GlobalPost: Qaddafi apparently sodomized after capture

Amid mounting questions about just how and when Muammar Qaddafi died, a GlobalPost analysis of video footage suggests a Libyan fighter sodomized the former dictator after he was captured near Sirte.

As GlobalPost reports:

A frame by frame analysis of this exclusive GlobalPost video clearly shows the rebel trying to insert some kind of stick or knife into Gaddafi's rear end.

GlobalPost correspondent Tracey Shelton said there is some question as to whether the instrument was a knife from the end of a gun, which Libyans call a Bicketti, or a utilitiy tool known as a Becker Knife and Tool, which is popularly known as a BKT.

This latest video discovery comes as international and human rights groups call for a formal investigation into how the former Libyan leader was killed. In video clips that have emerged of his capture, Gaddafi can be seen injured but alive. Later he is seen with what appears to be gunshot wounds to his head and chest. According to the Geneva Conventions, however, abuse of prisoners under any circumstance is not permissable.

GlobalPost offers four screenshots taken from fairly extensive video of Qaddafi's capture last week. (See video below.)

The former leader had been in hiding since rebel fighters toppled the capital city of Tripoli. His death, which came shortly after he was driven away in a truck by opposition forces, has been the subject of much debate. A coroner's report found that he was killed by a bullet to the head, which officials in Libya's transitional government initially claimed was the result of crossfire between revolutionaries and loyalists as Qaddafi was being driven to a hospital.

But bowing to growing international pressure, newly installed interim leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil announced Monday that the Transitional National Council had formed a committee to investigate Qaddafi's death (though he also claimed that Qaddafi might have been killed by his own supporters to prevent him from implicating them in his past crimes.)

On top of Qaddafi's death, revolutionary forces are also being scrutinized for their treatment of loyalists in general. New York-based Human Rights Watch Monday warned of a "trend of killings, looting and other abuses" after 53 people, apparently Qaddafi loyalists, were found dead in a Sirte hotel. The condition of the bodies suggests they may have been executed.

The group has called for an investigation.

[Devilzrejkt]

Wow! ****** camera man! Dont bother! Seriously, put the camera away and scream like the rest of the morons. I feel like that video was just a terrorist attack on my brain!

[journe4us]

some reason, when I saw this picture of Gadaffi shot/bleeding, I actually cried. I cried at the tremendous horror of torture and revenge that many feel. I cried at War, at the US Agression and involvment in all of this with the shouts of Joy. War, Death, Torture and Revenge is always horrid, but it will never stop ever, as long as we always celebrate the horrid death of another. The US, British, Nato, French are all involved all over the MIDEAST in many covert actions, giving weapons to rebels, and stirring up all sides. To the USA, we are told it is all "HUMANITARIAN AID" and Democracy. Don't know who my Gov't. thinks it is kidding or convincing, but I am not one of them. The Agression on MidEast is not Humanitarian, it is undeclared war and not democracy, but a need for Power and Control and Resources. The killing is just a way to achieve the goals. AMericans need to stay out of the Mid East, stop stirring up more trouble than they already have. This was not happening, until us 4 countries decided it was time to "spread our form of Democracy" and Humanitarian Aid...not a declared war. The other cultures of the world should survive the way they want and the USA and Americans survive the way we want.

[Robert_M1]

Hopefully Assad in Syria will get some of the same soon.

[catwoman1952]

all religion is bull****

[MIO42]

You might quite possibly be right friend
But most do teach how to care for each other and not to be / are ready for it ?
"not to be SELFISH"

But you DO have to work at it

[rickn3car]

WELL, WELL...KARMA IS AN S-O-B SOMETIMES....TOO BAD OLD "MO" DID NOT FIND HIMSELF IN A GITMO CELL WITH A HOMOSEXUAL TERRORIST WITH FULL BLOWN AIDS AND BAD INTENTIONS ON HIS MIND!

[Hugh_Ferguson]

Some days it just doesn't pay to get up.

[Bojax39]

Mox nix. What he did to his country was done in return.

[drrealitycheck]

All I saw in the video was the capture of a monster, the destroyer and murderer of countless innocent lives, including hundreds of Americans. Lets not forget the traitors at the top of the British and US government who supported him and armed him for many years.

As for the Geneva convention, in order for there to be an investigation, you'll first have to find a country not guilty of violating that convention. Other than Switzerland and Scandinavia, you won't find one.

[lilbear925]

This just in: Muammar Qaddafi is still seriously dead -- as are the victims of the Lockerbie bombing. He got what he deserved.

[diamruby]

He deserved whatever was done to him & more. He was a blood thirsty killer, the lowest of animals who put much pain & suffering upon others. But will his death bring freedom & a better life to this country still living in the dark belly of the religious rule they suffer under?