god is great. there is also relief. he said they can now start getting the real work done. they are planning to announce officially the liberation of libya on saturday. in the meantime, they have said they will go ahead with the burial of gadhafi s body. according to islamic law, it has to happen within 24 hours. [inaudible] . the transitional government will make that decision. when we asked would it simply be a burr willial, he said [inaudible] adrienne mong, i m sorry, our signal is not great. thank you very much for joining us. moammar gadhafi s death is a significant win in president obama s foreign policy. a short time ago, the president announced word of gadhafi s demise and tot ewing successes.
drone fired upon a convoy carrying the former dictator as he attempted to flee his hometown of sirte. what happened next is an evolving story. chief pentagon correspondent has been working his sources over the day. what are you learn being the are drone strike? u.s. military officials are telling us a predator drone fired a missile at moammar gadhafi s 15-vehicle convoy. in addition, one nato war plane fired a rocket at that missile at that very convoy. according to the officials, several of the vehicles were either struck or disabled. the rest had been scattered. it appears that moammar gadhafi was in or near one of the vehicles struck. he made his way to a nearby drainage pipe alongside the highway where his rebel captors eventually found him. took him into custody and that video where we see him alive and
welcome back, everybody. breaking news we continue to follow on msnbc. this graphic cell phone picture demonstrates that anti-gadhafi forces claim prove that moammar gadhafi is dead. we re still waiting for official reaction from the white house. still a lot of confusion on the ground about how it happened. right now there are cheers and celebratory gunfire out of libya at this hour following report rts of gadhafi s death. a rebel fighter claims he was found in a hole shouting don t shoot when he was caught. speaking from iowa today, gop presidential candidate mitt romney released a statement about the reported death of moammar gadhafi saying, it s about time, and added the world is a better place with gadhafi down. joining me now is bobby gosh, a writer and editor of time magazine, as well as our own richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent. what is going to be the action
in custody of those rebel forces before he apparently died somehow in an ambulance on his way from sirte to misrata. what s interesting is as you know, the predator drones are not just there to fire missiles, but the primary mission is surveillance. it s very likely given the kind of intense fighting over sirte and u.s. intelligence that said moammar gadhafi is in sirte, that that predator drone was hovering over sirte when moammar gadhafi made his way into the convoy and out of sirte. it is more likely than not that the u.s. military already knew that moammar gadhafi was that n that convoy when they fired upon it. which of course raises the question about u.s. claims that they were not out to actually kill moammar gadhafi. it appears they weren t. indeed, jim. you rub shoulders with more military sources than i have
what you hear, shouts of god is great while others say, quote the blood of the martyrs will not be in vain. the camera tilts down, you see it there the head of gadhafi. wounds on his face, including a gunshot wound in the forehead. officials of the nur lew libyan government said he died of shotgun wounds to the head. suggests he deserves some credit for gadhafi s demise. our brave pilots have flown in libya s skies. our sailors provided support off libya s shores. and our leadership at nato has helped guide our coalition. without putting a single u.s. service member on the ground, we achieved our objectives, and our nato mission will soon come to an end. i m john king in washington. we d like to welcome viewers not only here in the united states but around the world. we consider the fallout of the breaking news, death of moammar gadhafi. there are many important unanswered questions tonight, including just how did gadhafi die. did his ruthless son saif die with him? the