Muammar Gaddafi’s ‘trophy’ body on show in Misrata meat store

Guardian
October 22, 2011

Bloodied, wearing just a pair of khaki trousers, and dumped on a cheap mattress, Muammar Gaddafi‘s body has become a gruesome tourist attraction and a macabre symbol of the new Libya‘s problems.

Hundreds of ordinary Libyans queued up outside a refrigerated meat store in Misrata, where the dead dictator was being stored as a trophy. A guard allowed small groups into the room to celebrate next to Gaddafi’s body. They posed for photos, flashing victory signs, and burst into jubilant cries of “God is great.”

Wounds on Gaddafi’s body appeared to confirm that he was indeed killed in cold blood in the chaotic minutes following his capture on Thursday. He was found in the town of Sirte, hiding in a drainage pipe. There was a close-range bullet wound on the left side of his head. Blood stains showed another bullet wound to his thorax. His body, subsequently driven to Misrata and publicly paraded, was barefoot and stripped to the waist.

Late on Friday the Gaddafi clan demanded a chance to bury the body. In a statement on a Syria-based pro-Gaddafi television station, the ousted dictator’s family asked for the bodies of Gaddafi, his son Mo’tassim and others who were killed on Thursday by fighters who overran his hometown Sirte.

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3 Responses to “Muammar Gaddafi’s ‘trophy’ body on show in Misrata meat store”

  1. He gave NATO the diplomatic green light back in (February?) with two damning words:

    “No mercy”.

    After that his fate was sealed. His enemies became victims of a fabricated villainy of Gaddafi’s own creation.

    “No mercy” is exactly what he got in the end.

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  2. Too inhuman to believe. This body does indeed appear to be Gahdaffi. The pictures say more about global culture catching up with a devolving sensability than about his dictatorship.

    If his death and the destruction of Libya is a step up, please explain it in detail. Give a mob guns and watch the slaughter begin.

    Don’t blame either H. Clinton nor Obama; they are puppets, the public face of a very wicked coterie of dangerous, deformed personalities. Libya today; the US tomorrow.

  3. How very 6th century of them. (Except for the 20th century refrigeration technology.) Remember, this is the Obama-style “democracy” at its finest. Next on the chopping block there? The black Christians in southern Libya. Get ready. And pray for their divine protection, because they aren’t gonna get any earthly protection from those “Libyan Springers”, much less from the Obama/Clinton gang.

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