Video emerges showing first Gaddafi's capture

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A new video of Moamer Gaddafi has emerged in which his captors are shown torturing him.

24 October,2011 11:32 am

The commander of the Libyan forces which captured Muammar Gaddafi says he was taken to an ambulance wounded, but alive, as items said to be in the former leaders possession at the time of capture are displayed, including a gold handgun, a rifle and a satellite phone.The leader of the unit of Libyan fighters which captured Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday they did everything they could to keep him alive.Omar Ahmed Al Shibani gave his account of the events of Thursday as interim National Transitional Council forces stormed Gaddafis hometown of Sirte.He said his troops had come across the leader and his army chief sheltering in a storm drain after NATO air strikes devastated their convoy attempting to escape Sirte.When he was caught, Gaddafi was armed with a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum pistol loaded with dum-dum bullets -- banned under international conventions, a gold-plated Browning pistol in his waste band and two assault rifles lay nearby, Shibani told the news conference in Misrata on Sunday. The items were placed on display at the news conference.Shibani said that the leader was wounded but alive when he was handed over to anA succession of mobile phone videos show a wounded, but still conscious, Muammar Gaddafi being beaten and manhandled on the outskirts of Sirte and his captured son even sitting up drinking water and smoking a cigarette before both were later pronounced dead.Later video obtained by Reuters appears to show Gaddafi lying dead in an ambulance, some way between Sirte and Misrata.An autopsy conducted in the early hours of Sunday revealed Gaddafi had one bullet wound in the left side of his head and one in his abdomen. It is clear that he died of the bullet wounds, but when they were administered and by whom is far less clear.The countrys new rulers declared the birth of a new Libya on Sunday as hundreds of people trooped past Gaddafis decaying body in Misrata for a third day, a final humiliation that deepened international disquiet about Libyas future and angered family members.Gaddafis kinsmen have asked to bury the body in his hometown of Sirte as requested in the former leaders will, but the interim government has said it wants it disposed of in a secret location to prevent it becoming a shrine for his followers.