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Gaddafi killed as Libya’s revolt claims hometown

(Reuters) - Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said. His killing, which came

(Reuters) – Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya’s interim rulers said.

His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen.

“He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters. “There was a lot of firing against his group and he died.”

Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi, who was in his late 60s, was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked. He said he had been taken away by an ambulance.

There was no independent confirmation of his remarks.

An anti-Gaddafi fighter said Gaddafi had been found hiding in a hole in the ground and had said “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot” to the men who grabbed him.

His capture followed within minutes of the fall of Sirte, a development that extinguished the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the deposed leader.

The capture of Sirte and the death of Gaddafi means Libya’s ruling NTC should now begin the task of forging a new democratic system which it had said it would get under way after the city, built as a showpiece for Gaddafi’s rule, had fallen.

Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was toppled by rebel forces on August 23 after 42 years of one-man rule over the oil-producing North African state.

NTC fighters hoisted the red, black and green national flag above a large utilities building in the center of a newly-captured Sirte neighborhood and celebratory gunfire broke out among their ecstatic and relieved comrades.

Hundreds of NTC troops had surrounded the Mediterranean coastal town for weeks in a chaotic struggle that killed and wounded scores of the besieging forces and an unknown number of defenders.

NTC fighters said there were a large number of corpses inside the last redoubts of the Gaddafi troops. It was not immediately possible to verify that information.

(Writing by Jon Hemming and William Maclean; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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  • wedi moke October 20, 2011

    Ambassador Beyene ambasador to Kenya, underlined that all the baseless allegations will come to an end with the power of law and justice and indicated that Eritrea is working hard in ensuring human rights and social justice, on top of registering major achievements.
    ሰበይትኻ አብ ዒራዒሮ አስፊርካስ ንሰብአዊ መሰል ን ፍትሕን አበርቲዕና ንሰርሕ አለና ዪብሃለለይ። ወይ ጽላለ!
    http://www.shabait.com/news/local-news/7317-the-accusation-by-some-foreign-forces-alleging-that-eritrea-is-supporting-terrorism-is-a-baseless-allegation-ambassador

  • wufuy 2 October 20, 2011

    Aleku ab gonika!

  • Barentu October 20, 2011

    ብድሕርዚ እቲ ዝዓብየ ውርደት፥ ንሬሳ ገዳፊ ከዝሞተ ኸልቢ ኣብ ጽርግያ ምጉሳሶም እዩ። ወይ ጉድ ንኹሉ እባ መምዓልቱ ኣለዎ እዩ።
    በሉ ነዚ ኣብ ደንደን ከም ኣንጭዋ ናቕፋ ተሓቢኡ ሰብ ዝሳቒ ዘሎ እከይ ድማ፤ ኣብ መዓልትኻ የራኽበና በሉለይ፤
    ኣብዛ ደርፊ እዚኣ ቀዛፊ ብፈኸራ ከምዚ ይብል፥
    “ሰራዊተይ ሚልዮናት እዩ፥
    ሰብ ብሰብ፤
    ደረት ብደረት፤
    ኣንጎሎ ብኣንጎሎ፤
    ካብ በረኻ ንበረኻ፤
    ስድሪ ብስድሪ፤
    በብሓንቲ ለቐመ፤
    ፈጥ ፈጥ ከብለክን እየ።”

    እዛ ደርፊ፤ “ዜንጋ ዜንጋ” እያ ትበሃል::

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcUutnU2gk&feature=related

  • Semhar October 21, 2011

    Gaddafi is dead Isayas is next!

    Yes we can DISTROY the dictator ISAYAS and his terrorist organization the PFDJ where ever they are.
    Yes we will DISTROY the dictator ISAYAS and his terrorist organization the PFDJ where ever they are.
    Eritrea will be free soon!

    – The international community’s talking peace and carrying big stick [sanctions] is having an effect.
    – The Eritrean people are beginning to realize that there is no point in waiting for the regime to reform itself — that it needs to be overthrow.
    This is the moment we must come together to save our land and our people.

    Let freedom ring in Akeleguzay!
    Let freedom ring in Barka!
    Let freedom ring in Denkel!
    Let freedom ring in Hamasien!
    Let freedom ring in Sahil!
    Let freedom ring in Semhar!
    Let freedom ring in Senhit!
    Let freedom ring in Seraye!

    Let freedom ring in ERITREA!

    Let freedom ring allover Eritrea!
    Let’s LIVE FREE OR DIE with dignity.
    Our martyrs did not die to crown the tyrant.
    We must reclaim our flag, our constitution, Highi Indaba, our land (our original provinces), our people, and our culture.
    DISTROY the dictator ISAYAS and his terrorist organization the PFDJ where ever they are.
    Eritrea will be free soon!

    • abdi October 21, 2011

      Clam down sis,this won’t make you any good,think about ur health,mind you, followers of those so called eritrean oppositions had suffered enough(including my father) of their failed meetings and false promises,and some ended up blabbring jebha Wey mot in gahawis(cafes) all over the world.So take it easy,and don’t expect much from them they are nothing other than nfas.
      “Melebemi ayegberka,melebemn aykhlaeka “,eu ‘mo semhar flag wey kea semhar freedom konki keytterfi zahaftey.

      • sol October 21, 2011

        Abbed

        Keep bluffing! Even the kings of king has gone, he died a dishonorable death. The days of Issias are numbered he is gone a die like a rat.You guys will live in shame while prolonging the suffering of hard working, loyal, family loving and patriotic people of Eritrea.

