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Gaddafi's body was displayed alongside that of his son Mutassim, who was killed by Misratan fighters after his capture in Sirte on 20 October 2011. The younger Gaddafi's body was removed from the refrigerator for burial at the same time as his father's, on 24 October 2011. [39]
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [pron 1] (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by the rebel forces of the National Liberation Army in 2011.
The Libyan Civil War began on 15 February 2011 as a chain of civil protests and later evolved into a widespread uprising against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.On 25 February, most of eastern Libya was reported to be under the control of protesters and rebel forces. [1]
[38] [39] Gaddafi became a bogeyman for Western governments, [2] who presented him as the "vicious dictator of an oppressed people". [9] For these critics, Gaddafi was "despotic, cruel, arrogant, vain and stupid," [40] with Pargeter noting that "for many years, he came to be personified in the international media as a kind of super villain." [41]
O n Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, plus another 11 died when the wreckage fell over ...
Correa demanded that the UN investigate Gaddafi's death as well as the death of Mutassim Gaddafi and the earlier deaths of Saif al-Arab Gaddafi and two of Gaddafi's grandchildren in Tripoli. [76] Uruguay – President Jose Mujica said that Gaddafi's death "seems that nation have no right to self-determination." [77]
Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib. On 23 October 2011, the National Transitional Council officially declared that Libya had been liberated. [12]Libya's de facto Prime Minister, Mahmoud Jibril announced that consultations were under way to form an interim government within one month, followed by elections for a constitutional assembly within eight months and parliamentary and ...
Sharabi did appear to know, however, that his brother Yossi – who was also taken hostage by Hamas – had subsequently died in Gaza, where his body remains, according to the Israeli military.