddafi! …” Photo: http://t.co/ggQOQxfl #libya #feb17 RT!!!
LIBYA IS FREE…………
LIBYANS KEEP IT THAT WAY…………
PHASE I AND II IS OVER ………..
LIBYA IS FREE AND KADAFFI IS DEAD…….
Phase III must ensure a free Libya.