Gaddafi 'executed by French' – revelations of a Libyan agent

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French agents helped capture and then kill Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011, according to a senior figure in the Libyan revolution. In an interview with Mediapart, Rami el-Obeidi, ex-head of intelligence for Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC), said: “French agents directly executed Gaddafi.” The reason, says el-Obeidi, was that Gaddafi's threat to reveal details of his funding of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign “was taken sufficiently seriously for whoever at the Elysée to want the rapid death of Gaddafi”. Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske report on this explosive new twist in the saga of Sarkozy and Gaddafi's close ties.

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