Muammar Gaddafi killed in Libya

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    More on the images carried by al-Jazeera, which appear to show Col Gaddafi before he died. The former Libyan leader was shown with a bloody face, being manhandled by a group of NTC fighters. He was seen struggling at one point and being pushed against a car and struck on the head with a pistol, Reuters reports. Al-Jazeera said the pictures were aired by a Libyan TV channel.

     
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    @Weddady in Massachusetts, US

    tweets: "Gaddafi didn't get a trial": tell that to Mansour Al-Kikhiya or Fathi Al-Jahmi or Hamed Al-Shuwehdi's families #Libya #Justice

     
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    Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar in Iraq

    emails: Another Arab dictatorship has fallen. Libyan people need to realise that there is much work ahead of them. They must keep themselves united and not fall into the trap of sectarianism as the Iraqis did. Long live democracy!

     
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    Juan Sebastian Pantoja

    writing on the BBC Mundo facebook page, says: Libyan people have waited a long time for Gaddafi's death. Today it's the beginning of democracy for them. They knew that with Gaddafi, peace in Lybia would never be assured. Now that he is not an obstacle any more they will move forward with the development of their country.

     
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    Broadcaster Al Jazeera

    tweets: Al Jazeera is receiving unconfirmed reports that Saif al-Islam, Muammar #Gaddafi's son, has been arrested http://aje.me

     
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    The African Union says it has lifted its suspension of Libya's membership, reports Reuters. The new Libyan government will take the seat, the AU said.

     
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    Libyan leader Col Gaddafi during a news conference inside his Bedouin tent on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya, 12 January 1986

    See images of Col Gaddafi in our picture gallery, including one of him in September 1969 just a few weeks after his coup d'etat ousted King Idris. Here is the former Libyan leader during the 1980s.

     
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    "There is a very, very strong feeling that Gaddafi was a man who had done evil to his country," says Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya. "It is a relief" that Col Gaddafi is dead he tells BBC World Service, but "our role has been played - it's now up to the Libyans to make the best of the new situation," he says.

     
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    1736:

    Our monitoring staff at Caversham report that Al-Jazeera TV is showing footage of Gaddafi being taken away alive by Libyan fighters. The screen caption reads: "Urgent footage of Gaddafi before his killing".

     
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    The Vatican's number two, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said he was praying for "peace in the country and democracy" in Libya. "We have to work for the Libyan people and so that everybody will cooperate towards the reconstruction" of the war-torn country, he said.

     

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