Islam Times - Gaddafi family request body of their Father

Islam Times - The family of killed Muammar Gaddafi have asked to bury the body the former Libyan leader in a statement on a Syria-based pro-Gaddafi television station ...

Islam Times: "We call on the UN, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and Amnesty International to force the Transitional Council to hand over the martyrs' bodies to our tribe in Sirte and to allow them to perform their burial ceremony in accordance with Islamic customs and rules," the statement said.

Including the body of Muammar Gaddafi the family also have demanded the bodies of his son Motassim and of all others who were killed on the day of the death of their father.

In Misrata, Libya a local commander, Addul-Salam Eleiwa, showed the body, torso bare, on a mattress inside a metal-lined cold-store by a market on Friday. There was a bullet hole in his head.

Addul-Salam Eleiwa, then said: "He will get his rights, like any Muslim. His body will be washed and treated with dignity. I expect he will be buried in a Muslim cemetery within 24 hours."

Umpteen amounts of people, many with their mobile phone and cameras came to see Gaddafi dead.

"There's something in our hearts we want to get out," said Abdullah al-Suweisi, 30, as he waited. "It is the injustice of 40 years. There is hatred inside. We want to see him."

In Tripoli, Gaddafi's death prompted a carnival-like celebration, with fireworks, a bouncy castle and candy floss for the children. "Muammar, bad," one small girl said to foreign journalists in English. "Boom boom."

"For some people from outside Libya it could look wrong that we are celebrating a death with our children," said one man with a child on his shoulders. "But it was 42 years with the devil."

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