Moammar Khadafy dead: The 42-year reign of the Libyan dictator

Libya's former leader Moammar Khadafy was reportedly captured and died after suffering wounds, but this has not been officially confirmed.



Moammar Khadafy's body is being kept in a freezer while an investigation is conducted into his death, officials said

Deposed Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy was killed by gunshots to the head and heart Thursday as revolutionary fighters overran his final stronghold in a bloody end to his 42-year reign.

"We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Moammar Khadafy has been killed," Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced at a Tripoli news conference.

The cruel and quirky dictator, who had vowed to die a martyr, was captured alive and wounded, according to video shown on Arab television.

The clip showed Khadafy, his shirt wet with gore, as he's shoved along by fighters who eventually push him onto the hood of a pickup truck before dragging him off.

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Khadafy's son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, was wounded, captured and hospitalized, Libyan officials said. A second son, Mussatim, was killed during the fierce fighting in their father's hometown of Sirte.

Khadafy had fled Tripoli two months ago, abandoning his luxurious capital compound as then-rebel troops toppled his iron-fisted regime following an eight-month civil war.

"You have won your revolution," President Obama told the Libyan people in a White House news conference. "One of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more."

The president called on the newly-liberated nation to create a new government with open elections.

"The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted," Obama said. "And with this enormous promise, the Libyan people now have a great responsibility."

A photo grabbed from a cell phone video showed a man identified by Al Aribaya News as the dead 69-year-old despot. He was wearing a blood-soaked shirt, and his face was bruised and bloody.

Al-Jazeera TV showed a video of a man resembling Khadafy stripped to the waist as fighters rolled his dead body along the pavement.



Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters carry a young man holding what they claim to be the gold-plated gun of ousted Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi at the site where the latter was allegedly captured.