LIBYA

Two trusted loyalists of Libya's interim government were handed Muammar Gadhafi's body to bury secretly deep in the Sahara desert on Tuesday after a cleric prayed over his decomposing corpse, an official said.

The body of the late Libyan dictator, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, was buried at a secret location, at dawn on Tuesday, al-Jazeera reported. The burial will, hopefully, end the ongoing wrangle over the amount of time his decomposing body was left to rot by officials of the Libyan interim government.

Moammar Gadhafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried at dawn Tuesday in an unknown location, ending a wrangle over their rotting bodies, a Libyab official said.

Libyan rebels, who captured Moammar Gadhafi from a storm drain outside his hometown of Sirte, allegedly sodomized the former leader with an object just after he was detained.

An autopsy performed on the body of Col. Moammar Gadhafi has confirmed that the former Libyan dictator was killed by a shot to the head. The autopsy was performed by Libya's chief forensic pathologist, Dr. Othman el-Zentani.

Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will be buried Tuesday in a secret desert grave, a National Transitional Council official said Monday night, ending a wrangle over his rotting corpse that led many to fear for Libya's governability.

Moderate Islamists claimed victory Monday in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Muslim parties are challenging for power after the Arab Spring.

Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, a fugitive son of the recently killed Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, is near Libya's borders with Niger and Algeria and planning to flee the country using a forged passport, according to the National Transitional Council.

Tensions rise between the U.S. and Syria as diplomats are called home.

Despite claims by Libya's interim government that dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed in crossfire after revolutionary fighters captured him Thursday, a Libyan rebel has confessed on camera to the killing.

New video of Moammar Gadhafi's capture in Sirte, Libya shows that revolutionary fighters attacked their former leader moments before he died.

Moderate Islamists said on Monday their party appeared to be ahead in Tunisia's first free election since an uprising earlier this year that set off the Arab Spring revolts, hinting at a shift in a country long known for its secularism.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro denounced NATO on Monday for its role in the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known.

Libya's interim rulers ended the public display of the bodies of Muammar Gaddafi, his son and army chief on Monday after four days in which thousands of Libyans came to see for themselves that the dictator was really dead.

Moammar Gadhafi's wife is calling on the United Nations to investigate the death of the fighter Moammar and Mutassim.

The transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil declared Sunday the end of Libya's eight-month-long war and set out a vision for a post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya that will have an Islamist tint.

Moammar Gadhafi's cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, the chief pathologist who performed the autopsy confirmed on Sunday.

For Libya, it is a form of liberation and rebirth, following the death of former dictator, Col. Moammar Gadhafi. The new rulers have made a statement, by leaving Gadhafi's body, for the third day, in Misrata. The whole scene looked quite like a carnival, as people lined up to look at the decomposing bodies of Gadhafi, his son and an army chief.

Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the longest-ruling Arab leader in history died on Thursday a humiliating and gory end when he was executed by rebel fighters.

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi is shocked and outraged by the vicious brutality shown towards his father and brother Mo'tassim and said it showed no one connected to the former government would receive a fair trial in Libya, Saadi's lawyer said on Sunday.

At a time when confusions loom over what to do with Libyan ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi's body, a will has emerged on his Web site, Seven Days News, indicating that the autocrat's last will was to be buried in his birthplace Sirte according to Muslim rituals.