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PETER'S NEW YORK, Thursday, October 27, 2011--Muammar Qaddafi lives, and videos of a man being captured, cruelly tortured and murdered were not of the Libyan leader, but of a look-alike, the Mathaba news service reported today.
The man in the now-famous videos was identified in an article posted on the Mathaba website as Ali Majid Al Andalus, a resident of the Libyan city of Sirte, Qaddafi's hometown.
"[T]the martyr humiliated and presented as Muammar Al-Gaddafi...has been identified as the real person actually called Ali Majid Al Andalus...", said the article. The news service indicated the article was an english translation of an original posting on the French-language website stcom.net.
The article examines the features of Muammar Qaddafi compared to recently circulated photographs of a body that has been widely publicized as being that of Qaddafi.
"The man in the photo with the bullet hole in the head was not Muammar al Gaddafi, but his double," said the article.
Describing itself as an independent news service, Mathaba.net has traditionally had close ties to the Libyan regime of Muammar Qaddafi, and actively espouses the principles contained in Qaddafi's "Green Book," a compendium of the Libyan leader's teachings and reflections.
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(Note: Peter's New York cannot affirm the death of Libyan leader Col. Muammar Qaddafi until verifiably authentic statements by close family members attest to the same, and/or until customary methods of identification, such as fingerprints, are used to verify the identity of the corpses, which were held for several days by NTC forces before alleged burial at an undisclosed location. Formal death certificates must also be presented for examination by the public. The international mass media has failed to demand such verification, which failure encourages the replication of abuses of the public trust and crimes against humanity.)
