has just held a news conference in this building, and he has confirmed gadhafi is dead, and a number of politicians and military figures in this country over the past hour or two have also gone on the record to say the fallen leader here has been killed. from what we understand, he died in the fighting a few hours ago in his hometown of sirte from the rebel sources we ve been talking to. they say that a convoy try today escape the city and perhaps was hit by a nato strike, and then afterwards they found him in a storm pipe, dragged him out, and one of the rebel sources told us he was alive at that time. he had bullet wounds to the legs and head, but he was alive. subsequently, he seems to have died on the way to nearby misurata, jon. jon: all right. so it does not sound as though he was attacked after the airstrike, or is that clear? reporter: it s not clear at the moment, jon.