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As we were driving down to the center of the city we heard rumors that a
convoy of Gaddafi loyalists was trying to break out
of the remaining stronghold; so that's what we've been investigating, is
exactly what happened,
how Gaddafi was killed,
and whether he was killed in fighting or actually executed.
We started getting a better picture of what happened to Gaddafi when we
went to the scene of the battle today.
We found 95 five bodies still remaining there. Gaddafi
loyalists who had been killed during the final gun battle.
We also talked to some of the surviving members of the convoy in the
hospital who had been gravely wounded . They found Muammar Gaddafi hiding in a
ditch under the road. They pulled Muammar Gaddafi out of the ditch
and as they brought him onto the road above the ditch, other rebel
fighters started attacking him. They started pulling at his hair, punching him in the face.
They were really enraged to see the person who has put so much suffering on them over the
last 8 months
finally captured. He was not mortally wounded when he was taken away
from the place of his capture,
and when he left the city of Sirte, so something happened in between his capture
and his departure from the city of Sirte and his arrival in
Misrata dead.
He received what appears to be fatal gunshot wound to the head
somewhere along the way. The National Transitional Council claims that Gaddafi
was shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire
between rebels and Gaddafi loyalists; that simply does not stand up
to the information we've been able to collect. I think it is a dark
stain
on Libya's future that on the first day of a new Libya, really the day
of its liberation from Gaddafi's brutal rule, these executions took place.
Muammar Gaddafi had a lot of charges to answer, but he should have answered
those charges in a court room, not on the street surrounded by rebel fighters who
ended up killing him... What happened
around the death of Muammar Gaddafi is not just about the killing of Muammar
Gaddafi,
it's also about armed groups operating with impunity in Libya �