When I first heard this story on the radio this morning, I actually said "What the..?" Out loud. It just so happens that the corpse of Moammar Gadhafi is being stored in a commercial freezer at a shopping center in Misurata, Libya. Really.
The Associated Press reports the body's strange circumstances are due to efforts by the Transitional National Council to keep angry crowds away from Gadhafi's corpse.
An AP correspondent who saw the body described it this way:
The body, stripped to the waist and wearing beige trousers, was laid on a bloodied mattress on the floor of an emptied-out room-sized freezer where restaurants and stores in the center normally keep perishables. A bullet hole was visible on the left side of his head — with the bullet still lodged in his head, according to the presiding doctor — and in the center of his chest and stomach. His hair was matted and dried blood streaks his arms and head.
Both the United Nations and Amnesty International have indicated they want an investigation into Gadhafi's death. Claudio Cordone, senior director at Amnesty International, wrote on the group's website:
"If Colonel Gadhafi was killed after his capture, it would constitute a war crime and those responsible should be brought to justice."
The Libyan men waiting in line to view Gadhafi's corpse might disagree. Take a look at the video below, courtesy of the Telegraph, of Libyans queuing up to see their former dictator's dead body:
