(Image Source: The New York Times) 

BY JENNIFER LONG 

More video is emerging of Muammar Gaddafi in his last moments alive. But it doesn’t show his actual death. The video is bloody and graphic – and it begs the question- how exactly did Muammar Gaddafi die?

Libyan officials insist Gaddafi was killed in crossfire, but this new video from Al Jezeera suggests otherwise. The footage shows rebel forces parading a battered, but living Gaddafi through the streets of Sirte.  

The forces discovered Gaddafi hiding in a drainpipe after a NATO airstrike hit his convoy as he attempted to escape the city. With this new video, it’s unclear how Gaddafi died. ABC explains the uncertainty.

Rebel: "We catch him there. And then we shot him."

Reporter: "The fatal shot reportedly fired by this man proudly brandishing Gaddafi’s gold gun. Rebels reportedly propped Gaddafi on the hood of a car for minutes apparently parading their prize through the streets. ‘We want him alive. We want him alive.’ One man was heard saying before Gaddafi was dragged off to the hood towards an ambulance.”

But a senior member of the new Libyan government -- the National Transitional Council -- says Gaddafi’s death was unintentional. CNN has his comments.

Mohammed Sayeh (Senior Member, National Transitional Council): No one decided to kill him or slaughter him as they were saying. It would have been much better for us Libyans and the whole universe to capture him and to take him to a court and see how a dictator, a bad guy who killed lots of Lybian and non-Lybian be charged in front of a court.

Now many from the UN are calling for an investigation. Spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Rupert Colville says in The Mirror..

"You can't just chuck the law out of the window ... Killing someone outside a judicial procedure, even in countries where there is the death penalty, is outside the rule of law."

And the National Post says the perception that NATO had an involvement in Gaddafi’s death could damage the organization. The paper quotes a Canadian Professor of Political Science saying...

“With this imagery circulating, it brings questions about the legitimacy of the mission…The UN had sanctioned the mission and NATO went into it saying we are here to protect civilians and to engage in regime change. If it turns out NATO lent indirect support that led to Gaddafi’s demise, then critics will say that, in the end, NATO brought regime change.”

Officials said Gaddafi was to be buried within 24 hours of his death in accordance with Islamic rites. But Al Jazeera reports Libya’s National Transitional Council has delayed the burial to allow an investigation into Gaddafi’s death.