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The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Sirte: "I have spoken to the man who says that he captured him... he was brandishing a golden pistol"
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Libya's ex-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 had told him they had seen Col Gaddafi's body, and other officials also said he was dead.
The claims have not yet been independently verified, and other reports said he was captured alive.
The colonel was toppled in August after 42 years in power.
The International Criminal Court has been seeking his arrest.
Golden gun Nato, which has been running a bombing campaign in Libya for months, said it had carried out an air strike earlier on Thursday that hit two pro-Gaddafi vehicles near Sirte.
An image from a mobile phone apparently showing Col Muammar Gaddafi woundedIt was unclear whether the strikes were connected with the reports of Col Gaddafi's death.
The head of the National Transitional Council (NTC) Mustafa Abdul Jalil is expected to give anational TV address on Thursday.
Mr Shammam said the NTC leader would officially confirm Col Gaddafi's death.
"He was killed in an attack by the fighters. There is footage of that," he said.
Grainy video footage has been circulating among NTC fighters appearing to show Col Gaddafi's corpse.
AFP news agency reported that the video showed a large number of NTC fighters yelling in chaotic scenes around a khaki-clad body, which has blood oozing from the face and neck.
Another NTC official, Abdel Hafez Ghoga, told AFP: "We announce to the world that Gaddafi has been killed at the hands of the revolution.
"It is an historic moment. It is the end of tyranny and dictatorship. Gaddafi has met his fate."
An NTC fighter told the BBC he found Colonel Gaddafi hiding in a hole in Sirte, and the former leader begged him not to shoot.
The fighter showed reporters a golden pistol he said he had taken from Col Gaddafi.
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My comment as given on 'The Nation' newpaper:
'' Give comments only if you know these men a bit thoroughly. SearchWikipedia atleast. Like Saddam and Asad of Syria, this Gaddafi was of Bathist ideology. These Bathists do not give any preference to Islam and believe in non-religion, it was invented by a christian, see Wikipedia. Gaddafi had put a ban on following the Sharia Law in Lybia. All books of Sunnah and Hadith were banned in Libya. He had said that he had the divine right to interpret Quran as he deemed fit, and thus issued a green book of his own.
These guys do not leave easily, only after their countries have been smashed to bits. Same as Saddam, he could have left early and saved Iraq, but he did not. Gaddafi could have left early and saved Libya, but he did not. The last one left is Bashar al Asad on Syria, he would also not leave until his country is destroyed.
Tunisian and Egyptian dictators left early and thus saved their countries. They were not Bathist, while these ones are.
Those who reject the Sunnah of the prophet pbuh have this miserable death hiding in holes as their end. He was no bloody lion, he was a mentally retarded deviant person. ''
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