The international acclaim for the Libyan revolution is being tempered by growing revulsion at the treatment of the bodies of Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mu'tassim.

As investigations continue into the circumstances of their deaths, their bullet-ridden bodies were still on show, with hundreds of people queuing to see them laid out in a cold storage room in Misrata. Occasional chants of "Allahu Akbar" ["God is greatest"] were heard from the crowd, but the calls were muted by the face masks worn by onlookers to overcome the smell from the decomposing bodies.

Nearly three days after the Libyan leader was captured and killed, he has still not been buried, contrary to Islamic custom – a fact that appears to be causing divisions within the National Transitional Council, which appeared paralysed by indecision over what to do with the bodies. One NTC official admitted that the continued presence of Gaddafi in cold storage was a cause of contention.

Gaddafi's widow called from her exile in Algeria for the bodies of her son and husband to be entrusted to her, amid speculation that they could be secretly buried at sea, as in the case of Osama bin Laden, to prevent a burial place becoming a shrine.

Reports that a postmortem would take place at some stage were also quashed by Fathi al-Bashaagha, the Misrata military council spokesman. "There will be no post mortem today, nor any day", he said. However, the authorities are adamant that it has been necessary to put the dictator and his son on show to reassure the Libyan people. Oil minister Ali Tarhouni said: "I told them to keep it [the body] in the freezer for a few days,  to make sure that everybody knows he is dead".

The UN has called for a full investigation into the circumstances of the dictator's death. Video footage recording the minutes after Gaddafi's capture last Thursday, when his convoy came under Nato and rebel attack, shows an alive but injured Gaddafi pleading for his life. Footage of his son, Mu'tassim, smoking a cigarette and seemingly only lightly injured shortly before his death has also raised concerns.

The footage has provoked the US into calling on Libya's new authorities to give a full account of the deaths in an "open and transparent manner".

One of the fighters said to have captured the 69-year-old claimed Libya's former "brother leader" repeatedly offered gold and money in return for his life. "Gaddafi was confused, clearly frightened," Hammad Mufta Ali, 28, told the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.

Mufta Ali, the commander of the rebel Dawahi brigade, told the newspaper he arrived moments after rebels had pulled Gaddafi from a drainage pipe in Sirte. He claimed the former Libyan leader died from blood loss from shrapnel and bullet wounds, rather than from one final gunshot to the head.

"There was a lot of confusion and Gaddafi was surrounded by our men. I saw him pushed and dragged down to the pavement," he said. "He was losing blood, lots of blood. At 69 the body can't resist. I believe he died from blood loss.

"[Gaddafi] then died on the back of the pickup truck," he added. "When they left with him laid out in the back, I think he was already dead."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/22/libya-gaddafi-dead-body-treatment

how come they didn't clean him up

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The Evil Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and NATO Rats Sodomizing of Muammar Gaddafi