Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, sources claim

PUBLISHED: 11:43 GMT, 30 September 2012 | UPDATED: 06:56 GMT, 1 October 2012

A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was sensationally claimed today.

He is said to have infiltrated a violent mob mutilating the captured Libyan dictator last year and shot him in the head.

The motive, according to well-placed sources in the North African country, was to stop Gaddafi being interrogated about his highly suspicious links with Sarkozy, who was President of France at the time.

There are still pockets of support for former leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya, despite his death

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's former president, allegedly ordered the murder of former Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi

Other former western leaders, including ex British Prime Minister Tony Blair, were also extremely close to Gaddafi, visiting him regularly and helping to facilitate multi-million pounds business deals.

Sarkozy, who once welcomed Gaddafi as a 'brother leader' during a state visit to Paris, was said to have received millions from the Libyan despot to fund his election campaign in 2007.

The conspiracy theory will be of huge concern to Britain which sent RAF jet to bomb Libya last year with the sole intention of 'saving civilian lives'.

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A United Nations mandate which sanctioned the attack expressly stated that the western allies could not interfere in the internal politics of the country.

Instead the almost daily bombing runs ended with Gaddafi's overthrow, while both French and British military 'advisors' were said to have assisted on the ground.

Now Mahmoud Jibril, who served as interim Prime Minister following Gaddafi's overthrow, told Egyptian TV: 'It was a foreign agent who mixed with the revolutionary brigades to kill Gaddafi.'

Gaddafi was killed on October 20 in a final assault on his hometown Sirte by fighters of the new regime, who said they had cornered the ousted despot in a sewage pipe waving a golden gun. The moment was captured on video

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, covered in blood, is pulled from a truck by NTC fighters in Sirte before he was killed

Revolutionary Libyan fighters inspect a storm drain where Muammar Gaddafi was found wounded in Sirte, Libya, last year

Diplomatic sources in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, meanwhile suggested to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra that a foreign assassin was likely to have been French.

The paper writes: 'Since the beginning of NATO support for the revolution, strongly backed by the government of Nicolas Sarkozy, Gaddafi openly threatened to reveal details of his relationship with the former president of France, including the millions of dollars paid to finance his candidacy at the 2007 elections.'

One Tripoli source said: 'Sarkozy had every reason to try to silence the Colonel and as quickly as possible.'

The view is supported by information gathered by investigaters in Benghazi, Libya's second city and the place where the 'Arab Spring' revolution against Gaddafi started in early 2011.

Rami El Obeidi, the former head of foreign relations for the Libyan transitional council, said he knew that Gaddafi had been tracked through his satellite telecommunications system as he talked to Bashar Al-Assad, the Syrian dictator.

Nato experts were able to trace the communicatiosn traffic between the two Arab leaders, and so pinpoint Gaddafi to the city of Sirte, where he was murdered on October 20 2011.

Nato jets shot up Gaddafi's convoy, before rebels on the ground dragged Gaddafi from a drain where he was hiding and then subjected him to a violent attack which was videod.

In another sinister twist to the story, a 22-year-old who was among the group which attacked Gaddafi and who frequently brandished the gun said to have killed him, died in Paris last Monday.

Ben Omran Shaaban was said to have been beaten up himself by Gaddafi loyalists in July, before being shot twice.He was flown to France for treatment, but died of his injuries in hospital.

Sarkozy, who lost the presidential election in May, has continually denied receiving money from Gaddafi.

Today he was unavailable for comment, but is facing a number of enquiries into alleged financial irregularities.

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I have not seem my last comment published. Just wondering if you guys have the same sick policy as other Brit/Western Media of picking and choosing what pleases your Masters!!!

- Uuuu , London, United Kingdom, 02/10/2012 14:59

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Well someone killed him........................And frankly I couldn't care less WHO it was. If I'd ever have got near him with my SLR I'd have done it - and so would any other British soldier who had mates killed by arms and ammunition he supplied by the shipload to the PIRA.

- Old Robert , Worcester UK, 02/10/2012 11:06

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I don't believe it! I've always been convinced that Blair was the head behind the hand with the gun.

- Gwyn , Newport, United Kingdom, 02/10/2012 10:27

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ELIMINATED....Just like W.Bush did to Hussein , Reagan did to Sadat and to a degree Noriega, Kennedy did to Diem, IKE did to Mosaddegh . TOO MUCH knowledge CAN be fatal or at the very LEAST incapacitating. Makes ya wonder what UnoCal Karzai takes to get to sleep at night....just saying. Good luck Hamid!

- RobaLiquorStore , OurTown, United States, 01/10/2012 21:39

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For us as Libyans we don't care by who killed because we fought contra the darkness we lived during his period and we all looking forward the shinning future we will chose the right man and right administration to lead the country to the right way ...... It was 42 years of the dictatorship more then Enough

- Khaled S Attia , tripoli, Libya, 01/10/2012 19:19

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Rubbish they don't have the stomach for it.

- The Magis Genie , Staffordshire, United Kingdom, 01/10/2012 19:18

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Is this not something we often accuse the Yanks of doing? Laurence of Pewsey, Pewsey, 30/9/2012 The Yanks have got their bloodied hands in this along the line somewhere, Obama and Clinton both wanted Gaddaffi dead for one reason or another, Not just Sarkozy and Hague.

- Alan , North Notts, 01/10/2012 19:16

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Just say no when our politicians want to start or fund another war. There's always something in it for them!

- John Peel , Leeds, 01/10/2012 19:08

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So the person who starts their content with "I thought Gaddaffi was sexy!" gets 113 green arrows. God help us.

- liam , birmingham, 01/10/2012 18:29

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That's what Gaddafi gets for unilaterally giving up his weapons of mass destruction. We can be sure the world's remaining two-bit dictators learned plenty from that example.

- Mike_Carrington , Indianapolis, 01/10/2012 18:23

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