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Gaddafi buried in unknown place in desert: Al- Jazeera
October 25, 2011, Tuesday
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FORMER Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was buried early this morning in a secret location in the desert, Al-Jazeera television reported, quoting an official of the ruling Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC).
The report didn't give further details on the burial. It is not immediately known whether the body of Gaddafi's son Mutassim was also interred together with that of his father.
The burial ended a rare, disturbing nearly five-day public display of Gaddafi's corpse in a cold meat storage container in the western Libyan coastal city of Misrata. Mutassim's body was also put on show in the container.
Reuters reported yesterday NTC fighters guarding the corpses "placed plastic sheeting under them as fluids leak." The footage of Al Jazeera TV showed Monday that people were still being allowed into the temporary morgue to visit and take photos of the rotting corpses.
Gaddafi's tribe and family demanded the corpses be handed over to them for a quick burial in Sirte under Islamic traditions. The request was turned down by the NTC, which had been divided on the rite, time and location for Gaddafi's burial.
NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil said yesterday that in response to international calls, the NTC has started to form a committee to look into the circumstances of Gaddafi's killing after he was captured in Sirte last week.
Jalil said that "those who helped Muammar Gaddafi" have played an effective role in killing him. The NTC chief did not elaborate on his claim.
Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron grip, and his son Mutassim were captured alive Thursday when NTC forces wrested full control of his hometown of Sirte. But both of them died in murky circumstances shortly after being seized by NTC fighters.
On Friday, the United Nations human rights body called for an investigation into how Gaddafi was killed Thursday, after satellite TV channels broadcast a footage of Gaddafi being captured wounded but alive with blood stains on the face and then pushed by fighters onto a truck, and another video later emerged showing Gaddafi's body on the lap of a fighter with a bullet hole in his forehead.
The mysterious clouds hovering over Gaddafi's death have already dented the NTC's credibility. Mishan al-Jbouri, owner of a pro-Gaddafi television channel based in Syria, told Xinhua in an interview that after the whole world saw the ugly way Gaddafi was killed, no country would risk handing the rest of the family to the NTC.
The report didn't give further details on the burial. It is not immediately known whether the body of Gaddafi's son Mutassim was also interred together with that of his father.
The burial ended a rare, disturbing nearly five-day public display of Gaddafi's corpse in a cold meat storage container in the western Libyan coastal city of Misrata. Mutassim's body was also put on show in the container.
Reuters reported yesterday NTC fighters guarding the corpses "placed plastic sheeting under them as fluids leak." The footage of Al Jazeera TV showed Monday that people were still being allowed into the temporary morgue to visit and take photos of the rotting corpses.
Gaddafi's tribe and family demanded the corpses be handed over to them for a quick burial in Sirte under Islamic traditions. The request was turned down by the NTC, which had been divided on the rite, time and location for Gaddafi's burial.
NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil said yesterday that in response to international calls, the NTC has started to form a committee to look into the circumstances of Gaddafi's killing after he was captured in Sirte last week.
Jalil said that "those who helped Muammar Gaddafi" have played an effective role in killing him. The NTC chief did not elaborate on his claim.
Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron grip, and his son Mutassim were captured alive Thursday when NTC forces wrested full control of his hometown of Sirte. But both of them died in murky circumstances shortly after being seized by NTC fighters.
On Friday, the United Nations human rights body called for an investigation into how Gaddafi was killed Thursday, after satellite TV channels broadcast a footage of Gaddafi being captured wounded but alive with blood stains on the face and then pushed by fighters onto a truck, and another video later emerged showing Gaddafi's body on the lap of a fighter with a bullet hole in his forehead.
The mysterious clouds hovering over Gaddafi's death have already dented the NTC's credibility. Mishan al-Jbouri, owner of a pro-Gaddafi television channel based in Syria, told Xinhua in an interview that after the whole world saw the ugly way Gaddafi was killed, no country would risk handing the rest of the family to the NTC.
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