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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
Little sign of artillery damage on Gaddafi's 'getaway car' as it is paraded by revolutionary forces Last updated at 9:59 PM on 23rd October 2011 Revolutionary forces were jubilant today as they took possession of the hated former dictator's 'getaway'...
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Guardian Unlimited
| over 1 year ago
Libyans gesture as they queue to see the corpse of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi inside a storage freezer in Misrata. Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters Ritha Mohammed crouched with a napkin to wipe the soles of his daughter's shoes, which he...
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Africa Headlines
| over 1 year ago
Dar Condemns Gaddafi Killing 22 October 2011 Dar es Salaam Tanzania has condemned Thursday's killing of former Libyan strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and cautioned that the north African country's reconstruction process could be undermined by civil...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Entertainment&Stars Sign up to get up- to- date celebrity news, gossip, and more! Sample Gaddafi was killed Thursday after being captured by the Libyan fighters he once scorned as "rats," cornered and shot in the head after they overran his last...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Barely a building remains undamaged in Sirte The swaggering architectural ambitions of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi never achieved the stylistic unity reached by Hitler in Berlin, but he had his dreams. And the most cherished of all his projects was to...
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The Sun UK
| over 1 year ago
Chief Feature Writer in Sirte, Libya IT was hardly the glorious last stand the self-styled African King of Kings must have imagined time and again during his final doomed weeks. Dripping blood and begging for his life, Colonel Gaddafi cowered in a...
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The Sun UK
| over 1 year ago
Cameron was so desperate for the head of Colonel Gaddafi that he ordered military commanders to track down the fleeing tyrant. But top brass stalled on the PM's request for a joint SAS and RAF mission because they feared it could be illegal. Mr...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
As politicians in Western capitals were taking quiet pleasure in the capture and killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, opinions elsewhere were divided. In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Geneva Conventions had been...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Gaddafi's grave 'should not be a shrine' 21 October 2011 Last updated at 16:38 ET Col Gaddafi's burial has been delayed by differences among officials about what should be done with the body. Under Islamic tradition burial should have taken place as...
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News 24
| over 1 year ago
Slain former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should not have been killed, but captured and tried at the International Criminal Court, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. Zuma was addressing a joint media briefing with Equatorial Guinea President...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
He's a criminal, he killed 40,000 people during this crisis, he ordered his soldiers to kill and to rape and do everything to destroy everything in Libya.'' Speaking at his embassy in Canberra, Mr Allafi said Colonel Gaddafi's death marked a turning...
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Democracy Now
| over 1 year ago
Gaddafi's convoy near Sirte early on Thursday, but he and a few others escaped on foot, and were eventually caught and killed by a unit of fighters from the National Transitional Council. Gaddafi's burial has now been delayed ahead of an outside...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
A U.N. human rights official, meanwhile, said a panel formed to investigate abuses in Libya would probably look into Gaddafi's death Thursday following his capture while trying to hide in a large drainage pipe as he fled his last stronghold in Sirte.
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Sky News
| over 1 year ago
US President Barack Obama announced the mission would "soon come to an end" and French President Nicolas Sarkozy has agreed that the end is near. Mr Sarkozy called for forgiveness and reconciliation in Libya, adding that Col Gaddafi's death is not a...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Colonel Gaddifi hit by crossfire' 21 October 2011 Last updated at 07:05 ET The bullet wound to Colonel Gaddafi's head, that he received after he was captured, was the cause of crossfire between revolutionary forces and loyalist supporters, according...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
The Independent (and its sister, i) tried that most difficult of tricks by running four video grabs to illustrate the drama of Gaddafi being dragged from a truck...The Daily Telegraph and The Sun selected the same picture of Gaddafi on top of the...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Alex Ellinghausen Australia and Australians will be at risk from international terrorism "for a long period of time", Defence Minister Stephen Smith says...Commenting on reports of the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the defence minister...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Many Libyans are celebrating the death of a dictator and Western leaders are hailing a transition to democracy...Hillary Clinton paid a surprise visit to Tripoli a day before the killing of the ousted Libyan leader. There she was quoted as saying...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
World reaction to the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi 20 October 2011 Last updated at 22:40 ET Leaders around the world have been reacting to the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi's personal regime. President Obama said the news of his death marked a fresh...
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The Sun UK
| over 1 year ago
Colonel Gaddafi was executed with a single shot to the head after begging one of his captors: "What did I ever do to you?" Libya's hated tyrant found skulking in a drainage pipe in a suburb of his home city was shown no mercy as he was thrown wounded...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
Authorities in the Libyan town of Misrata have told the ABC they have taken control of Moamar Gaddafi's body after the former Libyan dictator was cornered and killed during chaotic fighting in his home town of Sirte. There are conflicting reports on...
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The Sun UK
| over 1 year ago
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi lies dead after the 270 victims of the Lockerbie bombing he orchestrated were finally avenged. The Libyan Mad Dog, 69, was shot in the head by rebels after being wounded in a Nato air strike on a convoy fleeing his home city...
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The Independent
| over 1 year ago
David Cameron makes a statement after Gaddafi's death The news that Colonel Gaddafi was dead was broken to David Cameron not by his officials but by an excited Joe Murphy, political editor of the London Evening Standard. He burst into a Newspaper...
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Palestine Chronicle
| over 1 year ago
Libyans into a jubilant frenzy while it has provoked mixed reactions from the political observers who may eye the event with reasonable degree of suspicion. "He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head," National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a statement. "I call on all Libyans to put aside their differences and work together to build a brighter future." (Reuters)
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Africa Headlines
| over 1 year ago
Citizens Must See Justice After Death of Colonel Al-Gaddafi 20 October 2011 press release The death of Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi brings to a close a chapter of Libya's history marked by repression and abuse, but does not end the story, Amnesty...
