Libyans Jubilant Over Gadhafi's Death

Street celebrations take place at home and elsewhere
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 20, 2011 3:09 PM CDT
Libyans Jubilant Over Gadhafi's Death
Mohammed al-Babi holds a golden pistol he says belonged to Moammar Gadhafi in Sirte.   (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Libyans at home and abroad took to the streets today to celebrate the death of you know who. “This is the happiest moment of my life,” says a 22-year-old driver in Benghazi. “When I heard the news on television I didn’t believe it; I ran off to the streets and I started jumping up and down.” Thousands of Yemenis used the occasion to celebrate and renew their call for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, notes Bloomberg. (More Moammar Gadhafi killed stories.)

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