{"id":24935,"date":"2011-10-20T09:49:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=24935"},"modified":"2011-10-20T09:49:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:49:50","slug":"al-jazeera-muammar-gaddafi-killed-as-sirte-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/10\/20\/al-jazeera-muammar-gaddafi-killed-as-sirte-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera: Muammar Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader&#8217;s hometown and final stronghold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed,&#8221; Mahmoud Jibril, the de facto Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday in Tripoli, the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds took to the streets of Sirte, Tripoli and Benghazi, the eastern city that spearheaded the uprising against Gaddafi&#8217;s 42-year rule in February, to celebrate the news, with some firing guns and waving Libya&#8217;s new flag. <\/p>\n<p>Abdul Hakim Belhaj, an NTC military chief, said Gaddafi had died of his wounds after being captured on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the former Libyan leader was taken to a location which is being kept secret for security reasons, Mohamed Abdel Kafi, an NTC official in the city of Misrata, told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Abdel Majid, another NTC official, said the toppled leader had been wounded in both legs.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story<a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/africa\/2011\/10\/20111020111520869621.html\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader&#8217;s hometown and final stronghold. &#8220;We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed,&#8221; Mahmoud Jibril, the de facto Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday in Tripoli, the capital. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}