Revolutionary fighters have captured deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan television said Wednesday, citing the Misrata Military Council. That report, however, could not be independently confirmed. Horns blared and celebratory gunfire burst into the air in Tripoli. "It's a great victory for the Libyan people," said Libyan Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam. Gadhafi ruled Libya with an iron fist for 42 years. A February uprising evolved into civil war that resulted in ousting the strongman from power. Earlier, anti-Gadhafi fighters said they had wrested control of the last holdout of loyalists in Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte. They said they were still battling pockets of resistance, but they were in control of the district. Sirte has been the big prize for Libya's National Transitional Council, waiting for the coastal city to fall to officially declare liberation. Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/20/world/africa/libya-war/index.html
Deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, interim Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told reporters in Tripoli on Thursday. There are conflicting reports surrounding the circumstances of his killing, which reportedly happened in or near Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte on Thursday. Libya's ambassador to the United Kingdom says that Gadhafi's body is in Misrata, Libya. A different source – a spokesman for a member of the Tripoli military council – says that one of Gadhafi's sons, Mutassim, and Moammar Gadhafi's chief of intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, also have been killed. Read more: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/2...hey-have-captured-gadhafi/?iref=BN1&hpt=hp_t1
