"own people"". said U.S. Vice Admiral William E. Gortney. More than 110 ""Tomahawk"" cruise missiles were fired in an initial assault by U.S. warships and a British submarine against Libyan air defences. The last government holdouts in Sirte finally fell to anti-Gaddafi fighters on 20 October 2011, and, following the controversial death of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya was officially declared ""liberated"" on 23 October 2011, ending 42 years of Gaddafi's leadership in Libya. Political scientist Riadh Sidaoui suggested in October 2011 that Gaddafi ""has created a great void for his exercise of power: there is no institution, no army, no electoral"
"rumor of Khamis Gaddafi's death. The Associated Press described the report of Gaddafi's death as an unconfirmed rumor. Musa Ibrahim, the former spokesman of Muammar Gaddafi, personally disproved the message on the arrest saying he was not even in Libya and denied the most recent reports on the death of Khamis. On 24 October, government spokesman Nasser Al-Manaa retracted and apologised for false reports from the government and the National Congress regarding the killing of Gaddafi and the capture of Ibrahim. Khamis Gaddafi Khamis Gaddafi (27 May 1983 – 29 August 2011) was the seventh and youngest son of former"
"released by Saudi TV channel Al Arabiya show Mutassim Gaddafi lying dead on a hospital bed, with a gaping wounds in his throat and abdomen and one of his arms had been dislocated. Amateur photographs and videos showed his young captors and others defiling his corpse after his death. Like his father, he was denied a burial within a day after death in accordance with Islamic law. Mutassim Gaddafi Al-Mutassim Billah al-Gaddafi (, also transliterated as Al-Moa'tassem Bellah or Al-Mutasim; 18 December 1974 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan Army officer, and the National Security Advisor of Libya from"
"Mutassim Gaddafi Al-Mutassim Billah al-Gaddafi (, also transliterated as Al-Moa'tassem Bellah or Al-Mutasim; 18 December 1974 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan Army officer, and the National Security Advisor of Libya from 2008 until 2011. He was the fourth son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and a member of his father's inner circle. His mother was Safia Farkash. He was captured during the Battle of Sirte by NATO funded anti-Gaddafi forces, and executed along with his father. In April 2009, Mutassim Gaddafi met U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the highest-level diplomatic exchange between the two countries since"
"Khamis Gaddafi Khamis Gaddafi (27 May 1983 – 29 August 2011) was the seventh and youngest son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and the military commander in charge of the Khamis Brigade of the Libyan Army. He was part of his father's inner circle. During the Libyan Civil War in 2011, he was a major target for opposition forces trying to overthrow his father. At age three, Khamis Gaddafi was injured in the 15 April 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya, suffering head injuries when the Bab al-Azizia military compound was attacked in retaliation for the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing."
"Saif al-Arab Gaddafi Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (, ""lit. Sword of the Arabs; of the Gaddafa""; 1982 – 30 April 2011) was the sixth son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. From around 2006 to 2010, Saif al-Arab spent much of his time in Munich. On 30 April 2011, the Libyan government reported that Saif al-Arab and three of his young nieces and nephews were killed by a NATO airstrike on his house during the Libyan Civil War. During the beginning of the uprising, Saif al-Arab was put in charge of military forces by his father in order to put down"
"Khamis Gaddafi was killed during fighting in the town on 20 October 2012, a year to the day Gaddafi's father Muammar was captured and killed by rebel forces in Sirte. A statement from the Libyan National Congress's spokesman, Omar Hamdan, claimed Gaddafi was killed ""in battle"", but gave no further details. His body was purportedly found after a day of heavy fighting between the town's pro-Gaddafi garrison and militias allied to the Libyan government. A government spokesman denied that there was any official confirmation about the capture of Mussa Ibrahim to Agence France-Presse, and did not even talk about the"
"would arm opposition groups without explicit international authorization. It maintained that United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970, which imposed international sanctions on Libya including an arms embargo, applied to both the Gaddafi regime and the rebel groups. U.S. global security consultancy Stratfor reported that Egypt's special operations force Unit 777 and Tunisian volunteers were in Libya fighting for the rebels. On 10 March, France became the first nation to recognize the National Transitional Council as the sole Representative of Libya. On 20 October 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was killed while attempting to flee the Battle of Sirte at the end of"
