GlobalPost Flashback: Gaddafi's capture and death (VIDEO)

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WARNING: Some images below are particularly graphic and upsetting.

In the final stages of the Libyan rebellion two years ago, GlobalPost's senior correspondent Tracey Shelton traveled with Libya's rebels as they hunted down Col. Muammar Gaddafi, a famously flamboyant dictator who had ruled the country for 42 years.

In a moment that mixed high drama and historic import with revulsion, the rebels finally caught up with Libya's then-leader.

What happened next in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte was as brutal as it was shocking.

The former dictator was pulled from a drainpipe, beaten and — as subsequent video analysis showed — sodomized by his former subjects.

He later died in their captivity.

Shelton was the first reporter on the scene, and she obtained exclusive video of this event:

WARNING: Extremely graphic

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