Gaddafi Dead: Body Kept In Freezer In Misrata Market (VIDEO)

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's body is being held in a commercial freezer in a Misrata market, Reuters and the Associated Press report.

Video footage shows the bloodied body of the ousted Libyan leader lying on a mattress in a shopping center in Misrata, the coastal city where Gaddafi's body was brought after he was captured and killed in Sirte on Thursday. His body shows bruises and bullet wounds to the chest and the temple.

Libya's transitional government said on Thursday that Gaddafi would be buried within 24 hours, in accordance with Muslim rites. Yet on Friday, the NTC announced that Gaddafi's burial had been delayed because of investigations and a pending decision on where to bury the body.

Earlier today, UNHCR called for an investigation into the circumstances of Gaddafi's death. "We believe there is a need for an investigation," said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. "More details are needed to ascertain whether he was killed in some form of fighting or was executed after his capture."

"The two cell phone videos that have emerged, one of him alive, and one of him dead, taken together are very disturbing," Colville told reporters.

Also on Friday, there were rumors of a dispute between the National Transitional Council and a group of Misrata fighters over the site of Gaddafi's grave, Reuters reports. "They are not agreeing on the place of burial," an NTC official who declined to be named told the news organization. "Under Islam he should have been buried quickly but they have to reach an agreement whether he is to be buried in Misrata, Sirte, or somewhere else," he said.

Muammar Gaddafi was killed on Thursday after the capture of his hometown Sirte by Libyan fighters. The precise circumstances of the former leader's death remain unclear. Libyan officials said it appeared that Gaddafi was caught in the crossfire, and it was unclear who fired the bullet that killed him.

Below, watch footage showing Gaddafi's body in Misrata (WARNING: Graphic content):

Comments

[riv69man]

12:47 PM on 10/26/2011

OMG, what a bunch of ANIMALS....

[grumbles]

05:58 PM on 10/25/2011

this was barbaric...... i dont know another word for it. it made me feel, rather soberly, that i was glad i was an American............

[sallysuelee]

02:27 PM on 10/24/2011

War is brutal

[philly282]

02:19 PM on 10/24/2011

for all the hyper-lib Huffsters, please dont be like "oh man, this stuff happens in the US"

no it doesn't

u.s. has major flaws compared to other industrialized democracies (huffster: are we really a democracy maaaan?)

there are countries that are way more backwards than the u.s., and libya is one of them.

game, set, match.com

[JackVandusen]

03:13 PM on 10/24/2011

So, "refudiating" Habeas Corpus would be a move in the wrong direction from your perspective then?

[the griff]

01:03 PM on 10/24/2011

This is a pitiful thing. How in the world could anybody's dead body be treated like this? The rebels sodomized the man with some kind of a rod. How sick is that? And America supports these people?

[MightyObjectiveObserver]

06:36 AM on 10/24/2011

And they have children standing in line waiting to see his body. I guess different cultures and all, but theirs is violent, primitive and has a 9th century flavor. It might be a very good idea to think twice before accepting immigrants into the West from such a different backward region.

[rbenjamin]

11:13 AM on 10/24/2011

Absolutely. Long lines of curious citizens, including children, never flock to celebrity corpse viewings in the United States. Never have, never will. That would be soooo 9th century. There is no violence to speak of in the United States either.

La La, La La - La, La - La La La La La

[MightyObjectiveObserver]

01:40 PM on 10/24/2011

Sure, contemporary western kids are lining up to see the roughed up body of a former despot with a hole in the head that´s kept in a mall freezer, it happens all the time.

[vinnieboiblue]

03:33 AM on 10/24/2011

After seeing this clip. and knowing the type of gunshots Osama bin Laden, had, now you can see why the CIA, among other Government Agencies did not want the bin Laden pictures published? They were more gory than this. To think Khadaffi, was given a chance to live in exile in Tunisia, but chose to antagonize the Libyan People, end up dying in a violent manner.

[Eagleman]

07:58 PM on 10/23/2011

How Islamic of them....

[sdesign]

06:42 PM on 10/23/2011

These people are animals. My guess is, he's on ice till they can figure out who gets to eat him.

[memchee]

02:18 AM on 10/24/2011

with all those people trafficing in and out of that freezer, I doubt he's barely kept cold.

[corsair807]

04:56 PM on 10/23/2011

NICE PICTURE,GOT ANY MORE OF THIS JERK.

[zaydesvox]

12:05 PM on 10/23/2011

Ich hult em in mina Tuchas "Gad awful affi"..Luz em ligen in Drerd! I want to see the day (soon) when Ahmadinjiahd lies dead in a freezer! He's even worse than Gad affi!

[Jai Allen]

11:07 AM on 10/23/2011

This is savage. There is not even a trace of humanity left in the media. How dare you show these horrific images to my children. We need new media....civilized media. How gross are you really? Completely uncivilized. Not everyone applauds your insensitivity. So if they decide to eat him after they play with his body and drink his blood....will you show that and call it media entertainment? If you take enjoyment in such imagery, you are no more civilized than you have judged him to be.

[kritteracres]

06:10 PM on 10/23/2011

Jai turn off the t.v. and watch what your kids see on the internet. As a parent I would think that is your job.

[Catherine Lynch Monks]

10:39 PM on 10/23/2011

Turn off the TV.

[editer]

10:18 AM on 10/23/2011

With modern technology making it possible to record almost any incident as it occurs, we can now expect to be witnesses to all manners of atrocities. Some posters have mentioned the abuse of Mussolini before he was killed. There are no photos or films of his treatment until after he was killed. The scene of his corpse (and his mistress's) hanging by their heels is horrific enough. We can only imagine what they endured before they were finally killed.

Although Il Duce was beloved by the Italian people early in his rule, they ultimately hated him for the death and destruction that Italy endured because of him. No one has branded the Italian people as savages because of the way he was killed. Before we call the Libyans barbarians, we have to keep in mind that they have endured forty plus years of Gaddafi's bloody regime. They have had family members tortured, raped, and killed under his regime. I'm not sure how civilized I would be if I were in their shoes.

[veteranspost]

09:52 AM on 10/23/2011

In the late 90's BBC reporters discovered that the person they were interviewing as the Libyan Leader was actually a double and they then questioned the look-a-like about the real... The interview ended quickly. My question is, after watching the film of Gaddafi in a freezer... Where is this man's chest hair? Gaddafi had chest hair in photo's back in the 80's & 90's, not a lot but enough to be noticed peeking through his shirts. This of course is just a thought as the final battle for Gaddafi's life was NOT surrounded by dozens of loyalists, but just with one other thug.

[Ms Disbelef]

08:55 PM on 10/23/2011

You will not that his goatee and mustache were pretty sparse. His head was half bald. Aging men often lose body hair so don't start any conspiracy notions.

[Nkhati]

09:26 AM on 10/23/2011

The civilized west. They have his body in cold storage for meat. Do they plan to feed on his flesh. Especially his heart, considering how stout it was.

[Ms Disbelef]

08:56 PM on 10/23/2011

They don't know where to buy him. I read today that his family (now in Algeria) have requested his remains. We will see how that works out. If I were the libyan government, I would get it on the first plane out and save a lot of problems.