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A gruesome new video has surfaced online, which shows Libyan rebels using former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's corpse as a ventriloquist's doll. The shocking clip, which was posted to YouTube on Monday, showed how high-spirited demonstrators abused Gaddafi's dead body. According to the Daily Mail, the footage came to light after a Syrian activist linked to it on Twitter, aiming a threat at Syria 's President Bashar al-Assad. The minute-long video, whose authenticity cannot be independently verified, seems to have been filmed on October 20 last year, the day Gaddafi was captured and killed by rebel forces. The clip, which was subsequently featured on the Huffington Post, shows the corpse lying topless and covered in blood. According to the paper, one rebel grabs its head and manipulates it while talking in Arabic, apparently mocking the dead leader. After the video was posted online, Syrian anti-government protestor Sami Al Hamwi wrote about it on Twitter, adding, 'someone needs to send this to Assad.'

Gruesome video shows Gaddafi's body being used as 'ventriloquist's doll' by rebels