    • Sawel October 21, 2011

      Semhar you need to change unless you are in the range of 60+ because most of us not worried about old flag, province and Highi Indaba. we have constitution WHICH WAD DRAFTED IN1997 but PIA hijack the issue because he know in the constitution he only had eight year in power.
      The constitution can be edited and improved every year to became inclusive of all Eritrean’s. so please don’t give Abdi and the HGDEF a weapon of excuse to attack you and our people by using your old ways because as you know they don’t have new ideas, how to govern Eritrea they only use scaremongering tack-tick like JEBHA will dived Eritrea and Ethiopia will take your land so on, they have sang this song for the last 20 years.

    • Sawel October 21, 2011

      By the way this what isayas promise to Eritrean’s until he garbed the power and then ten year of propaganda and excuse of Ethiopia occupied our land. what next?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFB6_V1V2R8&feature=related

  • Barentu October 21, 2011

    Semhar,
    what original “cherqi” or flag do you have? or who cares about an old Awraja name or territory or region? or about old notions and ideas or so called laws put by some UN reps?
    You said about old “Higi endabas”, leave that to historians and archeologists to dig and worry about. Lets worry about justice, democracy and fairness now. There may be some good starting points in some Higi endabas, as there are outdated, unjust, and old Higiendabas in some.
    Think modern, efficient and accountable ways to govern, not too old ideas. We need to grow up and move forward. Forget the past, learn to move forward.

  • PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail) October 21, 2011

    it is great to hear this news.
    but again it is really shame.. for the media of PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail) , still it is keep silent while every media reports about it. My mum has saw Gadafi Killed in ETV, and i was wondering how she is happy, she is not alone, everyone enjoys this news.
    Great news… dictators should go…
    PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail) will be the next to his friends.
    Victory to my people of Eritrea

  • Qezez_fezez October 21, 2011

    i dislike the way colonel gadaffi is treated. he gave the stupid libyans everythink. libyans were able to buy 4o bread for 50 cents and they were allowed to study at the best universities. The west confused and misled the stuipid ibyans to revot. Soon we will see libyans begging on street, s we have seen in Iraq and they will definitly remember the good old times under gadaffi.

  • Serving to hide the truth October 21, 2011

    why is always PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail) media trys to hide the truth?
    you know that every media is talking about this breaking news,
    why is PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail) medias try to hid the facts?
    i am so jouloas you can see the Ethiopian media both the government supporters and opponents(TV’s, newspapers and online websites) reporting everything what is there…
    where are our medias? is there any law that prevents our media not to report about libya,egypt,syria,yemen?
    why our media only focus on somalia and US?
    Huge shame for PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail)

  • PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail) October 21, 2011

    to:-Serving to hide the truth:
    PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail) regime is under huge fear, so they don’t want to report news about Arab springs.
    they think that the Eritrean people don’t get information about Isayas’s last friend death or other his dictator friends if they don’t report it. but they are again fooling themselves. everyone is aware of it, they cannot hide it .

    It is great news: Last day’s of Isayas’s last friend killed by Great people of Libya…
    Isayas is now in a huge fear…sooner or later he will be killed by our arms.

  • addiss October 21, 2011

    Haqqi nezareb
    Anything from Nakfa is much better than the Eritrean oppostion wanna be. The lion of nakfa after he arrived in NY meret tekawemte ab kindey mitsilmatu melishu gib ellu the lion of nakfa fishik entebele werki bisha kimesl asnanu binesebrak fishiktau zigeded tekawami aynu tedoguhu.

    • The Bee October 21, 2011

      “addiss”
      It is okay for you to be attracted to the dictators “fishiktau or his smile”. But the opposition is not about demeanor and looks, they are dealing with reality of false jail time, oppression, a rebel government who is sadistic and cruel against its own people. An illegal government who refused to implement the ratified constitution on May 23, 1997. If you think you have a government that is doing things right domestically and internationally and if you cannot learn by what you see on the ground and the condition of Eritreans at this hour, you must be an abnormal person who cannot distinguish Right from wrong! Go back to school and repeat first grade.

    • Haqqi Nezareb October 21, 2011

      Addis,
      You mean a big fat rats like Issais and his cliques. We shall see how Eritrea will benefit from the Bisha mining after the imposition of another sanction from UN.

    • HAGERAWI October 21, 2011

      Eritrea rebels say they killed 12 government troops reported by reuters today.
      http://af.reuters.com/article/ethiopiaNews/idAFL5E7LL3J520111021

      When a dictator refuse to listen to the people to cast the votes then the people they will resort to violence and start calling Afar, Kunama and so on, autonomy even separation from the country.
      to those thinking Eritrea is united under Isayas and hgdef you are wrong. people only trust they family and village on the time of dictators because you have spays recruited by dictators. so the first action is to segregate the ethnic group from the rest, to fight and defend your ethnic group slavery, so the villagers can support you.
      even do I don’t support this military action and division,when people only have one option and that is military action the only trust they own so I see the worst coming to the country if hgdef dose not change it ways, like Libya or somalia.

      • Bus.Zone October 21, 2011

        You Got It Man , Ur On The Money , HEGDF Asses Never Understand Implosive Society they are Like robots Do what they have been told by the Bandits in Asmara

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