muammar gadhafi, what can you tell us? we have additional details to exactly how. it appears that muammar gadhafi was killed today and it started with a convoy. gadhafi was reported to be in a convoy that was speeding for his how many town of sirt after rebels in a 90-minute gun battle had driven the final group of loyalists out of sirt. a nato war plane actually launched an air strike against that convoy that brought it dead in its tracks. here s where it gets mirky. gadhafi was pulled from the convoy and wounded by the rebels that were in that region. or he had managed to crawl into a large drainage pipe nearby and was dragged out of that drainage pipe. there is video out there, cell phone video and shows gadhafi was alive and being held up and escorted, bloody, but still alive and being escorted by the
closer advantage point. he is alive with the rebels and they put him on what appears to be a pick up of the rear of a pick up there. mick, back to the air strike for nato, our correspondent said when the rebels went in, they had no idea that gadhafi was part of this convoy. they were not sure that this was anything actually involving the dictator, the leader they should be searching for in sirt. according to the officials, it was unclear whether nato knew gadhafi was in the convoy. it was clearly a right target. fleeing sirt, gadhafi and all intelligence reported that he was holed up there in sirt and it looked like a gadhafi-style convoy. it was unmistakable that a nato war plane took out or at least brought it to a halt and somehow then he was in the hands of the
protect the people from violence perpetrated by forces associated with the gadhafi regime. not just because of the announcement of gadhafi s death, but because of the successful taking of sirt and other areas, most of libya is now under control of rebel forces under control. we want to quickly bring another portion of the story as we get more information on the death of muammar gadhafi. we are listening with the daily briefing. i want to bring in the conversation. his brother is among those killed in the lockerbie bombing in 1988. muammar gadhafi is thought to have been mind that attack and we are waiting to hear about the administration. here you have the president coming out at the top of the hour, muammar gadhafi is dead and there answers many would like regarding those who are in
other and approach every country with their own unique situation and conditions. i think millions of libyans get to scratch something off the bucket list. they are seeing the tormenter dead and it gives them an opportunity and all over the arab world. we learned in recent months all over the world people are watching this and taking inspiration from this. it is incredible. thank you very much for joining us. as we mentioned, gadhafi s is in mizrata after traveling for sirt. live for us, adrian, what is the latest on the ground? it s very tough to get confirmation of what s happening with the body. we heard at various points it was taken to a morgue or a mosque. we are trying to pinpoint information about that. we can say that there is a lot of celebration happening. it s after 8:00 in the evening
and reports of them trying to leave sirt. they engaged these armed men and they didn t know gadhafi could have been in the building or in the vicinity. they no idea gadhafi was with that group. right. it has been under somewhat of a siege with the rebels. they were prepared that somebody cab trying to escape. that s what they did. they engaged the people and at the end of the fight that lasted from 30 to 45 minutes. they had ka dafy in their hands. what are about the nato air strike that took place around the same time and targeting a convoy. is this a coordinated effort here? was it a mechanism that led the rebels to move into this particular area where and were they flushing out the area where it took place? all of this will happen and we hear the french may have been involved, but at the end of the day, what clearly emerged from the footage and people speaking, the rebels themselves were the