Libyan fighter claims he killed Gaddafi in a leaked video A Libyan revolutionary fighter has bragged in a leaked video that he was the man who killed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, that country's despotic former ruler. The young man, who is pictured but
has not yet been identified, said he killed the fallen dictator because he could not bear the thought of taking him alive.
'We grabbed him,' the fighter says in the video. 'I hit him in the face. Some fighters wanted to take him away and that's when I shot him, twice: in the face and in the chest.'
To prove the video's authenticity, the fighter then flaunts what appears to be Gaddafi's bloodstained shirt, before brandishing a gold ring he says he took from the despot's lifeless finger.
The sensational claims come as the clearest and most graphic video yet of Gaddafi being savagely beaten in the wake of his capture has emerged online.
The video shows the bloodied dictator after he has been hauled from his hiding place in Sirte, his hometown, being kicked and punched by his captors.
To shouts of 'Allahu akbar', and with the sounds of assault rifle fire in the background, the men manhandle the profusely bleeding Gaddafi across a patch of wasteland and into a waiting truck.
The two videos have emerged the day after Libya's new leader, prime minister Mahmoud Jibril, said he wished the hated despot was still alive to stand trial.
The apparent summary execution of Colonel Gaddafi last week has already stained the reputation of the new Libya, with international allies of the National Transitional Council (NTC) urging the new government to investigate.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the reputation of the NTC had been 'a little bit stained' by the way the dictator died at the hands of his captors.
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