?He died because of a gunshot wound. It is obvious,? the doctor said, giving no details about whether it was from an apparent gunshot wound on the left side of Gaddafi?s head.
?There are still several issues. We have to pass (the report) to the prosecutor general. But everything will be revealed publicly. Nothing will be hidden.?
The autopsy was carried out at a morgue in the city of Misrata, about 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli. Local officials said Gaddafi?s body would now be brought back to the cold store at an old market in Misrata where it has been on public display.
?We worked all through the night. We just got done,? said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He did not reveal any of the autopsy?s findings.
The autopsy was carried out at a morgue in the city of Misrata, about 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli. Local officials said Gaddafi?s body would now be brought back to the cold store at an old market in Misrata where it has been on public display. Body to be handed to his relatives
Libya?s interim government will hand the body of slain despot Muammar Gadhafi to his relatives after consulting with them on the location of his burial, a senior government advisor said on Sunday.
?The decision has been taken to hand him over to his extended family, because none of his immediate family are present at this moment,? Ahmed Jibril told AFP.
?The NTC (National Transitional Council) are in consultation with his family. It is for his family to decide where Gadhafi will be buried, in consultation with the NTC,? he added.
Jibril, who is an advisor to the new regime?s interim premier Mahmud Jibril, declined to say when the transfer would take place.
Since he was killed on Thursday, as he tried to flee his hometown of Sirte, Gadhafi?s body has been held in a refrigerated chamber outside Misrata, drawing large crowds wanting to view the remains of the despot who ruled Libya with an iron fist for decades.
The NTC has been reticent about plans for his burial, not wishing to see the grave become a rallying point for residual loyalists, and NTC leaders and military officials have indicated that he would be buried in a secret location.
Disquiet has grown internationally over how Gadhafi met his end on Thursday after NTC fighters hauled him out of a culvert where he was hiding following Nato air strikes on the convoy in which he had been trying to flee his falling hometown.
Ceremony begins to declare Libya ?liberated?
A ceremony to declare Libya fully liberated from Moamer Gadhafi?s hardline rule began in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday, three days after the ousted despot was captured and killed.
An AFP reporter said the ceremony before thousands of people in Kish Square opened with the singing of the national anthem and the waving of flags, both of which date back to the monarchy which Gadhafi overthrew in a 1969 coup.
Libya?s interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil was during the ceremony to proclaim the oil-rich North African nation ?liberated? of the last vestiges of Gadhafi?s almost 42-year autocratic rule.
Abdel Rahman al-Kabisi, minister of martyrs and the wounded, told the gathering that the event marked ?a great historic moment in beloved Libya?s history.?
?Oh pharaoh of the century, you are now in the bin of history... in a stroke of fate ... you have been thrown into the bin of history. Go to hell,? he thundered.
Clues to Gaddafi?s death concealed from public view
Libyan forces guarding Muammar Gaddafi?s body in a cold storage room let in members of the public to view the deposed leader for a second day on Saturday, but the wounds that may hold the clue to how he died were covered up.
Gaddafi?s body lay on a mattress on the floor of the cold room, as it did on Friday when hundreds of members of the public filed in to see for themselves that the man who ruled Libya for 42 years was dead.
But unlike the previous day, Gaddafi?s body was covered by a blanket that left only his head exposed, hiding the bruises on his torso and scratch marks on his chest that had earlier been visible.
And, crucially, a Reuters reporter who viewed the body said, Gaddafi?s head had been turned to the left. That meant a bullet hole that earlier could be seen on the left side of his face, just in front of his ear, could no longer be seen.
Guards overseeing Gaddafi?s body handed out green surgical masks to dozens of people filing in to take a look because of the stench of rotting flesh filling the room.
The bullet hole in Gaddafi?s head, and the other wounds, could help solve the riddle of whether, as Libya?s new rulers said, he was shot in crossfire in a battle or, as some accounts suggest, he was killed by the fighters who caught him.
A local military commander in the city of Misrata, where the forces which captured him took his body, said ?over-enthusiastic? fighters took matters into their own hands when they came face to face with the man they despise.
?We wanted to keep him alive but the young guys, things went out of control,? he said speaking on condition of anonymity.
Few people in Libya ? where thousands of people, including civilians, were killed by Gaddafi?s forces in the seven-month rebellion ? say they are troubled by the manner of his death.
But if he was indeed killed by his captors, it will cast doubt on the promises by Libya?s new rulers to respect human rights and prevent reprisals. It would also embarrass Western governments which gave their wholehearted backing to the NTC.
Son vows to avenge father?s death
Seif al-Islam, one of the sons of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has vowed to take revenge for his father?s death.
Al-Islam appeared on the Syria-based Alrai TV channel Saturday night with an appeal to his supporters, saying he was alive and staying in Libya and intended to fight to the bitter end against the rebels.
?We are continuing resistance. I am in Libya, I am alive and free and willing to fight to the end and take revenge,? the TV channel loyal to the Gaddafi regime quoted him as saying.
A website of Gaddafi?s supporters earlier posted a statement that Seif al-Islam had been named an heir to the Libyan dictator and charged with the command of forces fighting the rebels. ?AFP, Reuters, IANS
Source: daily-sun.com
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