(Reuters) – Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered in his capture near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, a senior NTC military official said.
National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked.
October 20, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Well, I hope for the sake of the Libyian people the new boss isn't the same as the old one! Scotju
October 20, 2011 at 4:06 pm
It seems like the USA is getting pretty good at removing vain, worldly tyrants who can be manipulated and bribed and replacing them with ultra-religious tyrants who can't be manipulated and bribed.
October 20, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Is he already dead in that picture? Just wondering.
October 20, 2011 at 6:41 pm
O is snuffing them rather than public trials as Law prescribes…
The American citizen that was taken out by a missile should have had due process.
I guess the up coming elections and all, O doesn't want something like due process getting in the way.
Even Bin Laden should have been captured and placed on trial, not executed by secret society lackeys in uniform…
If Bin Laden was put on trial he probably would have proven the conspiracy theorists right, as in the case of Anastacio Samoza, in his book 'Samoza on Samoza', just before a bazooka made a three foot crater where his vehicle used to be…
"Yes Virginia, there is a boogeyman, and he is standing right behind you."
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October 20, 2011 at 8:47 pm
I don't know, blackrep. We do a pretty darn good job of manipulating and bribing. It will be hard for them to resist. And if they do, there is always the drone option. One way or the other, our vital interests in every backwater country will be protected at any cost.
October 20, 2011 at 8:50 pm
How many hours was this after the Secretary of State's visit?
October 20, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Réquiem ætérnam dona ei Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat ei. Requiéscat in pace. Amen.
October 21, 2011 at 12:51 pm
May God have mercy on his soul. On the other hand, though: while he was fairly far down the list of "evil Mid-Eastern dictators", he was still on it. One prefers, in his case as in Saddam's (who was vastly more evil), that it had not come to that, but one also finds that "not being an evil dictator" smooths the path to retirement tremendously.