TRIPOLI NATO is to formally decide on Wednesday whether to end its mission over Libya now that Muammar Gaddafi is dead and buried and the country's new leaders have declared the nation "liberated". 
 
 The likely decision to end the alliance's patrols over the skies of Libya at the end of the month marks another milestone in what the National Transitional Council (NTC) has pledged will be a road toward democracy and free and fair elections in 2013. 
 
 But the deaths of Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim after both were captured wounded but alive on Thursday and the grisly public display of their decomposing bodies in a Misrata meat locker have made the NTC's Western backers uneasy about Libya's prospects for stable government and respect for the rule of law. 
 
 Gaddafi and Mo'tassim were buried in a secret desert location on Tuesday to prevent their graves becoming a shrine for any remaining followers in the oil-rich North African state. 
 
 Under pressure from Western allies, the NTC promised on Monday to investigate how Gaddafi and his son were killed. Mobile phone footage shows both alive after their capture. The former leader was seen being mocked, beaten and abused before he died, in what NTC officials say was crossfire. 
 
 The treatment of others who supported Gaddafi and fought alongside him was now an issue, said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman. 
 
 "This is a test. The NTC has repeatedly said that they will distinguish themselves from the Gaddafi regime in terms of the respect of human rights and the rule of law," he told a news conference in Morocco. 
 
 "Now is the time for them to begin actions that will help them reinforce these words." 
 
 RIVALRIES 
 
 Emerging from 42 years of often brutal one-man rule, many Libyans are savoring the end of eight months of bitter civil war won with NATO's backing and are unconcerned about how Gaddafi met his end and how his body was treated afterwards. 
 
 "Throw him in a hole, in the sea, in garbage. No matter. He is lower than a donkey or a dog and only foreigners say they care about how we killed him. And they are lying," said engineer Ali Azzarog, 47. 
 
 Hatred of Gaddafi unified his disparate opponents, who will likely now tussle for power during a planned transition to democracy in a nation riven with regional and tribal rivalries. 
 
 With economic problems at home, NATO countries are expected to endorse an end to their U.N.-mandated mission in Libya when their ambassadors meet in Brussels on Wednesday after a preliminary decision last week to end it on October 31. 
 
 "We said that we would consult closely with the United Nations and the NTC and that process of consultations is ongoing," NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said. 
 
 Libyan interim Oil and Finance Minister Ali Tarhouni said he wanted NATO to maintain its mission for another month, but hoped for a swift end to United Nations sanctions to free up funds for the interim government to pay salaries and help reconstruction. 
 
 SAIF ON THE RUN 
 
 NATO spokeswoman Lungescu declined to say whether NATO might extend the mission. 
 
 "I don't know whether there is a formal request. All these things remain to be sorted out. But in the end this is a political decision," she said. 
 
 NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, James Appathurai, said he expected the alliance to confirm its decision to end the mission. 
 
 "I don't expect that there will be a change to that decision, because it is quite clear that the pro-Gaddafi elements no longer have the command and control or other capabilities to pose an organized threat to civilians. That is now finished, and as a result our operation will end," he said. 
 
 Western military powers have already begun winding down the Libyan mission, and diplomats have said the majority of NATO equipment, including fighter jets, has already been withdrawn. 
 
 A NATO statement on Tuesday said operations in the interim would involve intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, although NATO would retain the capability to conduct air strikes if they were needed. 
 
 The one remaining element from the old order is Gaddafi's sons, the enigmatic Saif al-Islam, who remains on the run. Once viewed as a moderate reformer, he vowed to help his father crush his enemies once the revolt began. 
 
 An NTC official said Saif al-Islam was in the southern desert near Niger and Algeria and was set to flee Libya using a false passport. 
 
 (Reporting by Taha Zargoun in Sirte, Barry Malone and Jessica Donati in Tripoli, Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor in Misrata, Christian Lowe, Jon Hemming and Andrew Hammond in Tunis, Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Samia Nakhoul in Dubai, Abdoulaye Massalaatchi in Niamey, Matt Falloon in London, Souhail Karam in Rabat; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by David Stamp and Ralph Gowling) ||||| Revolutionary fighters celebrate the capture of Sirte, Libya, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Officials in Libya's transitional government said Moammar Gadhafi was captured and possibly killed Thursday when... (Associated Press) 
 
 Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's dictator for 42 years until he was ousted in an uprising-turned-civil war, was killed Thursday as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte and captured the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell. 
 
