Gaddafi Dead | Libya Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi Dead

A spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Benghazi, Jalal al-Galal, said a doctor who examined the fallen strongman in Misrata found he had been shot in the head and abdomen. Jerky video shown on Al-Jazeera showed a man looking like Gaddafi, with distinctive long, curly hair, bloodied and staggering under blows from armed men, apparently NTC fighters.

"They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed," one senior source in the NTC told Reuters. "He might have been resisting."

Driven in an ambulance from Sirte, his partially stripped body was delivered to a mosque in Misrata. Senior NTC official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters that DNA tests were being conducted to confirm it was Gaddafi. He would be buried in Misrata, most likely by Friday according to Muslim custom.
Officials said his son Mutasin, also seen bleeding but alive in a video, had also died.

Another son, heir-apparent Seif 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.

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Libya: resistance weakens as troops advance into Gaddafi's hometown - by Peter Beaumont

Columns of Libyan government forces pushed deeper into the heart of Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte on Saturday, fighting resistance that appeared ever weaker.

The advance by forces of the interim government, the National Transitional Council, which at one point came within 500 metres of the city's main road, was slowed by snipers in several apartment buildings and a bunker. But in some areas the fighters have made significant progress.

The advance came through an area know as the Seven Hundreds, a district of unfinished houses backed by a sprawling suburb that only fell to government forces during fierce fighting on Friday that continued late into the night. Yesterday it was a ghost town, the streets littered with empty shell casings and smashed cars. The area is next to a compound belonging to the former dictator and includes a military base which yesterday was under control of NTC fighters.

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Libya leader gives Gaddafi loyalists surrender deadline

Libya’s interim leader on Tuesday gave forces loyal to deposed ruler Muammar Gaddafi a four-day deadline to surrender towns still under their control or face military force. A spokesman for the National Transitional Council said it would seek to extradite Gaddafi’s relatives from Algeria, which is alone among Libya’s neighbors in not recognizing the NTC.

Nearly 60 countries have acknowledged the NTC as Libya’s legitimate authority. Algeria, Russia, China, India, South Africa, Venezuela, and Brazil are among those which have so far withheld recognition.

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