Disturbing footage allegedly showing the former leader bloodied and captured:
Other videos claiming to show Qaddafi dead are making rounds. Jon Lee Anderson considers the importance of the videos:
Whatever the circumstances that made them possible, the images of dead Qaddafis are bound to have a huge effect amongst Libyans, just as did the audio broadcasts of Muammar Qaddafi’s recorded voice these past weeks. The persistence of Qaddafi’s voice—unmistakably his, defiant and threatening, very much alive—was even more unsettling than if he had maintained a televisual presence, somehow, because it allowed him to cling to his aura of invincibility that had been built up over forty years. Invisible, Qaddafi could be everywhere and nowhere at once, a potential phoenix yet to arise from Libya’s ashes. The image of Qaddafi dying or dead on the ground, being kicked by his killers, however, has put paid to all that.
The Dish 