Moammar Gadhafi Killed in Libya; Last of Moammar Gadhafi's Sons Being Tracked Down in Libya; Brother of Pan Am Bombing Victim Interviewed; Libyans Cheer Gadhafi's Death; What Happens to Gadhafi's Money; NATO's Role in Post- Gadhafi Libya; Gadhafi Death New Notch in Obama's Feign Policy Belt
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): The final moments of a desperate dictator. Moammar Gadhafi meeting his end in a battle for his hometown, and we're learning more about NATO's role in taking him out.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): The seaside villas, the private planes, the golden gun. Billions in frozen assets. What happens to the dictator's fortune now?</s>COSTELLO: And families of Lockerbie victims seeking payback of a different kind on this AMERICAN MORNING.</s>ROMANS: Good morning. It's Friday, October 21, 2011. Welcome to</s>AMERICAN MORNING. COSTELLO: Friday. You know, it's my favorite day, besides Saturday and Sunday.</s>ROMANS: You don't buy that this is end of the world? You know that --</s>ROMANS: There are some pictures that today is the end of the world.</s>COSTELLO: I totally ignored them this time for good reason.</s>COSTELLO: Thank goodness.</s>COSTELLO: Up first this morning, Libya is still cheering the death of former dictator, Moammar Gadhafi. Celebrations lasting for hours. Libya will officially mark a new day tomorrow, and there are new videos and images that virtually take a step-by-step through Gadhafi's final seconds, but we warn you, some of these pictures, this video is graphic. Here's Dan Rivers.</s>DAN RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This was how it all ended for Moammar Gadhafi. Cornered and injured, the former dictator was apparently trying to escape Sirte. He appears bloody but alive here, but died soon afterwards according to NTC officials, his golden gun brandished in wild excitement by NTC troops who seized him, a potent symbol of his decadence. The news of his death spread rapidly across country, disbelief turning into jubilation in Tripoli.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are very free. Today is my birthday and I feel I am six hours' old. Really, Libya's free without him.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are so happy. It's a great, the greatest moment in all my life. And I have my brother who was killed by Gadhafi forces on the 20th of February, we was so, so sad. But now is a great moment. We are so happy. We are so, so happy.</s>RIVERS (on camera): Many of the people here have known nothing other than colonel Gadhafi's 42-year rule. They cannot believe now that finally he is dead, but Sirte has fallen, the war is over. Just look at the sea of flags out here in celebration.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: Wow.</s>RIVERS: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton learned of the news from her BlackBerry as she prepared for an interview.</s>CLINTON: Unconfirmed reports about Gadhafi being captured.</s>RIVERS: But soon officials were confirming the momentous news.</s>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end. The last major regime strongholds have fallen. A new government is consolidating the control over the country, and one of the world's longest serving dictators is no more.</s>RIVERS: The Arab spring came here on February the 17th when a rebellion against Gadhafi's iron rule spread. Now the winds are turmoil and change that are blowing so strong across the Arab world have claimed yet another victim, and Libya is finally free of the man who so brutalized this country.</s>COSTELLO: And you're looking at a picture of Misrata. You see people gathering there. The celebrations have quieted down but people still out on the streets talking about this momentous event in their history. Dan Rivers is in Misrata. He joins live on the phone. So Dan, first of all, I want to ask you first about Saif Gadhafi, because I talked to a member of the National Transitional Council earlier. He told me they had Gadhafi's son surrounded. What do you know?</s>RIVERS: We hear from one NTC official that they think his convoy is in an area which is down in the mountainous area, I guess slightly south and west of Misrata, towards Bani Walid, which was a stronghold of Gadhafi;s resistance until a few days ago. It's very difficult to put too much credibility in the statements and claims. They've often come out with information that is incorrect or inaccurate. But that's the latest information that we have. They're saying she in country still. That they know where he is and they are trying to surround his convoy, and dispelling the idea he may have fled south over the border.</s>COSTELLO: Why is it important for them to capture or kill him?</s>RIVERS: Well, I think it will be enormously significant if they manage to capture him alive, because he would effectively be the only member of the Gadhafi family that they could put on trial, potentially in the International Criminal Court in the Hague. He's wanted there on war crimes charges. So, I mean, I think that would be a huge boost for the Libyan people. A lot of the people we spoke to want to see some sort of trial. They want to see someone from the Gadhafi regime held to account, cross-examined, made to answer the questions about why they brutalized this country for so long and sold so much of its oil well without allowing it to trickle down to ordinary people. I think that would be important to the NTC, and very important for many of the people.</s>COSTELLO: Dan Rivers reporting live for us from Misrata, Libya, this morning.</s>ROMANS: NATO officials are expected to meet later today in Brussels. And now that Gadhafi is dead, the coalition's mission in Libya is likely to come to an official end. Meantime, we're learning more about the NATO airstrike that led to Gadhafi's demise. Chris Lawrence has new details now live from the Pentagon. Good morning, Chris.