Gaddafi buried in unknown place in desert

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was buried early Tuesday morning in a secret location in desert, Al-Jazeera television reported, quoting officials of the ruling Libyan National Transitional Council. Muammar Gaddafi's body has been buried in secret after being displayed in public, in an ignominious end for Libya's longtime ruler.The last top figures of his ousted regime, Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, meanwhile, were poised to cross the border into Niger. A Misrata military council member said Gaddafi was buried on Monday night in a religious ceremony, along with another of his sons, Mutassim and former defence minister Abu Bakr Yunis Jaber. Saif al-Islam was "near the Niger border, he hasn't entered Niger yet but he's close", a local official from the northern Niger Agadez region said.  The bodies had been put on display in a market freezer on the outskirts of Misrata, with thousands of Libyans queuing up since Friday to view and photograph them. According to guards at the entrance to the market, a convoy of four or five military vehicles took the bodies away to an unknown location, being kept secret to avoid the site turning into a rallying point for Gaddafi supporters. Three Muslim religious figures loyal to the ousted dictator prayed and performed a religious ceremony before the burial, according to the military council member. The overnight burials come amid raging controversy over the circumstances of Gaddafi's death after he was taken alive last Thursday during the fall of his hometown Sirte, the last hold out after an eight-month armed revolt.