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Months ago, Cramer said the DOW would go up a thousand points on the news that Gaddafi was dead.

by al 10/20/2011 12:34:04 PM
"said he had found the colonel hiding in a hole in the ground in the city of Sirte" Shades of Saddam here.

by Michael Stimson 10/20/2011 12:34:40 PM
The Guardian has a potential photo of a bloody Gaddafi being captured. Graphic warning. www.guardian.co.uk

by ResidencyMMA 10/20/2011 12:36:07 PM
The body of Muammar Gaddafi is being taken to a secret location for security reasons, NTC official Mohamed Abdel Kafi tells Reuters.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 12:36:52 PM
@ Ben, couldn't agree with you more.

by Hales 10/20/2011 12:37:26 PM
This so called "brave" dictators are actually quite cowardly when they are alone.

by blkbrd 10/20/2011 12:38:23 PM
Same photo on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk

by Hales 10/20/2011 12:38:29 PM
A fighter in Sirte has told the BBC his account of the reported capture. Mohammed, a young fighter in his 20s, wearing a blue T-shirt and a New York Yankees baseball cap, said he had found the colonel hiding in a hole in the ground in the city of Sirte. He told the BBC that the former Libyan leader said to him simply: "Don't shoot".

by Sam666 10/20/2011 12:41:11 PM
“The Libyan Ministry of Health have confirmed that air strikes to date by NATO have killed 3452 civilians”

by al 10/20/2011 12:41:20 PM
The aforementioned photo has just been shown live on Sky News.

by ResidencyMMA 10/20/2011 12:41:30 PM
Gaddafi was killed in NTC forces attack, NTC information minister Mahmoud Shammam tells Reuters.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 12:43:32 PM
An NTC commander, Abdel-Basit Haroun, says Gaddafi was killed when an airstrike hit a convoy trying to flee, according to the Associated Press. But some teenage rebel says he captured Gaddafi whilst he was hiding in a hole..

by cal.s edited by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 12:44:29 PM
@al, thanks for the info. I bet there won't be any 10 year anniversary's for remembering those victims like we have just done for 9/11.

by ben, australia 10/20/2011 12:45:42 PM
Anti-Gaddafi fighters celebrated the fall of Sirte October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

by Reuters_Carla Tonelli 10/20/2011 12:47:34 PM
Gaddafi is neither the first nor the last to be killed as the NTC seeks to solidify control of the country. Will the Libyan people simply replace one brutal regime with another?

by azz 10/20/2011 12:53:51 PM
Oct. 20 - NTC fighters in Sirte celebrate following reports of Gaddafi's capture. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

by Reuters_Carla Tonelli 10/20/2011 12:56:19 PM
NTC confirm Gadaffi dead, killed in gun fight according to BBC interview

by Display Name:Monsal 10/20/2011 12:56:40 PM
Al Jazeera - NTC Military Chief confirms that Gaddafi was killed in a gun battle

by Waht? 10/20/2011 12:56:42 PM
Al Jazeera TV has broadcast a picture of a body it says was Gaddafi's defence minister Abu Bakr Younes.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 12:57:24 PM
If the reports are true, and I have no reason to believe it's true or not, it might be a great day for Libyans or not. I lved there from 1963 until 1965 when Idris was king. The tribes then didn't like each other and don't now. I wanted to go back at some time but I didn't want to do so with good memories as a high schooler. I guess if it's true and the country can unite, then it's a good thing. However, I fear that just one more dictator will take over. If true at least it won't be like Idi Amin who's been allowed to live out his life in Saudi Arabia. I have great fear for Libya, a pretty country that has been partially destroyed by the fighting there.

by Southerner 64 10/20/2011 12:57:44 PM
The UK's Ministry of Defence said it was not known if Col Gaddafi had been in the convoy. "It was targeted on the basis that this was the last of the pro-Gaddafi forces fleeing Sirte," a spokesman said. RAF fighters were not involved in the attack, although RAF reconnaissance aircraft were in the area.

