Libya's ex-leader Col Muammar Gaddafi was killed today after an assault on his birthplace of Sirte.
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Gaddafi tried to flee in a convoy hit by American drone
Highlights:
Gaddafi had left his compound in final attempt to flee before final push by rebels
Vehicles were shelled by a French fighter jets
Fled to a large tunnel by the roadside to escape attack from Rebels
He was found in a hole' wearing military-style clothing, shouting 'Don't shoot'
Rebel forces executed him in front of a baying mob
His body was paraded through the streets of the city
Gaddafi's eldest son Saif was shot in leg - with some reports saying he is now dead
Pictures and videos of Gaddafi and his son have flooded the internet.
Reports say Gaddafi will be given secret burial
The Fall of Gaddafi in Pictures
Gaddafi's last moments alive: Dictator begs for his life after being dragged from a drain. Seconds later he was summarily executed.
Jubilant Rebels celebrating in Tripoli
Burnt out out cars destroyed by fighter jets
Gaddafi
Gaddafi and one of his famous bandanas
Dressed up in colourful African prints
A bloodied Gaddafi pleads for mercy
Gaddafi appears to be crying
Knocked against a van
Slammed against a van
Shot a few times more
The tunnel where Gaddafi was captured
Dead bodies lying in front of the tunnel
The body of Gaddafi
Gaddafi's shoes removed when he died
Carnage and destruction
How Gaddafi was captured
More jubilant soldiers
Gaddafi was known recruiting an all female bodyguard
Gaddafi's role in Libya
Partners in crime
Gaddafi was known for his special uniforms
Gaddafi's gold plated hand gun found on him before he was killed
He had a controversial relationship with Fidel Castro
Life of Gaddafi
Gaddafi was born in 1942, the son of a Bedouin herdsman, in a tent near Sirte on the Mediterranean coast. He abandoned a geography course at university for a military career that included a short spell at a British army signals school.
He took power in a bloodless military coup in 1969 when he toppled King Idriss, and in the 1970s he formulated his 'Third Universal Theory', a middle road between communism and capitalism, as laid out in his Green Book.
He oversaw the rapid development of Libya, which was previously known for little more than oil wells and deserts where huge tank battles took place in World War Two. The economy is now paying the price of war and sanctions.
One of his first tasks on taking power was to build up the armed forces, but he also spent billions of dollars of oil income on improving living standards, making him popular with the low-paid.
Gaddafi poured money into giant projects such as a steel plant in the town of Misrata - the scene of bitter fighting - and the Great Man-Made River, a scheme to pipe water from desert wells to coastal communities.
Gaddafi embraced the pan-Arabism of the late Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and tried without success to merge Libya, Egypt and Syria into a federation. A similar attempt to join Libya and Tunisia ended in acrimony.
In 1977 he changed the country's name to the Great Socialist Popular Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah (State of the Masses).
For much of his rule he was shunned by the West, which accused him of links to terrorism and revolutionary movements. He was particularly reviled after the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing over Lockerbie, by Libyan agents in which 270 people were killed.
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