Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi pleaded for his life after revolutionary rebel forces dragged him from his hiding place in a drainage pipe this morning. The Libyan leader was holed up in one of the last few buildings under his control when NATO airplanes strafed the buildings with rockets and ammunition.
Gaddafi attempted to leave the area in a convoy of vehicles but they were forced to turn back when the convoy was hit with a Hellfire missile. Gaddafi was injured, weakened and bloody when Rebel forces found him hiding in the drainage pipe near his home town of Sirte.
“He had been wounded in the legs,” NTC official Abdel Majid Mlegta told REUTERS.
Cell phone footage, released shortly after the news of his capture broke, showed a bloodied Gaddafi being manhandled and dragged off a truck as soldiers chanted.
The 69-year-old deposed despot seemed disoriented as he pleaded with the rebel soldiers. “What did I ever do to you?” he asked one rebel soldier before being executed.
