Ex-SR Staffer Saw Gadhafi’s Body

Holly Pickett takes pictures in the Gaza strip in January of 2009. The Butte native has been a photojournalist in the Middle East for the past three years based in Cairo, Egypt. (Ben Curtis AP Photo)

A Butte woman may have been the first Westerner to see former Libya dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s dead body.  Photojournalist Holly Pickett raced to the ambulance carrying his bullet-riddled body Thursday.  “I was a little afraid that this would turn into another undocumented rumor. That’s why I chased the ambulance with Gaddafi’s body,” Pickett wrote on her Twitter page. Shortly after noon Thursday, Pickett was in a residential area behind a field hospital when an ambulance carrying Gadhafi’s body raced past her. “We chased,” she tweeted. “All I could think when I found out they had Gaddafi was, ‘I am the only journalist who knows what happened. I have to get a photo’”/ Kristen Inbody , Great Falls Tribune. More here.

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