"Misrata. The elder Gaddafi himself did not attend the funeral, however, two of his other sons, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was seen as his father's intended successor, and Hannibal were both observed in the crowd. Saif al-Arab's body, covered in a cloth of pro-Gaddafi green, was brought to the Al-Hani Cemetery in a black ambulance. Three of Muammar Gaddafi's grandchildren, identified by the authorities as being a child each of Hannibal, Muhammad and their sister Ayesha, were also buried. Saif al-Arab Gaddafi Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (, ""lit. Sword of the Arabs; of the Gaddafa""; 1982 – 30 April 2011) was"
"Gaddafi and asked ""They showed to the whole world how he (Gaddafi) was killed; there was blood all over. Is that what they call a democracy?"" Immediately after Gaddafi's death, NATO released a statement denying it knew beforehand that Gaddafi was travelling in the convoy it struck. Admiral James G. Stavridis, NATO's top officer, said the death of Gaddafi meant that NATO would likely wind down its operations in Libya. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general, said NATO would ""terminate [its] mission in coordination with the United Nations and the National Transitional Council"". Death of Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Gaddafi, the"
"Muammar Al-Ghaddafi. On March 18, 2011, ""The New York Times"" reported that Libya agreed to free him and three colleagues: Stephen Farrell, Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks. The Libyan government released the four journalists on March 21, 2011. Shadid married Nada Bakri, also a reporter for ""The New York Times""; they had a son, Malik. Shadid had a daughter, Laila, from his first marriage. Michael Shadid was his great uncle. Shadid died at age 43 on February 16, 2012, from an acute asthma attack while attempting to leave Syria. Shadid's smoking and extreme allergy to horses are believed to be"
"in an attempt to refute the claims, though it had used false live images before and these images were not verified. On 9 June 2011, a captured pro-Gaddafi soldier in Misrata told the rebels that Khamis Gaddafi was alive in Zliten, and was leading the soldiers there. On 5 August 2011, citing spies operating among the ranks of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, Mohammed Zawawi, a spokesman for the United Revolutionary Forces, told the Agence France Press news agency that Khamis Gaddafi had been killed overnight, stating that ""there was a aircraft attack by NATO on the Gaddafi operations room"
"he was the second most widely recognized person in Libya, being at times the ""de facto"" Prime Minister, and was mentioned as a possible successor, though he rejected this. An arrest warrant was issued for him by the International Criminal Court for charges of crimes against humanity against the Libyan people, for torturing and killing civilians, a charge he denied. Gaddafi was captured in southern Libya by the Zintan militia on 19 November 2011, after the end of the Libyan Civil War, and flown by plane to Zintan. He was sentenced to death on 28 July 2015 by a court"
"Second Gulf of Sidra offensive The Second Gulf of Sidra offensive was a military operation in the Libyan Civil War conducted by rebel anti-Gaddafi forces in August and September 2011 to take control of towns along the Gulf of Sidra in an effort to surround Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, which was held by pro-Gaddafi forces. It ended on 20 October, when Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim Gaddafi were killed along with former defense minister, Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr. The Gaddafi loyalists in the area were finally defeated when NTC fighters captured Sirte. Following the success of rebels hostile to"
"their condition as “struggling” or “suffering.” As protestors took to the streets, Gaddafi dispatched tanks, jets, and mercenaries to attack them, inciting a string of defections and so further eroding his legitimacy as a ruler. The actual death count of these attacks is not known, as Gaddafi's regime shut out and shut down both world and local media and communications. However, Libya's militarily weak regime was eventually overcome, and Gaddafi was killed on October 20, 2011, leading to the disintegration of the regime. Since Gaddafi's departure, tribal elders, NGOs, youth groups, town councils, and local brigades have stepped in to"
