Kematian muammar khadafi biography

After 42 years at the helm of his sparsely populated, oil-rich nation, Muammar Gaddafi – the Arab world’s longest-ruling leader – lost his grip on power after a six-month uprising.

On October 20, an NTC official reported that Gaddafi had been killed  near Sirte after fighters liberated the deposed leader’s hometown.

Footage obtained by Al Jazeera appeared to show Libyans dragging the body of their former leader through the streets.

Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) said Gaddafi and his son Mutassim, along with a former aide were buried at a secret location in the Libyan desert.

Since he led a successful military coup in 1969, Gaddafi styled himself as Libya’s “brother leader” and the “guide of the revolution”, as an almost paternal figure looking after Libya’s six million inhabitants.

His relationship with the rest of the world was erratic.

For years, Gaddafi was known in the West as a pariah, blamed for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet