Muammar Gaddafi’s demise, in amateur videos

On October 20, National Transitional Council combatants found ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi holed up in a tunnel to the east of Sirte, his home town. A few hours later, he was dead. His body was brought to a mosque in the city of Misrata, to the north. The former dictator’s last hours were captured in amateur videos.

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Muammar Gaddafi is captured by NTC combatants in a tunnel where he was hiding, in an industrial zone in Sirte.

Wounded and covered in blood, Gaddafi is passed from one combatant to the next as they cheer.

In this video Gaddafi, who at this point is still alive, is pushed onto the hood of a pickup truck that appears to belong to the former rebels.

Gaddafi’s lifeless body. The location where this video was filmed remains unknown.

Men celebrate around Gaddafi’s corpse. The location where this video was filmed remains unknown; however it is likely to be in the city of Misrata, where Gaddafi was transferred after his capture.

NTC combatants show off a golden firearm they say they found on Gaddafi when he was captured. At 0’50 seconds, they gather outside the tunnel where the former Libyan leader was found.

In this video, a combatant who appears in several videos of Gaddafi’s capture describes what happened. He explains that a Gaddafi loyalist surrendered to his unit as they were fighting in an industrial zone in Sirte. He says this man told them that one of Gaddafi’s sons, as well as other loyalists, were hiding inside this zone. Several of these loyalists were then captured by the combatants. The combatant in the video goes on to explain that these loyalists gave up Gaddafi’s location, and told him the former Libyan leader was wounded. “I immediately went to capture him,” says the combatant. At the end of the video, he shows off two firearms and a satellite telephone, which he says he found on Gaddafi.