You would have thought....

[chirpychirpy]

If Gaddafi wanted to hide away and not be recognised, why didn't he shave off his very distinctive facial hair...even the hair on his head? I doubt many people would have spotted him like that.

[rowanwitch]

or was it a double... I'd want to wait for DNA confirmation. Saddam used them a lot and I wouldn't put it past Gaddaffi to do the same

[Gromit]

Gaddafi had plenty of chances to run away to a neighbouring country but chose to stay to the end with his loyalists. It would be a bit demoralising to his troops if he attempted to disguise himself.

[cathfromsaron]

it was defo him! i would have worn local dress and got rid of myobvious bodyguards if i were him! no sense!

[Quizmonster]

Gaddafi specifically SAID months ago that he would not flee and - despite the fact that many of us believed he would disappear to Saudi Arabia or some neighbouring country - he was true to his word. A thoroughly nasty character, of course, but at least in that one respect he was honest.

[andy-hughes]

I agree with QM - it goes against every tenet of his personality to be anything less than who he was, especially to his loyal supporters. He would have wanted to die with as much dignity and charisma as possible - a desire clearly denied by his captors, who saw him as a mad dog, and shot him like one.

[rojash]

Also, of course, not many drain holes have shaver sockets.

[anotheoldgit]

/// A sombre-looking Mr Cameron delivered his brief statement in Downing Street. “I think today is a day to remember all of Colonel Gaddafi’s victims, from those who died in connection with the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, to Yvonne Fletcher in a London street, and obviously all the victims of IRA terrorism who died through their use of Libyan Semtex,” he said. ///

Perhaps Gaddafi should be blamed for the IRA's use of Libyan Semtex,but excuse me weren't most of the mass murderers who used the stuff to kill innocent people, later freed from prison by a Labour government?

[bondgirl007]

surely he cant have a double, another person in this world as ugly as that

[Zeuhl]

The criticism of Gaddafi for supplying weapons to people like the IRA is understandable but is also incredibly hypocritical.

What about all the innocent people killed by Saddam using American supplied weapons?

What about all the innocent people killed in Indonesia and The Gulf using British supplied weapons? Most notably perhaps The Hawk aircraft, supposedly sold as a trainer but in fact equipped and used for ground attack often against civilians.

And is anyone convinced that using our planes to tip the balance in rebel Libyan assaults on Gadaffi strongholds was somehow 'protecting civilians'. At the very least it's a bit of a stretch. If in fact we were killing people as part of a regime change it's a disgrace we don't stand up and say so.

All in all, The Prime Minister should be careful who he throws stones at - he lives in a 'glass house' with some big windows.

[Gromit]

AOG

The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) (which let both loyalist and IRA killers free) was mostly negotiated by John Major. Blair signed it in 1998 shortly after coming to power.

You choose: British Army deaths in Northern Ireland

1969 - 1998 = 1,115
1999- 2011 = 2

[DTCwordfan]

There is a very strong opinion that Pam Am was not a Libyan massacre - there is very strong evidence now that it was Iranian or Iranian sponsored through Syria - the bomb was a Syrian assembled device, as there are different "fingerprints" as to the way these things are assembled.

6 months beforehand, the US Navy had brought down an Iran Air plane w. c 140 pax.....the Libyan bombing by Reagan had been 2 years early. Qadaffi was more than ready to take the "credit" being the whacko pariah that he was..... The Iranians are/were happy with this as they got their revenge but without having to endure the full wrath of the States.

Britain could do everybody a favour in getting out the truth of what happened - i.e. release Blairs papers and MI5/6 records, even if it risks an embarrassing volte-face for the US security services.