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Admin Fields Highlight on Homepage: Highlight on Homepage Top Item: No Global Information Network, Fungai Maboreke Libyan Leader's Fall Was A Humiliating End For A TyrantOct. 25 (GIN) - Amid shouts of God is Great, anti-government rebels ended the life of Libyan strongman Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi in a widely-viewed orgy of bullets and beatings. The man who ruled his country with an iron fist died unceremoniously on Oct. 20 along with his son Mutassim in Sirt, the town of his birth.With Gaddafis death, a peoples movement, with back up from western NATO countries, ended 42 years of rule by one man."It's time to start a new Libya, a united Libya," Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril declared. "One people, one future."The gruesome details of the capture appeared almost instantly online, caught by rebel fighters' cameras as they pulled Gaddafi and his entourage from the hideout where they had run for refuge after their escape convoy was spotted by NATO planes. As the gruesome videos were uploaded, questions quickly emerged whether Gaddafi was brutalized in the moment of captureincluding one report of sodomyor died in crossfire. An investigation has been announced.read more
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