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Africa Headlines
| over 1 year ago
Tripoli, erupted in celebration with wild jubilation, punching the air, singing, car horns blaring and celebratory gunshots in reaction to the news that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the former leader of the country had been captured and killed...The vice...
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The Daily Telegraph
| over 1 year ago
Muammar Gaddafi before he was killed in clashes in Libya, French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet says. FThe convoy of several dozen vehicles "was stopped from progressing as it sought to flee Sirte but was not destroyed by the French intervention",...
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Salem News
| over 1 year ago
Thursday October 20, 2011 Search About Salem-News.com is the premiere Independent Online Newsgroup in the United States...The ruler of Libya for more than 42 years, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is dead...Gaddafi's final words to his captors, whom he...
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Novinite
| over 1 year ago
After two months in hiding, the fugitive Libyan dictator died of his wounds after he was captured and wounded as the Libyan rebel forces overran his last remaining bastion Sirte on Thursday afternoon...French Defence Minister Longuet said French air...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
05 Gaddafi's most wanted son killed Al Arabiya TV has announced that there are confirmed reports that Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, has been killed on the same day as his father and his corpse has already been brought to Misrata airport. In...
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ITN
| over 1 year ago
The National Transitional Council has confirmed the former Libyan leader died from wounds he sustained during the capture of his hometown of Sirte. Part of the video, which appears to have been shot on a mobile phone, shows Gaddafi apparently still...
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GMA News
| over 1 year ago
Gaddafi forces near his last holdout of Sirte at about 0830 local time (0630 GMT) on Thursday, a statement from military spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie said. "These armed vehicles were conducting military operations and presented a clear threat to...
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Al Jazeera
| over 1 year ago
57 Libya's ousted leader had been on the run since National Transitional Council (NTC) forces captured the capital Tripoli and forced him to flee in August...The European Union The death of Gaddafi "marks the end of an era of despotism," Herman Van...
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Novinite
| over 1 year ago
Ghoga has further declared that the liberation of all of Libya will be announced within hours, BBC reports. Earlier on Thursday, Mohamed Abdel Kafi, another TNC senior official ,told Reuters that the body of Muammar Gaddafi is being taken to a top...
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The Sun UK
| over 1 year ago
Gaddafi has been captured in Libya and may be dead, it was claimed today. A senior National Transitional Council military official said the former dictator has died from injuries sustained as he was seized in his hometown of Sirte...It has been...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
NTC military chief Bel Haj has confirmed that Colonel Gaddafi has been killed. The fugitive leader died of wounds sustained during his capture near Sirte. Earlier the NTC reported Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs...Muammar Gaddafi, one...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below "It is the end of tyranny and dictatorship...One of the new regimes' top military official says the coastal city of Sirte, the final bastion of resistance by forces loyal to Gaddafi, fell on Thursday. "Sirte has been liberated,...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Libya's former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after an assault on his home town of Sirte, officials from the transitional authorities have said. Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam said fighters on the ground had told him they had seen...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Reuters Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ruthlessly crushed dissent against his autocratic rule Officials today scrambled to check reports that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had died after being captured near his hometown of Sirte following months of...
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Novinite
| over 1 year ago
Abdelhakim Bel Haj, the NTC military chief, told Al Jazeera Arabic that news of Muammar Gaddafi 's death has been confirmed. Bel Haj is the military commander who led revolutionary forces into Tripoli . The body of Muammar Gaddafi is being taken to a...
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Gawker
| over 1 year ago
Gaddafi Might Be Dead Reuters just announced over the Twitter that Libyan dictator-turned- fashion-forward fugitive Muammar Gaddafi has died after being wounded during today's fighting in Sirte, his hometown. Gaddafi reportedly suffered wounds to...
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GMA News
| over 1 year ago
Libya Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs near his hometown of Sirte at dawn on Thursday, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid said. Majid reported the capture after Libyan interim government...
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The Sun UK
| over 1 year ago
Gaddafi has died after being captured in Libya, it was claimed today. According to unconfirmed reports, the former dictator was wounded in both legs while being seized in his hometown of Sirte. A senior National Transitional Council military official...
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Rediff
| over 1 year ago
H as Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi reached the dead end? It seems so as reports suggest that the former Libyan dictator was captured on Thursday by the rebel fighters of the National Transitional Council in his hometown of Sirte. After a...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
And Libyans themselves must decide on Gaddafi's fate, the Russian President said On Thursday the National Transitional Council of Libya the main body of forces battling the remaining supporters of Colonel Gaddafi reported that the city of Sirte was...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample The news of Gaddafi's capture comes as the national Transitional forces have taken control of Sirte, the colonel's birthplace after two- months of conflicts against the Gaddafi...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
Gaddafi 'captured' as rebel forces take control of Sirte Last updated at 12:19 PM on 20th October 2011 Muammar Gaddafi has been captured by revolutionary forces in Libya, it has been reported today. Gaddafi and his family have been on the run since...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
The news came after transitional forces claimed control of Sirte, Col Gaddafi's birthplace and the last city where fighters loyal to him had held out.
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News 24
| over 1 year ago
Libyan interim government fighters captured Muammar Gaddafi's home town on Thursday, extinguishing the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the deposed leader and ending a two-month siege. The capture of Sirte means Libya's ruling National...
