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Libyan leader suggests Qaddafi killed by one of his supporters

| October 24, 2011 7:17 AM

Libya's interim prime minister Mustafa Abdul-Jalil has announced there will be a full investigation into the events of Muammar Qaddafi's death, which occurred during a shoot-out between revolutionaries and the dictator's security detail.

Jalil expressed the possibility that the shot to the head that killed the former leader came from one of his own supporters. Jalil suggested that Libyans would have wanted to imprison Qaddafi and hold trial, while the leader's supporters wanted to prevent such humilliation.

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