Not unlike Sadaam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi became the THIRD terror leader to meet his end since Americans entered the Iraq War.  Reuters correspondent Tim Gaynor describes how he was captured:

“Muammar Gaddafi made his final dash for freedom shortly before dawn prayers. Libya’s leader, a few dozen loyal bodyguards and the head of his now non-existent army Abu Bakr Younis Jabr, broke out of the two-month siege of his hometown Sirte and, forming a convoy of six dozen vehicles, raced through

the outskirts to the west.

They did not get far.

French aircraft struck military vehicles belonging to Gaddafi forces near Sirte at about 8:30 a.m. (0630 GMT), said officials.

Images and then video footage of the drama that followed were soon whizzing around the globe: a blood-stained and shaken Muammar Gaddafi dragged by angry fighters cuts away before what could have been the inglorious end, leaving open the question of how exactly the dictator died.

Gaddafi was still alive when he was captured outside Sirte. In video, filmed by a bystander in the crowd, he is shown dazed and wounded being heaved off a bonnet of a Toyota pick-up, dragged toward a car, then pulled to the ground by his hair.

“Keep him alive, keep him alive!” someone shouts.

But another man in the crowd lets out a high-pitched hysterical scream. Gaddafi then goes out of view and gunshots ring out.

“THEY BEAT HIM”

“They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed him,” one senior National Transitional Council source told Reuters. “He might have been resisting.”

In what appeared to contradict the events in the video, Libya’s ruling NTC said Gaddafi was shot in the head in crossfire between government troops and his own supporters after his capture. He died from the wound minutes before reaching hospital, the prime minister said,

but no order had been given to kill him.

A Reuters witness who saw Gaddafi’s body in Misrata on Friday said it bore a bullet hole in the side of the head, as well as a large bruise on one side and scratch marks. But who fired the shot and when is still unclear.

Gaddafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42 years of one-man rule “rats,” but in the end it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of rubbish and filth.”

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, Oct 21, 2011