CNN and other media outlets are reporting the Moammar Gadhafi is now dead. The Libyan dictator had a 42-year reign of leadership and was killed in an unspecified set of events.
Deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, interim Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told reporters in Tripoli on Thursday. There are conflicting reports surrounding the circumstances of his killing, which reportedly happened in or near Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte on Thursday. Libya’s ambassador to the United Kingdom says that Gadhafi’s body is in Misrata, Libya.
A different source – a spokesman for a member of the Tripoli military council –says that one of Gadhafi’s sons, Mutassim, and Moammar Gadhafi’s chief of intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, also have been killed.
A grisly video that aired on the Al Jazeera Arabic network appears to show a lifeless Gadhafi with a wound to his head (see top of post). A photograph distributed by the news agency Agence France-Presse also appeared to show the longtime dictator severely wounded. CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the images.
