Qaddafi's Last Stand [Updated w/Photo]

Reuters has a more detailed account of Qaddafi's last minutes that seems to reconcile some of the discrepancies from previous accounts.

If this story is accurate, then Qaddafi's convoy was bombed (likely by a Predator drone) as it fled Sirte.  He and his entourage took cover in some drainage pipes, from which they engaged in a firefight with NTC forces.  He was either wounded in the aerial attack or the firefight (possibly by one of his own men . . . don't laugh, as one of Pancho Villa's men shot him from behind during the first month of the 1916 Punitive Expedition), at which point he was pulled out of the pipes and taken into rebel custody, where the cell phone videos we saw yesterday began.

Whether he ultimately died from the wounds incurred in these attacks, or was summarily executed by the rebels, we may never know.



The drainage pipes in which Qaddafi took cover from an air strike and from which he was extracted by NTC forces.

UPDATE II: CBS has posted a story on Qaddafi's last moments as well, although it is a little less certain as to the timeline of events.