Gaddafi Killed - Al Jazeera ( VIDEO )

Gaddafi Before He Was Killed


Gaddafi Killed - Al Jazeera ( VIDEO )

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Reports indicate deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is dead, the National Transitional Council spokesman said Thursday.
Revolutionary fighters attacked the house where Gadhafi was hiding, Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam told CNN. Gadhafi was shot while trying to flee, he said.
"Colonel Gadhafi is history," he said, adding that interim council's chairman or prime minister needs to officially confirm the death.
A grisly cell phone video aired on Al-Jazeera Arabic showed a bloodied Gadhafi with a wound to his head. A cell phone photograph distributed by the news agency Agence France Presse also appeared to show Gadhafi severely wounded. CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the images.

Abdel Hakim Bilhajj, head of the National Transitional Council's military arm in Tripoli, announced Gadhafi's death live on Al-Jazeera Arabic Thursday.
"Gadhafi was killed at the hands of the Libyans and I announce the great news to every mother and to every Libyan who suffered, fought, and sacrificed for long," Bilhajj said.
Gadhafi's death was also reported by National Transitional Council television station Al-Ahrar. It did not cite a source.
Gadhafi's capture was also reported by Libyan television, citing the Misrata Military Council.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who visited Tripoli this week, could not confirm Gadhafi's capture or killing but said it would "add legitimacy and relief to the formation of a new government."
Abubaker Saad, who served as a Gadhafi aide for nine years, said it didn't really matter whether Gadhafi was dead or alive -- as long as he was no longer a fugitive.
"As long as he was on the run he represented a very ominous danger to the Libyan people," Saad told CNN. "He represented a very ominous danger ... to the idea of the democracy in Libya."
Saad said he never saw Gadhafi sleep in the same place two nights in a row.

Gaddafi hiding place

Hiding hole: A fighter points to the concrete pipe where Gaddafi was reportedly found. Arabic graffiti in blue reads: 'This is the place of Gaddafi, the rat. God is the greatest'








Gaddafi Last Moment

Captured image: A mobile phone picture, purporting to be that of wounded leader Muammar Gaddafi, was circulated shortly after the news of his capture broke

Double celebration: Anti-Gaddafi fighters celebrate the fall of Sirte, but the news soon came that the leader himself had been captured