 Interim government officials said one of Gadhafi's sons, his former national security adviser Muatassim, was also killed in Sirte and another, one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam, was wounded and captured. 
 
 The 69-year-old Gadhafi is the first leader to be killed in the Arab Spring wave of popular uprisings that swept the Middle East, demanding the end of autocratic rulers and the establishment of greater democracy. 
 
 "We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Moammar Gadhafi has been killed," Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told a news conference in the capital Tripoli. 
 
 His death decisively ends a regime that had turned Libya into an international pariah and ran the oil-rich nation by the whim and brutality of its notoriously eccentric leader. Libya stands on the cusp of a new era, but its turmoil may not be over. The former rebels who now rule are disorganized and face rebuilding a country virtually without institutions by Gadhafi's design. They have already shown signs of infighting, with divisions between geographical areas and Islamist and more secular ideologies. 
 
 Libya's new leaders had said they would declare the country's "liberation" after the fall of Sirte. 
 
 President Obama said Gadhafi's death "marks the end of a long and painful chapter" for Libya. Vice President Joe Biden said the Libyan people had rid themselves of a dictator and have now "got a chance" with Gadhafi gone. 
 
 Footage aired on Arab TV networks showed Gadhafi was captured wounded but alive in Sirte. The goateed, balding Gadhafi is seen in a blood-soaked shirt, and his face bloodied. Standing upright, he is shoved along by a crowd of fighters on a Sirte roadside, chanting "God is great." 
 
 Gadhafi appears to struggle against them, stumbling and shouting as the fighters push him onto the hood of a pickup truck. 
 
 "We want him alive. We want him alive," one man shouts before Gadhafi is dragged away, some fighters pulling his hair, toward an ambulance. Later footage showed fighters rolling Gadhafi's lifeless body over on the pavement, stripped to the waist and a pool of blood under his head. 
 
 Out of initial confusion, a clearer picture began to emerge of Gadhafi's last hours, though there were still contradictions. 
 
 Most accounts agreed Gadhafi had been holed up with heavily armed supporters in the last few buildings held by regime loyalists in his Mediterranean coastal hometown of Sirte, furiously battling advancing revolutionary fighters. 
 
 At one point, a convoy tried to flee and was hit by NATO airstrikes, carried out by French warplanes. France's Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said the 80-vehicle convoy was carrying Gadhafi and was trying to escape the city. The strikes stopped the convoy but did not destroy it, and then revolutionary fighters moved in on the vehicle carrying Gadhafi himself. 
 
 Fathi Bashaga, spokesman for the Misrata military council, whose forces were involved in the Sirte siege, said fighters encircled the convoy and exchanged fire with several of the vehicles. In one, they found Gadhafi, wounded in the neck, and took him to an ambulance. "What do you want?" Gadhafi said to the approaching revolutionaries, Bashaga said, citing witnesses. 
 
 Gadhafi bled to death from his wounds a half-hour later, he said. 
 
 Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, a doctor who was part of the medical team that accompanied the body in the ambulance and examined it, said Gadhafi died from two bullet wounds, to the head and chest. 
 
 "You can't imagine my happiness today. I can't describe my happiness," he told The Associated Press. "The tyranny is gone. Now the Libyan people can rest." 
 
 Gadhafi's body was then paraded through the streets of the nearby city of Misrata on top of a vehicle surrounded by a large crowd chanting, "The blood of the martyrs will not go in vain," according to footage aired on Al-Arabiya television. The fighters who killed Gadhafi are believed to have come from Misrata, a city that suffered a brutal weeks-long siege by Gadhafi's forces during the eight-month long civil war. 
 
 Celebratory gunfire and cries of "God is Great" rang out across the capital Tripoli. Cars honked their horns and people hugged each other. In Sirte, the ecstatic former rebels celebrated the city's fall after weeks of bloody siege by firing endless rounds into the sky, pumping their guns, knives and even a meat cleaver in the air and singing the national anthem. 
 
