Libya in Images Live Blog

People stand in line to see the body of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Misrata October 21, 2011. Gaddafi's body lay in an old meat store on Friday as arguments over a burial, and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya's new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy. REUTERS/Saad Shalash

A grab from a video handed over to AFPTV by a National Transitional Council (NTC) fighter shows Mutassim Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, drinking water and smoking a cigarette before his death in Sirte on October 20, 2011. [AFP] 

Anti-Gaddafi fighters fire a rocket during clashes with pro-Gaddafi forces at the frontline in Sirte October 19, 2011. relaunch their offensive on the besieged town of Sirte on Wednesday after being pushed back by die-hard Muammar Gaddafi loyalists holed up in the deposed leader's hometown.

Hundreds of National Transitional Council (NTC) troops have surrounded the Mediterranean coastal town for weeks in a chaotic struggle to snuff out the last pocket of resistance against the revolution that ended Gaddafi's 42-year rule. [Reuters]

A Libyan cleans the hand of an anti-Gaddafi fighter who was wounded in Friday's heavy fighting in the besieged town of Bani Walid September 16, 2011.

Diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi fired barrages of rockets and mortars to repel an assault by Libyan interim government forces on one of their last bastions on Friday and also held off an advance on another. [Reuters]