Qaddafi Killed?

Deposed Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi is alternately being reported as captured or killed this morning.

Libyan TV began reporting over an hour ago that Qaddafi had been arrested near Sirte and had been taken to Misrata.

However, Reuters has subsequently reported that Qaddafi was killed, although the circumstances described in the story are murky and rely entirely upon Libyan sources.  They suggest he was either wounded in a NATO airstrike on a fleeing convoy and then captured, or pulled from a spiderhole similar to Saddam Hussein's in 2003.  Yet a National Transitional Council official says Qaddafi "was also hit in his head.  There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."

More details will follow, to be sure.  But for now it seems as if the hunt for Qaddafi has come to an end. 

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