![Libyan Transitional National Council fighters said Moammar Gadhafi was captured Thursday in this graffitti-filled culvert in Sirte.](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/10/20/culvert_wide-81e48d3f01b5c7cbf16147182656160cac417099.jpg?s=600)
The man who ruled Libya from a fortress-like compound in the heart of Tripoli reportedly spent his last moments holed up in a culvert under a road in his hometown of Sirte. The exact circumstances of his death remained as murky as his whereabouts since the capital fell in August.
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