"On 25 October, the NTC announced that Gaddafi had been buried at an unidentified location in the desert. Seeking vengeance for the killing, Gaddafist sympathizers severely wounded and tortured for several days one of those who had captured Gaddafi, 22-year-old Omran Shaaban, near Bani Walid in September 2012, who eventually died in France. Gaddafi's ideological worldview was moulded by his environment, namely his Islamic faith, his Bedouin upbringing, and his disgust at the actions of European colonialists in Libya. As a schoolboy, Gaddafi adopted the ideologies of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, influenced in particular by Nasserism, the thought of"
"10 kilometers of the town. Second Gulf of Sidra offensive The Second Gulf of Sidra offensive was a military operation in the Libyan Civil War conducted by rebel anti-Gaddafi forces in August and September 2011 to take control of towns along the Gulf of Sidra in an effort to surround Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, which was held by pro-Gaddafi forces. It ended on 20 October, when Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim Gaddafi were killed along with former defense minister, Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr. The Gaddafi loyalists in the area were finally defeated when NTC fighters captured Sirte. Following the"
"Caricature during the 2011 Libyan Civil War The Libyan Civil War was part of a wave of protests that began in late 2010 and swept across the Arab world of North Africa and the Middle East, referred to as the ""Arab Spring"". The revolution in Libya turned into an armed conflict and a civil war. That war ended with the capture and killing of Libya’s ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, on 20 October 2011. An artistic lampooning and ridicule of the notorious leader pepper Libya's streets, walls, and ground. Throughout the course of his almost 42-year rule, Gaddafi created a cult of"
"philosophy. Caricature during the 2011 Libyan Civil War The Libyan Civil War was part of a wave of protests that began in late 2010 and swept across the Arab world of North Africa and the Middle East, referred to as the ""Arab Spring"". The revolution in Libya turned into an armed conflict and a civil war. That war ended with the capture and killing of Libya’s ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, on 20 October 2011. An artistic lampooning and ridicule of the notorious leader pepper Libya's streets, walls, and ground. Throughout the course of his almost 42-year rule, Gaddafi created a cult"
"Mustafa Bin Dardef Mustafa Bin Dardef () (1968 – 18 October 2011) was a popular field commander from the Zintan brigade of the Anti-Gaddafi forces during the Libyan Civil War. He was killed by a mortar round just two days before the fall of Sirte and death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Bin Dardef was a businessman in the Mediterranean city of Benghazi before he joined the uprising, importing medical equipment and children's toys, and was twice jailed under the Gaddafi regime for his alleged Islamist leanings. He commanded the Fakhri Alsalabi unit, named after a pilot killed in"
"the Syrian-based pro-Gaddafi TV station Arrai TV posted a message mourning his death on 29 August. In April 2012, ""New York Times"" journalist Robert Worth met with former Tripoli Yarmouk prison captor Marwan Gdoura, who confessed that after the execution of around 100 prisoners he fled the city with some 200 loyalists under the command of Khamis Gaddafi, who was killed in gunbattle. Afterwards, he witnessed his older brother Saif al-Islam Gaddafi receiving condolences in Bani Walid. On 17 October 2012, a report from Human Rights Watch said ""Khamis Gaddafi, a son of Muammar who commanded the elite 32nd ""Khamis"""
"an example that will be followed in the Arab region."" In September, Jibril ""proposed 36 names for a new cabinet, including friends and relatives, and retained the prime minister and foreign minister slots for himself."" He later retracted the proposal when NTC members objected, but an anonymous council official said it had ""left a bitter taste"". On 3 October 2011, Jibril announced that he would resign from government once the country had been ""liberated"". He later specified this meant the capture of Sirte from loyalist holdouts. On 20 October 2011, Sirte was captured and Muammar Gaddafi was killed. Keeping his"
"with a directive to keep his burial site secret after an autopsy had determined the cause of death, the semi-autonomous military council in Misrata said it would be buried quickly instead, vetoing the idea of an autopsy. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called for an independent autopsy and an investigation into how Gaddafi died, but Jibril said neither step was necessary. On 25 October, NTC representatives announced that Gaddafi's body had been buried in an unknown location in the desert early that morning, together with those of his son Mutassim Gaddafi and the regime's defense minister Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr."
