Libya: The End of Qaddafi and the Fall of Sirte

Libya: The End of Qaddafi and the Fall of Sirte

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/libya-the-end-of-qaddafi-and-the-fall-of-sirte/100173/

Muammar Qaddafi has been killed in fighting in Sirte, according Libya’s National Transitional Council. Anti-government fighters had been closing in on Qaddafi’s final stronghold in Sirte, and reportedly attacked a convoy carrying the former leader today, capturing him. Qaddafi was apparently alive at the time, but died soon afterward. The uprising that began in February and built to an armed revolution has now claimed control of the country, the death of Qaddafi, and the capture of one of his sons today. Collected here are images from Sirte over the past ten days, and of the events surrounding the death of Qaddafi