Reports indicate Gadhafi is dead
利比亚媒体称卡扎菲已死

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Reports indicate deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is dead, the National Transitional Council spokesman said Thursday.
利比亚的黎波里-利比亚过渡委员会发言人周四表示，媒体消息表明利比亚前领导人卡扎菲已经身亡。

Revolutionary fighters attacked the house where Gadhafi was hiding, Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam told CNN. Gadhafi was shot while trying to flee, he said.
利比亚新闻部长Mahmoud Shammam告诉CNN记者，当局革命战士袭击了卡扎菲避难的住所，卡扎菲在试图逃逸中被枪击。

"Colonel Gadhafi is history," he said, adding that interim council's chairman or prime minister needs to officially confirm the death.
他表示：“卡扎菲上校已经成为历史。”不过他也表示过渡委员会主席或总理还需官方确认卡扎菲的死讯。

However, Gadhafi's status remained unclear as a host of conflicting reports surfaced Thursday. None could be independently verified.
不过由于周四许多互相矛盾的新闻报道出现在媒体上，所以目前卡扎菲的生死状况未明。各种报道目前都无法确认真实性。

AbdelHakim Bilhajj, head of the National Transitional Council's military arm in Tripoli announced Gadhafi’s death live on Al-Jazeera Arabic Thursday. It was also reported by National Transitional Council television station Al-Ahrar. It did not cite a source.
利比亚军事委员会主席贝尔哈吉（AbdelHakim Bilhajj）周四在阿拉伯半岛电视台直播报道中宣布了卡扎菲的死讯。过渡委员会电视台Al-Ahrar也报道了这一消息。但报道并未引用消息来源。

A grisly cell phone photograph distributed by the news agency Agence France Presse appeared to show the arrest of a bloodied Gadhafi. CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the image.
法新社发布了一张恐怖的照片，这张手机拍摄的照片似乎记录的正是浑身是血的卡扎菲被捕时候的情景。CNN无法单独证实照片影像的真实性。

The U.S. State Department could not confirm any of the reports about Gadhafi's capture or killing, a spokeswoman said.
美国国务院女发言人表示，美国国务院无法证实任何关于卡扎菲被捕或已经身亡的报道。

Abubaker Saad, who served as a Gadhafi aide for nine years, said it didn't really matter whether Gadhafi was dead or alive -- as long as he was captured.
曾担任九年卡扎菲侍从副官职位的Abubaker Saad表示，一旦卡扎菲被捕，那他的生死根本无关紧要。

"As long as he was on the run he represented a very ominous danger to the Libyan people," Saad told CNN.
Saad告诉CNN：“只要卡扎菲仍然在逃，他就是利比亚人民极大的危险。”

In another major development, revolutionary fighters said they wrested control of Sirte Thursday. And NATO said it is going to convene soon for a meeting to discuss ending its operation in Libya, a source told CNN.
有消息告诉CNN记者，在另一次重要行动中，当局革命战士表示他们已经控制了苏尔特市。北约表示会马上召开会议讨论结束其在利比亚的行动。

Without foolproof evidence of Gadhafi's capture, it was unclear whether Thursday would turn out to be the biggest day in recent Libyan history. Statements made by representatives of Libya's new leadership in the past have not always turned out to be true.
因为没有确切证据证实卡扎菲被捕，所以目前仍然不清楚这个周四会不会成为近年来利比亚历史上最重大的日子。不过过去的事实表明，利比亚新领导层代表人的声明并不一定都是真实无误的。

But Libyans, who have been waiting for months for Gadhafi's demise, erupted in deafening celebrations.
但是已经苦苦等待卡扎菲死讯数月之久的利比亚人民，已经迫不及待地开始了盛大的庆祝仪式。

Horns blared and celebratory gunfire burst into the air in Tripoli.
胜利的号角和庆祝的炮火响彻的黎波里的天空。

Gadhafi ruled Libya with an iron fist for 42 years. The mercurial leader came to power in a bloodless coup against King Idris in 1969, when he was just an army captain.
卡扎菲以铁腕手段统治利比亚达42年之久，这位机智的领导人在1969年发动不流血的政变夺取政权，将当时的国王伊德里斯赶下台。当时的卡扎菲只是一个军队上尉。

Many were waiting for photographs as proof of Gadhafi's capture.
许多人在等待照片，以证实卡扎菲被捕的消息。

Earlier, anti-Gadhafi fighters said they had taken control of the last holdout of loyalists in Sirte. They said they were still battling pockets of resistance, but they were in control of District 2.
早些时候，反卡扎菲的执政当局武装表示他们已经控制了卡扎菲死忠者在苏尔特市的最后一块阵地。虽然他们还在与残余势力对抗，但他们已经控制了苏尔特市第二区。

Most residents abandoned Sirte in the many weeks of bloody battles that raged there. Revolutionary forces have fought Gadhafi's men street by street, cornering the last vestiges of the old regime to that last district.
因为数周的残酷激战已经让苏尔特市破烂不堪，该市的大部分市民已经离开。执政当局武装与卡扎菲的军队进行了激烈巷战。卡扎菲旧政权的残存势力也在这个城市最终走投无路。

Gadhafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, for alleged crimes against humanity has not been seen in public in months. Many believed he was hiding out in Sirte after rebel forces marched into Tripoli in August.
海牙国际刑事法庭向卡扎菲发布通缉令，指控其危害人类罪名。卡扎菲已经有几个月没有出现在公众视线中。很多人都认为自八月份叛军攻入的黎波里以来卡扎菲一直躲在苏尔特市。

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