THE RISE AND FALL OF GADDAFI: An image captured off a cellular phone camera shows the arrest of Libya’s strongman Moamer Kadhafi in Sirte on October 20, 2011. A Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) commander had told AFP that Kadhafi was captured as his hometown Sirte was falling, adding that the ousted strongman was badly wounded.
Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been killed in Sirte — after fighters took the city Thursday — a senior National Transitional Council (NTC) leaders has claimed.
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