{"id":1807,"date":"2011-10-20T15:56:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2011-10-20T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:56:03","slug":"muammar-gaddafi-killed-as-sirte-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/10\/20\/1807\/","title":{"rendered":"Muammar Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/gaddafi_kiiled.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader&#8217;s hometown and final stronghold.  <!--more-->  <br \/>&#8220;We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed,&#8221; Mahmoud Jibril, the de facto Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday in Tripoli, the capital.<br \/>Crowds took to the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi, the eastern city that spearheaded the uprising against Gaddafi&#8217;s 42-year rule in February, to celebrate the news, with some firing guns and waving Libya&#8217;s new flag. <br \/>Abdul Hakim Belhaj, an NTC military chief, said Gaddafi had died of his wounds after being captured on Thursday.<br \/>The body of the former Libyan leader was taken to a location which is being kept secret for security reasons, Mohamed Abdel Kafi, an NTC official in the city of Misrata, told the Reuters news agency.<br \/>Earlier, Abdel Majid, another NTC official, said the toppled leader had been wounded in both legs.<br \/>The news came shortly after the NTC captured Sirte after weeks of fierce fighting.<br \/>&#8220;Thank God they have caught this person. In one hour, Sirte was liberated,&#8221; a fighter in the town said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conflicting reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Tripoli, Jibril said he had received unconfirmed reports that Gaddafi&#8217;s most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, was in a convoy fleeing Sirte.<br \/>Meanwhile, there were conflicting reports about the fate of one of his sons, Mutassim Gaddafi.<br \/>Reuters reported that one of the news agency&#8217;s sources had seen video of Mutassim lying on a bed and covered in blood, but alive.<br \/>Mahmoud Shammam, the NTC&#8217;s information minister, said he had received reports that Mutassim had been captured alive in Sirte, but could not confirm the news.<br \/>However, Mohamed Leith, an NTC commander, told the AFP news agency that Mutassim had been killed.<br \/>&#8220;We found him dead. We put his body and that of [former defence minister] Abu Bakr Younus in an ambulance to take them to Misrata&#8221;.<br \/>Footage had emerged earlier in the day of the body of Younus. <br \/>Abdul Hakim Al Jalil, commander of the NTC&#8217;s 11th brigade, said that Moussa Ibrahim, the former spokesman for Gaddafi&#8217;s fallen government, had been captured near Sirte.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader&#8217;s hometown and final stronghold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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