Qaddafi's Body in Misrata

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Qaddafi's Body in Misrata

Libya’s authorities on Tuesday announced they have buried the body of former leader of the country at dawn in an undisclosed location, after differences emerged over the circumstances surrounding his death. Qaddafi’s body had been displayed for three days in the city of Misrata in a gesture of retaliation of the authorities of this city for the fact that the former leader had ordered the crushing of the Misrata rebellion. The display was ended on Monday as the body was starting to decay.

The transitional authorities in Misrata said that the corpse of Mutassim, a son of the former Libyan leader, was buried on the same occasion and at the same location. Only a few members of the family and officials were allowed to attend.

In the meantime, the National Transitional Council was compelled to heed to the warning of the international community and allow an investigation into the way Qaddafi had died. The UN human rights activists demanded that an inquiry be made into the circumstances of his demise, following the display of images in which Qaddafi was taken alive as captive.

The UN activists reminded that in case he was killed that would constitute a war crime.  The NTC authorities said that he was shot in the head during the fire trading in Sirte, his hometown, the last stronghold to have resisted the rebel forces assault.

The accounts of his death were various since Thursday when the first images with Qaddafi dead appeared on the international media. Some of the NTC fighters said he had been killed by the NATO air strike.

Others said that he had initially been shot in his legs and then died of his wounds. Some said that he had been taken to the hospital, and that he died from a wound in the head. A fighter boasted that he had been the one to find him in a drainage pipe and that he had asked him not to shoot him.

There was an account of the Israeli website DEBKAfile who said that he had been killed by a NATO special task force and then left to the Misrata people to deal with him. The final report indicated that he had been shot in the head and the abdomen during the Sirte attack.

This prompted Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman to the NTC, to say that in response to the calls of the international community a commission was put in place to investigate what happened.

Meanwhile, the chairman of NTC wanted to make sure that the world understood that Libya would be a moderate Islamic republic, not a fundamental one, as the proclamation of Shariah as source of Libyan law had made people believe.

By this, he softened the position he had on Sunday, when he proclaimed the liberation of Libya from the rule of Muammar al-Qaddafi and said that from now one the country would be an Islamic state with Shariah as source of the legislation and all laws that run against Shariah teachings be considered void.

He also said that the new legislation would renounce the ban on polygamy, which existed during Qaddafi’s regime, and that the marriages and divorces would be under the Muslim law.

The NTC leader also said that the financial operations would have to obey the laws of the Muslim faith as well.

In spite of the call to cooperation and understanding, to reconciliation and forgiveness, Amnesty International reported that 50 bodies had been found in a hotel in Sirte, and that they belonged to people who had supported Qaddafi. Investigation showed that some of them had their hands tied behind their backs and were killed from point blank shots.

On Tuesday, a fuel tank exploded in Sirte, causing the death of 100 people and the wounding of 50 more.

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