 The capture of Sirte, the death of Gadhafi, and the death and capture of his two most powerful sons, gives the transitional leaders confidence to declare the entire country "liberated" as they have said they would do. 
 
 It rules out a scenario that some had feared _ that he might flee deeper into Libya's southern deserts and lead a resistance campaign against Libya's rulers. 
 
 Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam told AP that Muatassim Gadhafi was killed in Sirte. The justice minister said Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, had been wounded in the leg and was being held in a hospital in the city of Zlitan, northwest of Sirte. 
 
 Sirte's fall caps weeks of heavy, street-by-street battles as revolutionary fighters besieged the city. Despite the fall of Tripoli on Aug. 21, Gadhafi loyalists mounted fierce resistance in several areas, including Sirte, preventing Libya's new leaders from declaring full victory in the eight-month civil war. Earlier this week, revolutionary fighters gained control of one stronghold, Bani Walid. 
 
 By Tuesday, fighters said they had squeezed Gadhafi's forces in Sirte into a residential area of about 700 square yards but were still coming under heavy fire from surrounding buildings. 
 
 In an illustration of how heavy the fighting has been, it took the anti-Gadhafi fighters two days to capture a single residential building. 
 
 Reporters watched as the final assault began around 8 a.m. Thursday and ended about 90 minutes later. Just before the battle, about five carloads of Gadhafi loyalists tried to flee the enclave down the coastal highway that leads out of the city. But they were met by gunfire from the revolutionaries, who killed at least 20 of them. 
 
 Col. Roland Lavoie, spokesman for NATO's operational headquarters in Naples, Italy, said the alliance's aircraft Thursday morning struck two vehicles of pro-Gadhafi forces "which were part of a larger group maneuvering in the vicinity of Sirte." 
 
 The Misrata Military Council, one of the command groups, said its fighters captured Gadhafi. 
 
 One fighter who said he was at the battle told AP Television News that the final fight took place at an opulent compound for visiting dignitaries built by Gadhafi's regime. Adel Busamir said the convoy tried to break out but after being hit it turned back and re-entered the compound. Several hundred fighters assaulted. 
 
 "We found him there," Busamir said. "We saw them beating him (Gadhafi) and someone shot him with a 9mm pistol ... then they took him away." 
 
 Military spokesman Col. Ahmed Bani in Tripoli told Al-Jazeera TV that a wounded Gadhafi "tried to resist (revolutionary forces) so they took him down." 
 
 "I reassure everyone that this story has ended and this book has closed," he said. 
 
 After the battle, revolutionaries began searching homes and buildings looking for any hiding Gadhafi fighters. At least 16 were captured, along with cases of ammunition and trucks loaded with weapons. Reporters saw revolutionaries beating captured Gadhafi men in the back of trucks and officers intervening to stop them. 
 
 In the central quarter where Thursday's final battle took place, the fighters looking like the same ragtag force that started the uprising eight months ago jumped up and down with joy and flashed V-for-victory signs. Some burned the green Gadhafi flag, then stepped on it with their boots. 
 
 They chanted "God is great" while one fighter climbed a traffic light pole to unfurl the revolution's flag, which he first kissed. Discarded military uniforms of Gadhafi's fighters littered the streets. One revolutionary fighter waved a silver trophy in the air while another held up a box of firecrackers, then set them off. 
 
 "Our forces control the last neighborhood in Sirte," Hassan Draoua, a member of Libya's interim National Transitional Council, told The Associated Press in Tripoli. "The city has been liberated." 
 
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 Associated Press Writer Kim Gamel in Tripoli contributed to this report. ||||| Former Libyan leader killed in apparent attempt to flee last bastion, but circumstances of his death remain unclear. 
 
 Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in the toppled Libyan leader's hometown and final stronghold of Sirte. But questions remained on Thursday over the circumstances of Gaddafi's death as footage appeared to show he had been captured alive, following an apparent attempt to flee the besieged coastal city in a convoy which came under fire from French warplanes and a US drone aircraft. Other footage showed Gaddafi's lifeless and bloodied body being dragged along a road. "We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed," Mahmoud Jibril, the de facto Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday in Tripoli, the capital. Asked what would be done with Gaddafi's body, he said: "It doesn't make any difference, as long as he disappears". Jibril said Gaddafi had been shot in the head "in crossfire" between his supporters and NTC fighters after his capture. "He was alive up to last moment, until he arrived at hospital" in the city of Misrata, Jibril said. After his death, Gaddafi's body was reportedly transferred to a mosque in the city. Crowds took to the streets of Sirte, Tripoli, Misrata and Benghazi, the eastern city that spearheaded the uprising against Gaddafi's 42-year rule in February, to celebrate the news, with some firing guns and waving Libya's new flag. "I'm so proud now," a Tripoli resident told Al Jazeera."It's a new era. Look to our eyes and you'll see happiness, finally". Son killed One of Gaddafi's sons, Mutassim, was also killed on Thursday, having been hiding with his father, Mahmoud Shammam, Libya's information minister said. Earlier reports had suggested that he had been captured alive but injured. News of Gaddafi's death, weeks after NTC fighters effectively ended his four-decades rule by capturing Tripoli, came shortly after the NTC captured Sirte after weeks of fierce fighting. Mutassim Gaddafi at the White House in 2009 [Getty] Fighters flashing V for victory took to the streets in pick-ups blaring out patriotic music. "Thank God they have caught this person. In one hour, Sirte was liberated," a fighter said. Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley, reporting from Sirte, said Libyans there were celebrating the beginning of a "new Libya". "This is bringing a form of closure," he said. "Gaddafi stayed true to his words, that he would stay in Libya till the end. "It was surprising to many that he did actually stay here in Sirte - it's taken such a bombardment in the last 13 days. Nothing could survive in here for very long. I think they were starved of food, starved of ammunition, and finally there was nothing to do but to run". French 'warning shot' Gerard Longuet, France's defence minister, said French warplanes had fired a warning shot to stop a convoy of vehicles carrying Gaddafi before he was killed. The convoy of several dozen vehicles "was stopped from progressing as it sought to flee Sirte but was not destroyed by the French intervention," Longuet told reporters. Libyan fighters then intervened, destroying the vehicles, from which "they took out Colonel Gaddafi," he said. 
 
 The NTC's Mahmoud Jibril on Gaddafi's death A US defence official told AFP news agency that a US drone along with a French fighter jet had attacked a convoy of vehicles in Libya that the French believed was carrying Gaddafi. In Tripoli, Jibril said he had received unconfirmed reports that Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, was trying to flee from Sirte but had been tracked down by NTC fighters who were attacking his convoy. Later reports suggested that Saif had been injured and arrested. Footage had emerged earlier in the day of the body of Abu Bakr Younus, Gaddafi's defence minister, who also died in what would become the last stand of the regime he served. Abdul Hakim Al Jalil, commander of the NTC's 11th brigade, said that Moussa Ibrahim, the former spokesman for Gaddafi's fallen government, had been captured near Sirte. Ahmed Ibrahim, a cousin of Gaddafi, was also reportedly captured. 'Historic transition' Reaction from world leaders was swift, US President Barack Obama saying that the Libyan people had won their revolution. "Across the Arab world, citizens have stood up to claim their rights," he said. "Youth are delivering a powerful rebuke to dictatorship. And those leaders who try to deny their dignity will not succeed. "For the region, today's events prove once more that the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end." Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said Gaddafi's death marked "a historic transition for Libya". Click here for more of Al Jazeera's special coverage "In the coming days, we will witness scenes of celebration as well as grief for those who lost so much," Ban said in New York. "Now is the time for all Libyans to come together. Libyans can only realise the promise of the future for national unity and reconciliation." NATO officials said the alliance's governing body would meet on Friday to decide to end the seven-month bombing campaign over Libya. "NATO and our partners have successfully implemented the historic mandate of the United Nations to protect the people of Libya," Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a statement. "We will terminate our mission in co-ordination with the United Nations and the National Transitional Council. With the reported fall of Bani Walid and Sirte, that moment has now moved much closer". ||||| Deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed in the city of his birth as Libyan forces overtook his last remaining stronghold, setting the stage for the country to reinvent itself after a 42-year dictatorship. Margaret Coker has details on The News Hub. 
 
 Deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was shot and killed as Libyan forces overtook the city of his birth and last remaining stronghold, setting the stage for the nation to reinvent itself after a 42-year dictatorship. 
 
 The dramatic victory by Libyan revolutionaries at the city of Sirte appeared to mark the end of major ground combat in the eight-month armed uprising and the imminent conclusion of the international air campaign that helped rebel forces defeat Col. Gadhafi's army. 
 
 Yet Gadhafi's demise starts a new, uncertain chapter in Libya's revolution and poses fresh challenges to the various powers that have been vying to fill the vacuum left when Gadhafi was driven from the capital in late August. 
 
 Enlarge Image Close Main photo: European Pressphoto Agency; Associated Press (2) DEATH OF A DICTATOR: After seizing power in 1969, Gadhafi clashed with the U.S., sponsored terrorism and avoided assassination. It all ended Thursday. NATO's air strategy is gaining praise. Pictured above, Gadhafi, left in 2009; top right at Cairo airport in 1970; bottom right in 1977. 
 
 News of Gadhafi's death—the first leader killed in this season of uprisings across the Arab world—sparked jubilant celebrations across Libya, as citizens absorbed the news that the man who ruled over them with an iron fist for most of the nation's modern history was gone. 
 
 From midday into the night, streets in downtown Tripoli were mobbed with honking cars and families shouting for joy, while the city's mosques chanted celebratory prayers. In Misrata, crowds of men lined up to see the corpses of the former leader and his son. 
 
 In remote villages along Libya's main coastal highway west of Tripoli, dozens of people remained in the streets before dawn Friday morning, waving flags, pumping their fists in the air and chanting in celebration. Officials said commercial flights into and out of Tripoli were canceled because of the celebratory gunfire. 
 
 The fear that Moammar Gadhafi might somehow reclaim power had continued to weigh on Libyans. Now, with the death of the dictator who ruled his people for 42 years, Libya can move forward. WSJ's Neil Hickey reports from Washington. 
 
 "This is the greatest moment for Libya. The criminal is dead to us and to history," said Amis Asawiyeh, a 24-year-old resident of the Tripoli suburb of Tajoura. 
 
 There were conflicting reports about the events surrounding the death of the 69-year-old former leader, and initial reports were viewed with skepticism, after multiple previous false accounts of the demise of members of the Gadhafi family. 
 
 Late in the day, interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said a slightly wounded Gadhafi had been pulled from a hiding place in a sewage pipe, shot in the arm, and later killed by a shot in the head by crossfire. 
 
 He said it was unclear who fired the fatal shot but insisted that no rebel fighter had orders to kill Gadhafi. 
 
 Gruesome cellphone videos made by fighters from Misrata and transmitted around the world appeared to show a captive Gadhafi still alive, and then, his face and clothes bloodied, apparently dead. 
 
 As the day progressed, leaders around the world decided it was time to declare victory. "Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end," said President Barack Obama from the White House. "One of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more." 
 
 Mr. Obama called attention to the efforts of the U.S. and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to stop Gadhafi's forces—presenting Thursday's events as the latest in a series of national security and foreign-policy successes that included the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May. 
 
 Later, in the Oval Office, Mr. Obama said the success in Libya vindicated his multilateral approach to the conflict. "We did exactly what we said we were going to do in Libya," he told reporters. 
 
 Among those marking the news of Gadhafi's demise were those who lost loved ones to terrorist attacks believed to be the work of his regime. 
 
 Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, whose father was killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, said she cried when she heard that Gadhafi was dead. 
 
 "I know the world is a better place without that man in it," she said. 
 
 NATO's supreme commander, Adm. James Stavridis, is likely to make recommendations on Friday about when to end the air campaign, a NATO official said. 
 
 The Misrata council also confirmed the death of one of the former leader's sons, Mutassim Gadhafi, and his longtime defense chief, Abu Baker Younis. 
 
 Officials from the National Transitional Council, the rebel-led national governing authority, said another son, Seif al-Islam, had been wounded Thursday, although his whereabouts couldn't be independently confirmed. 
 