by Sam666 10/20/2011 12:58:05 PM
The good side to this is that he won't turn into a shadow haunting the new system and wasting the nation's resources like what's hapenning in Afghanistan. But that could always happen even without him. Just look at Iraq. In countries where the social system comprises tribes, central governments are not likely to thrive on democratic policies because people are aligned along tribal lines, not national ones.

by Ebi 10/20/2011 12:58:55 PM
I have my doubts about this report and will wait for final confirmation. Either way, US Forces are sure to end up in country. Another country for the US to take a strong hold in....and for what?

by soldier 10/20/2011 1:03:50 PM
He is alive and you disgrace yourself badly here.

by Heidern 10/20/2011 1:03:58 PM
Libyan NTC military official confirms photo of apparently dead man shown on TV networks was that of Muammar Gaddafi.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 1:04:39 PM
@Heidern The latest comment from the NTC is that he has died of wounds sustained during capture. There is no independent verification at this point.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 1:05:16 PM
Who is Your source Mark?

by Sam666 10/20/2011 1:06:18 PM
@Sam666 My comments are quoting from our internal news wire.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 1:06:40 PM
Al Jazeera TV says NTC forces capture Muammar Gaddafi's son Mo'tassim alive in Sirte.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 1:07:08 PM
Speaking to the BBC News Channel, Abdullah Kenshill - the NTC's chief negotiator - says the former Libyan leader was killed by NTC forces and Nato wasn't involved. "It's Libyan people and Libyan forces who had this honour," he says.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 1:08:36 PM
Al Jazeera TV says mobile phone footage shows Gaddafi was captured injured, but alive.

by MrPinkEyes 10/20/2011 1:09:59 PM
Profile: Flamboyant Gaddafi no stranger to bloodshed www.reuters.com

by Reuters_Helen Cook 10/20/2011 1:10:41 PM
NATO said it is going to convene soon for a meeting to discuss ending its operation in Libya, a source told CNN.

by Sam666 10/20/2011 1:10:56 PM
Statements made by representatives of Libya's new leadership in the past have not always turned out to be true

by Sam666 10/20/2011 1:13:14 PM
Anti-Gaddafi fighters celebrated the fall of Sirte 0ctober 20, 2011. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

by Reuters_Carla Tonelli 10/20/2011 1:13:18 PM
Nick Clegg, the UK's deputy prime minister, tells the BBC that if reports of Col Gaddafi's capture are true it represents "a very significant further step for peace and freedom in the whole region", adding that it could mean "a new beginning for Libya".

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 1:15:00 PM
Intresting news UK government sources say they are expecting confirmation "soon" from Abdul Jalil over capture of Gaddafi.

by Sam666 10/20/2011 1:15:39 PM
Jazeera TV shows photos of dead Gaddafi defense chief www.reuters.com

by Reuters_Helen Cook 10/20/2011 1:16:11 PM
Al Arabiya says Gaddafi's corpse arrived in Misrata, says will be allowed to film it, citing correspondent

by anthony.derosa 10/20/2011 1:16:26 PM
Pro-NTC Libya TV continues to report that Col Gaddafi has been killed, adding that the ex-Libyan leader's sons Mu'tasim, Mansur Daw and Ahmad Ibrahim Abdallah al-Sanusi have been captured and transferred to Misrata on an air ambulance.

by Sam666 10/20/2011 1:16:54 PM
GlobalPost is running an account from an "eyewitness" who says Gaddafi died in an ambulance
: www.globalpost.com

by Reuters_Carla Tonelli 10/20/2011 1:19:57 PM
TV reports say Gaddafi's son, Mo'tassim Gaddafi, has been captured alive in Sirte www.reuters.com

by Reuters_Helen Cook 10/20/2011 1:22:35 PM
Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif Al-Islam is believed to be still at large in the Southern Libyan desert, an NTC member tells Jazeera TV.

by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 10/20/2011 1:25:34 PM
What about Al Qaida fighters in Libya and all those land to air rockets?

by Sam666 10/20/2011 1:26:14 PM
Real mess!!
Ghaddafi has died a coward just like Saddam. Gbagbo was lucky not to have gone that way.My sympathies only to the brave NTC fighters who died.

by farther 10/20/2011 1:27:54 PM

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