French warplanes identified and "stopped" a convoy of vehicles carrying Moamer Gaddafi before he was killed in clashes in Libya, French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said Thursday. The convoy of several dozen vehicles "was stopped from progressing as it sought to flee Sirte but was not destroyed by the French intervention," Longuet told journalists. Libyan fighters then intervened, destroying the vehicles, from which "they took out Colonel Gaddafi," he added.