New gruesome video shows Gaddafi's body being used as 'ventriloquist's doll

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A gruesome new video showing slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's body being abused by rebels has surfaced on the internet.

In the shocking clip, which was posted to YouTube on Monday, high-spirited demonstrators apparently use the Libyan dictator's corpse as a ventriloquist's doll.

The footage came to light after a Syrian activist linked to it on Twitter, aiming a threat at Syria's leader Bashar Al Assad, The Daily Mail reported.

The little over one 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 troops.

It shows a confused scene of celebration as young men shout and cheer next to a van containing an apparently dead body which resembles the dictator. Its release comes less than two weeks after Libya's first democratic elections, which appear to have handed a victory to secular liberal forces.

Gaddafi ruled the Libya with an iron hand after wresting control from King Idris in a bloodless coup in 1969.