</s>CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Hey, good morning, Christine. Yes, there was a point where the official version of how Moammar Gadhafi died and what we've seen with other own eyes in some of the pictures and video simply don't add up. But we are getting some more new information about what led up to those final moments. NATO officials now say that the Gadhafi loyalists were boxed in to a particular area of the city of Sirte, and they had drones that were keeping aerial surveillance on that area. About 8:30 in the morning a group, a convoy of those loyalists, made a break for it, driving west out of the city of Sirte. That's when an American predator drone and French fighter jets hit that convoy, taking out several of the vehicles. Now, they don't believe Gadhafi was injured or killed in that initial strike on the convoy, but it did stop the convoy, split it up and sent people out on foot. Some of the rebel, the NTC, say that they discovered Gadhafi in a drainage pipe, and at that point a firefight broke out between themselves and fighters still loyal to Gadhafi. That's when the stories we've heard. We've seen the pictures of a bloody Gadhafi being hauled across the hood of a car, pushed around. But the official version from the NTC, from Libyan officials, is that he died in the cross fire between his own forces and the rebels.</s>ROMANS: So what's next, then, for the NATO mission in Libya?</s>LAWRENCE: We expect that the supreme military commander is going to call a special session, probably today, actually, in which they're address ending, officially ending the mission. He's basically looking at basically two key pieces of intelligence. Does NATO believe that the NTC now controls the city of Sirte? Yes, they do. And do they think that the Gadhafi loyalists can mount a significant counterattack? At this point, NATO does not. So the NATO mission is likely to officially end probably by today.</s>ROMANS: The NTC and Mohammed Sayah telling us they think Saif al Islam is being chased into the southern part of the country. So he's surrounded. Any kind of resistance that could come up around Saif, it's looks as though the NTC is confident that that's not going to happen.</s>LAWRENCE: Yes, when it comes to Saif, I mean, you've already got so many previous stories in which -- I mean, we've heard him reported dead at times, with people celebrating his death. And then you see a video of him alive and well just a few hours later. So it's a very chaotic situation there in Libya. We may have to let this play out over several hours or several days before we get a real clear picture on his whereabouts and what happens next with him.</s>ROMANS: All right, Chris Lawrence in Washington. Thanks, Chris.</s>COSTELLO: Vice president Joe Biden says NATO got it right with its assault against Gadhafi. The vice president pointing out that the United States spent just $2 billion on the mission in Libya without losing a single American life. Biden sitting down with "STATE OF THE UNION" host Candy Crowley, calling Gadhafi's demise an opportunity the Libyan people cannot afford to squander.</s>JOE BIDEN, U.S. VICE PRESIDENT: This is one bad guy, one really tough guy. He for 40 years had his folks under his thumb. and he's dead, and it's going to give the people of Libya their first chance in four decades to actually put together their own government and have a little bit of freedom, a little bit of opportunity.</s>COSTELLO: Be sure to catch candy's entire interview with the vice president this Sunday on "STATE OF THE UNION" at 10:00 eastern on</s>CNN. ROMANS: For Brian Kelly, the death of Moammar Gadhafi represents a promise kept. Flynn's big brother John Patrick was one of the 270 who were killed when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland nearly 23 years ago. Brian made a silent promise to J.P. that day, and he honored it. Here's Susan Candiotti.</s>SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: When you heard the news, what did you think?</s>BRIAN KELLY, BROTHER OF PAN AM FLIGHT 103 VICTIM: I was thrilled. And I didn't expect to have that reaction. I'd been dreaming about this more than 20 years, but it was always with the sense you don't want to be the vengeful one that thinks I want my brother's murderer killed, but in a way you do.</s>CANDIOTTI: Flynn's big brother J.P. was coming home for Christmas after studying abroad when a bomb killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland. (on camera) To you and to the other families, what did Gadhafi represent?</s>KELLY: He was an unrepentant murder of these innocent kids coming home from Christmas. So he did represent the essence of evil to us.</s>CANDIOTTI (voice-over): We showed him video of Gadhafi's body for the first time.</s>KELLY: It's too bad they couldn't kill him more than once.</s>CANDIOTTI (on camera): On a personal front, what are your reflections on this day about your brother?</s>KELLY: I remember promising my brother that I wouldn't let it go unanswered, that I would do what I could to get him. I definitely believe that I've honored him and fulfilled my promise by doing what I could.</s>CANDIOTTI: I look at his picture over your shoulder.</s>KELLY: Where it usually was, if that makes sense. He was a classic big brother, and today I feel as if, hopefully, he's proud.</s>CANDIOTTI: Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.</s>COSTELLO: Oh, that's really sad.</s>ROMANS: Yes. And you know there's secrets about that bombing that died with Moammar Gadhafi, too. I mean, that's the other thing. There are things we may never know about that bombing and exactly --</s>COSTELLO: The man who planted the bomb onboard that plane is still alive and maybe can still give answers because he has no more excuses. Moammar Gadhafi is dead. There is no more protection. So maybe he'll speak out who exactly ordered the downing of that plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.</s>ROMANS: We'll see.</s>COSTELLO: Still to come this morning, what Gadhafi's death means for the United States and Libya's relations. And what will it take to build democracy from the ruins of a four decade old dictatorship?</s>ROMANS: And the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray winding down. The big question, what's next for the defense? And a first for the first lady, or any first lady, thanking military families in 140 characters or less. You're watching AMERICAN MORNING. It's 11 minutes past.