Why gaddafi was killed

Watch Live. Breaking News Close. Six years since Muammar Gaddafi was killed - photos, facts and quotes. Libya October 20, was the day on which longtime Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was deposed.

You may also like. From the same country. Dhao made no mention either of the attack on the Gaddafi convoy by a US Predator drone and a French Rafale jet as it tried to break out of Sirte, attempting to drive three kilometres through hostile territory before it was scattered and brought to a halt by rebel fighters. It is possible that Dhao did not know that the first missiles to hit the Gaddafi convoy as it tried to flee came from the air.

What is clear is that at around 8am on Thursday, as National Transitional Council fighters launched a final assault to capture the last remaining buildings in Sirte, in an area about metres square, the pro-Gaddafi forces had also readied a large convoy to break out.

These armed vehicles were leaving Sirte at high speed and were attempting to force their way around the outskirts of the city. The vehicles were carrying a substantial amount of weapons and ammunition, posing a significant threat to the local civilian population. The convoy was engaged by a Nato aircraft to reduce the threat.

It was that air attack — which destroyed around a dozen cars — that dispersed the convoy into several groups, the largest numbering about As NTC fighters descended on the fleeing groups of cars, some individuals jumped from their vehicles to escape on foot, among them Gaddafi and a group of guards. Finding a trail of blood, NTC fighters followed it to a sandy culvert with two storm drains.

In one of these Gaddafi was hiding. Accounts here differ. According to some fighters quoted after the event, he begged his captors not to shoot. What is certain from several of the clips of video footage — most telling that shot by Ali Algadi — is that Gaddafi was dazed but still alive, although possibly already fatally wounded.

The question is what happens between this and later images of a lifeless Gaddafi lying on the ground having his shirt stripped off and propped in the back of a pickup truck and the next sequence which shows him dead. Here the accounts differ wildly. According to one fighter, caught on camera, he was shot in the stomach with a 9mm pistol. According to doctors not present at his capture and ambulance staff, Gaddafi was shot in the head.

A huge portrait of Muammar Gaddafi marks the entrance of Bani Walid: 10 chaotic years since the Libyan dictator's death, residents of the desert town still hanker for his rule. Unfinished concrete buildings litter the town of some , people on the edge of the Sahara desert, many of them scarred by bullets and mortar rounds fired during over a decade of conflict. Rebels killed Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte on October 20, , months into the NATO-backed rebellion that ended his four-decade rule.

Residents of Bani Walid, a stronghold of the Warfala tribe -- the country's biggest and a key pillar of Gaddafi's rule -- had backed him to the bitter end. Many fighters from the town were killed, with more dying in further battles when rival militia groups attacked.

Today, dusty wind whips through the town centre, where a decommissioned tank overlooks a dried-up fountain and a board bearing pictures of "martyrs" hangs above a pile of mortar shells. NATO not only bombed the pipeline but finished off the project by bombing the factory producing the pipes necessary to repair it. This is at odds with the geostrategic and political economic ambitions of extra-continental European powers, namely the US.

Hilary Clinton's emails shed light on another enigma remarked on by early commentators. Why, within weeks of initiating fighting, did the rebels set up their own central bank? I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising.

There the matter would have remained - suspicious but unverified, like so many stories of fraud and corruption - but for the publication of Hillary Clinton's emails after an FBI probe. They add substantial weight to Newman's suspicions: violent intervention was not chiefly about the security of the people.

This article and thousands of others like it. Subscribe now and get your first month free. Continue Reading. Already a subscriber? Log in. Sign in to post comments or join now only takes a moment. This is such a great blog. Thank you for sharing your talent with everyone. You are an inspiration. Gaddafi was the ruthless dictator of a country with few people and a lot of oil.

Black gold pouring out of the ground. His people did not share in this wealth. He played the fool sometimes but make no mistake, if you lived in Libya and tried to oppose him, even a comment or offhand remark - and you and your family would pay dearly. People seriously underestimate the lengths to which the West goes to maintain its supremacy.

African leaders are vilified and the public in the West buys it all. Very depressing. Are there any plans for this to be revived? Institution would have challenged the power of the dollar and finally allowed Africa!

Issue 95, 19th February Ellen Brown American author, attorney, public speaker and advocate of public banking reform. She is the founder and president of the Public Banking Institute. Mission accomplished?