Hindustan Times: Updated: Sirte / Misurata, October 22, 2011, A day after images of a bloodied and defeated Muammar Gaddafi — dragged out of a drain in his hometown and final hideout of Sirte — took the world by storm, the buzz that he was captured alive and then executed grew louder. As the slain former Libyan dictator lay in a shopping center meat locker waiting for burial on Friday, a video surfaced, filmed by a bystander and showing a wounded Gaddafi being heaved off the bonnet of a pick-up, dragged towards a car, then pulled to the ground by his hair. In the background rang shouts of “keep him alive, keep him alive!”, then screaming and finally, gunshots as he went out of view. “They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, beat him and killed him,” a senior National Transitional Council (NTC) source told Reuters. “He might have been resisting.” Ibrahim Tika, the doctor who examined the 69-year-old’s body, said, “Gaddafi was arrested while alive and killed later. There was a bullet and that was the primary cause of death, it penetrated his gut. There was another bullet in the head that went in and out.” Earlier, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, reading what he said was a post-mortem report, said Gaddafi was hauled unresisting from a “sewage pipe”, shot in the arm and put in a truck, which was “caught in crossfire”.Read Full; Gaddafi killed in cold blood or in crossfire? - Hindustan Times, Image: flickr.com