"killed on 21 March. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that she was aware of reports that one of Gaddafi's sons had been killed in non-coalition air strikes, after hearing them from ""many different sources"", but that the ""evidence is not sufficient"" for her to confirm this. On 25 March 2011, Al Arabiya television reported that a source had confirmed the death of Khamis Gaddafi, though others including Al Jazeera continued to call it a rumour. On 29 March 2011, the Libyan government showed footage of what it said was live footage of Khamis Gaddafi greeting supporters in Tripoli,"
"Al-Saadi Gaddafi Al-Saadi Muammar Gaddafi (; born 25 May 1973), is the third son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He is a Libyan former association football player. In 2011, he was the commander of Libya's Special Forces and was involved in the Libyan Civil War. An Interpol notice was issued against him in 2011. On 5 March 2014, he was arrested in Niger and extradited to Libya, where he faces murder charges. In August 2015, video surfaced allegedly showing Gaddafi being tortured. Gaddafi is known for his involvement in Libyan football. On 6 June 2000, the BBC reported that"
"loyalist forces in their unsuccessful defense of Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's hometown, until the city fell. He was the fourth son of Muammar Gaddafi by his second wife, Safia Farkash. According to his ex-girlfirend, Talitha van Zon, Mutassim Gaddafi paid for Beyoncé and Mariah Carey to sing at his parties. Model Vanessa Hessler also admitted to a four-year relationship with him, and she continued to defend him after his death. Mutassim Gaddafi was captured when Sirte fell on 20 October 2011. NTC commanders at the front in Sirte and officials in Tripoli claimed that he was captured as he was trying"
"of Muammar Gaddafi against his own people to American doctors providing abortions. Representative Franklin was a graduate of Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, where he received a degree in both Biblical Studies and Business Administration. He and his wife, Pat, were married for over 27 years. They had three children. Franklin was an active member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. When a friend became concerned that he did not attend church on Sunday morning, they went to his home to check on him. Franklin was found dead in his bed on July 26, 2011. On December 26, 2011 the"
"alcohol. Al-Saadi Gaddafi Al-Saadi Muammar Gaddafi (; born 25 May 1973), is the third son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He is a Libyan former association football player. In 2011, he was the commander of Libya's Special Forces and was involved in the Libyan Civil War. An Interpol notice was issued against him in 2011. On 5 March 2014, he was arrested in Niger and extradited to Libya, where he faces murder charges. In August 2015, video surfaced allegedly showing Gaddafi being tortured. Gaddafi is known for his involvement in Libyan football. On 6 June 2000, the BBC reported"
"leading their captors to believe the accounts of all four to be credible. Some accounts of the attack that reportedly killed Gaddafi suggested fire from a technical, rather than a helicopter, destroyed his vehicle. The National Transitional Council claimed on 4 September that it was now certain Khamis Gaddafi was dead and had been buried near Bani Walid. In mid-September 2011, a report stated that Gaddafi was in Bani Walid, but had left the city and his men to their fate. However, the ""International Business Times"" reported on 15 September that Khamis Gaddafi was still presumed dead. On 15 October,"
"said on May 21, 2018, that ""this will only end like the Libyan model ended if Kim Jong-un doesn't make a deal"" to ""dismantle his nuclear weapons program"". Trump had made similar remarks on May 17, as he described that Libya's fate is ""what will take place if we don't make a deal"". These comments were in reference to the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after military intervention by Americans and Europeans in 2011. After a NATO airstrike prevented Gaddafi's escape, the Libyan rebels captured, beat up, sodomized, and executed Gaddafi. However, Libya under Gaddafi had already in 2003"
"African heads of state and government in an effort to gain influence throughout the continent and suggesting that the African Union will function better without Gaddafi and his repeated proposals for a unitary African government. Gaddafi was ultimately killed during the Battle of Sirte in October 2011. While some regard the project to have died with him, Robert Mugabe expressed interest in reviving the project. Following the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état, Mugabe resigned as President. African integration generally has had a higher level of support among poorer, less developed, and smaller African countries versus richer, more developed, and larger African"
"which tried to overthrow the Gadhafi regime in the mid-1990s. Investigators have learned he has had contact with both the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Al-Qaeda members in Pakistan. He was released by Libyan authorities on June 12, 2013, based on claims there was a lack of evidence to hold him in custody. In July 2014 he was found dead in Libya. Libyan Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur's office condemned the attack and extended condolences, saying: ""While strongly condemning any attempt to abuse the person of Muhammad, or an insult to our holy places and prejudice against the faith,"
"Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (; born 25 June 1972) is a Libyan political figure. He is the second son of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (who was overthrown and killed in 2011) and his second wife Safia Farkash. Gaddafi was awarded a PhD from the London School of Economics. He was a part of his father's inner circle, performing public relations and diplomatic roles on his behalf. He publicly turned down his father's offer of the country's second highest post and held no official government position. According to American State Department officials in Tripoli, during his father's reign,"