Thursday 20 October 2011

Moammar Gadhafi was killed

Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP file
Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP file


Moammar Gadhafi was killed Oct. 20, 2011, when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, two months after his regime fell.

10:25 a.m. EDT - AP files a rare FLASH bulletin: Libya's prime minister says Moammar Gadhafi has been killed.

10:15 a.m. EDT - US official: Libyan leaders have informed US that Moammar Gadhafi is dead - AP

8:48 a.m. EDT - Abdelhakim Bel Haj, the NTC military chief in Libya, tells Al Jazeera Arabic that news of Moammar Gadhafi's death has been confirmed. Bel Haj is the military commander who led revolutionary forces into Tripoli.

8:31 a.m. EDT - AFP has released a (graphic) image captured off cellphone camera that claims to show arrest of Gadhafi in Sirte (The Guardian has it on their live blog:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2011/oct/20/syria-libya-middle-east-unrest-live).

8:13 a.m. EDT - Reuters is reporting that Moammer Gadhafi has died of wounds suffered in his capture near Sirte, Libya, according to a senior NTC military official. Al Jazeera English sources also say he has been killed, but notes it is unconfirmed.

By Cory Bergman
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