The curtain fell yesterday for Moammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for almost 42 years until the onset of the "Arab Spring" early this year. He died on his own terms. At the beginning of the revolution that overthrew his government, he had vowed to "fight on to the last drop of my blood" and "die a martyr".
Former rebel forces, now called revolutionary forces, backed by NATO, overpowered resistance forces loyal to the former warlord in a convoy in his hometown of Sirte. The prime minister under Libya's National Transition Council (NTC), Mahmoud Jibril, has confirmed Gadhafi's death at a press conference: "We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Moammar Gadhafi has been killed."
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