As-Safir
daily published on Thursday a report from the French weekly “Le Canard Enchaîné”,
revealing that Washington and Paris have sentenced Col. Muammar Gaddafi to
death.
The
weekly added that U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas
Sarkozy did not want Gaddafi to emerge alive from the chase spearheaded by the
NATO in Libya last March, fearing that he will “talk too much” before the International
Criminal Court and that leaving him
alive would turn him into a “nuclear bomb”.
The
weekly denied the accounts put forth by the NATO according to which, “Gaddafi
was trying to escape Sirte in a convoy, when French and U.S. drones fired on his
convoy, leaving him wounded. NTC forces later captured and killed Gaddafi.”
The
weekly urged western countries and the U.S. to investigate the circumstances around
Muammar Gaddafi's death, adding that a French special unit was around the location
where Gaddafi was detained, and knows many details about his killing.
The
weekly added that on October 19, few hours before Gaddafi’s convoy was shelled
in Sirte, a colonel at the Pentagon had called a leader of the French Military
Intelligence, which was tasked with chasing after the Libyan leader, and had told
him that “Gaddafi has fallen into the trap, the U.S. drones have located him in
a district of Sirte and it became impossible for him to escape the grip of his chasers.”
The
U.S. Chief told the French Leader: “Leaving Gaddafi alive will turn him into a
nuclear bomb.”
Sarkozy
had earlier tasked France's Special Chief of Staff Benoît Puga with overseeing
the chase after Gaddafi. Gen. Puga pressed on with his mission in collaboration
with the French Military Intelligence and the French special unit in Libya.
The
weekly revealed that on October 20, at 8h30 a.m. a U.S. drone fired on a 75-vehicle
convoy that was heading out of Sirte at high speed. A French Mirage aircraft along
with a drone launched laser guided bombs towards the convoy, destroying 21
vehicles and wounding Gaddafi.