Gaddafi 'executed by French' – revelations of a Libyan agent
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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TheThe images depicting the demise of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi on October 20th 2011 suggest he was killed by a lynch mob. But could he have been executed by members of France's special forces after being stoned by the crowd? That is the startling claim of a former rebel intelligence chief in Libya who says that the attack on Gaddafi's convoy at Sirte that led to his death was coordinated by the French foreign intelligence agency the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure) on the orders of the Elysée.
