Libya's new leaders vowed on Thursday to bring Moamer Qadaffy's ... who is now deader than a rock...
killers to justice in a sharp break with their previous insistence he was caught in the crossfire with his own loyalists.
| "You are hereby judged guilty. Get down and give me fifty!" "That's unfair, yer honor! We appeal!" "Hokay, make it twenty. But touch the ground each time!" |
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
the UN Security Council unanimously voted to end the mandate for international military action in Libya, ending another chapter in the war against Qadaffy's toppled regime.
"With regards to Qadaffy, we do not wait for anybody to tell us," Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), told a news conference in Benghazi.
"We had already launched an investigation. We have issued a code of ethics in handling of prisoners of war. There were some violations by those who are unfortunately described as revolutionaries. I am sure that was an individual act and not an act of revolutionaries or the national army," the top interim official said.
"We had issued a statement saying that any violations of human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
will be investigated by the NTC. Whoever is responsible for that (Qadaffy's killing) will be judged and given a fair trial."
Ghoga, who spoke in Arabic and whose remarks were translated by an official interpreter, was responding to specific questions about Qadaffy's death and potential abuses.
Until now, the NTC had adamantly claimed that Qadaffy was killed in crossfire after he was captured in Sirte, his hometown and final bastion.
Disquiet has grown internationally over how Qadaffy met his end after NTC fighters hauled him out of a culvert where he was hiding following NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
air strikes on the convoy in which he had been trying to flee his falling hometown.
Mobile phone videos show him still alive at that point.
Subsequent footage shows a now-bloodied but walking Qadaffy being hustled through a frenzied crowd, before he disappears in the crush and the crackle of gunfire can be heard.