Gaddafi killed in Sirte
October 20, 2011
After eight months of NATO airstrikes and rebel advances, Muammar Gaddafi was found hiding in a drainage pipe outside his hometown. A militia mob beat, sodomized, and shot him on a dusty road. Hillary Clinton, watching footage in Washington, joked: "We came, we saw, he died." Libya would unravel for decades.
In context
Also in 2011 (6 other events on record)
- Tōhoku earthquake and Fukushima · East Asia · Disaster
- Tahrir Square fills · Africa · Politics
- Syria's civil war begins · Middle East · War
- Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad · South Asia · War
- U.S. troops leave Iraq · Middle East · War
- Royal wedding at Westminster · Europe · Culture
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