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Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured by NTC forces and executed shortly afterwards. [ 1 ] The NTC initially claimed Gaddafi succumbed to injuries sustained in a firefight when loyalist forces attempted to free him, although a video of his last moments shows rebel fighters beating him and one of them sodomizing him with a ...
Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [13] was born near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of Tripolitania, Italian western Libya. [14] His family came from a small, relatively uninfluential tribe called the Qadhadhfa , [ 15 ] who were Arab in heritage.
NATO announced that in light of Sirte's fall and the death of Gaddafi, it would end its military operations in Libya on 31 October. [ 163 ] On 23 October, reflecting its previous statements that it would consider the war to be finished with the capture of Sirte, [ 164 ] the NTC declared Libya to be "liberated" and announced plans for a ...
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In the affluent community of Englewood, N.J., Gaddafi purchased a sprawling 25-room mansion in 1982. For years, neighbors have bristled at the thought of living in such close proximity to a man ...
Costa Rica – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed "hope that the death of former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, allow the reconciliation of that African nation." [63] Cuba – On 23 October Fidel Castro condemned the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, and the "genocidal role" of NATO. He added also that "Gaddafi's body has been kidnapped ...
Gaddafi was captured in October 2011 and killed. That year, a son of Gaddafi’s – Saif-al-Islam Gaddafi – claimed to Euronews the Libyan state had donated up to €50m to his campaign.
The Second Gulf of Sidra offensive was a military operation in the First Libyan Civil War conducted by rebel anti-Gaddafi forces in August and September 2011 to take control of towns along the Gulf of Sidra in an effort to surround Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, which was held by pro-Gaddafi forces.