 Thursday's dramatic developments are expected to kick-start what has already become a bare-knuckle political fight to fill the power vacuum in the oil-rich North African country. 
 
 Armed militias, religious leaders and regional luminaries face the challenge of setting aside the military tactics that toppled Gadhafi and donning unaccustomed political skills to join the NTC in the transition from tyranny to democracy. 
 
 In a sign of the uncertainty of the transition, Mr. Jibril spoke to journalists to confirm Gadhafi's death on Thursday, but didn't announce a formal end to the armed conflict or give any detail about a timeline for elections. 
 
 WSJ reporter Guy Chazan and Mean Street host Evan Newmark discuss the impact of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's death on oil markets. AP Photo/Hassene Dridi 
 
 Over the summer, the NTC worked up a blueprint plan that envisioned a 20-month political transition of three stages. The first would see the interim council expanded to at least 65 representatives from all regions of the country, which would govern for eight months until elections could be held. 
 
 Those polls would elect an interim congress that would rule for less than a year and help to draft a new constitution for the country. 
 
 That period would be followed by a second election to chose a permanent government and head of state, according to the blueprint. 
 
 But NTC leaders have repeatedly delayed a promised shift to more equitably share power between the men who have been running the administrative functions from the eastern city of Benghazi since the start of the revolution and Libya's far-flung regions and cities that freed themselves from Gadhafi's rule more recently. 
 
 Col. Moammar Gadhafi died from wounds sustained during a final push to capture his hometown of Sirte, the last remaining stronghold of the former leader, according to Libyan military and political leaders. Margaret Coker has details on Lunch Break. 
 
 Col. Moammar Gadhafi died from wounds sustained during a final push to seize control of his hometown of Sirte, according to Libyan military and political leaders, John Bussey reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Reuters. 
 
 Mr. Jibril and NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil face accusations of cronyism and widespread dissatisfaction with their tenure, and they have so far not grappled very well with the intensifying regional and tribal grievances. 
 
 With no working judicial institutions, armed militias that control the streets in Tripoli and elsewhere in the country are taking the law into their own hands, arresting suspected Gadhafi loyalists or local troublemakers, often without any semblance of due process. 
 
 Now, many fear that with Col. Gadhafi's death the one symbol unifying them could cause factionalism to break down into civil war. 
 
 "The one thing that held all the rebels together was the presence of Moammar Gadhafi," said Kamran Bokhari, an analyst with the Stratfor think tank. "The next question is whether these rebel forces will continue to be able to hold their unity and not descend into a situation of chaos and civil war." 
 
 Much of the political tensions focus on Mr. Jibril, a technocrat and former regime official. He helped to craft the NATO military strategy and foster ties with Western governments, but has been criticized for a lack of domestic political skills. 
 
 One area where resentment against the NTC has grown is Misrata, Libya's third-largest city, which has fostered a strong regional identity through heavy losses during the revolution. 
 
 That their fighters led the assault on Sirte and announced the capture and death of Gadhafi could increase their lobbying to make one of their hometown leaders a new interim prime minister. 
 
 —Charles Levinson in Sabratha, Libya, Julian E. Barnes, Sam Dagher and Jared A. Favole contributed to this article. 
 
 Write to Margaret Coker at margaret.coker@wsj.com
– What exactly transpired in Moammar Gadhafi's last moments remains unclear. A video from Al Jazeera shows a badly injured Gadhafi captured alive and being loaded by anti-Gadhafi fighters into an ambulance in Sirte. (The grisly video along with photos are in the gallery.) He was dead soon after: New York Times: "Conflicting accounts quickly emerged about whether (Gadhafi) was executed by his captors, died from gunshot wounds sustained in a firefight, was killed in a NATO bomb blast or bled to death in an ambulance." Reuters: It quotes a source in Libya's National Transitional Council: "They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed. He might have been resisting." Wall Street Journal: "Gadhafi was shot and wounded in Sirte and died in an ambulance en route to Misrata, said Misrata Military Council spokesman Fathi Bashagha." Associated Press: "Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, a doctor who was part of the medical team that accompanied the body in the ambulance and examined it, said Gadhafi died from two bullet wounds, to the head and chest."