Gaddafi captured / dead???

Ulysses31

Ulysses31

Muammar Gaddafi 'killed' in gun battle

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/10/20111020111520869621.html

A senior NTC official has said that Muammar Gaddafi has died of his wounds after being captured near Sirte.

Another NTC commander said that Moussa Ibrahim, former spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi's fallen government, was also captured near the Sirte.

Abdul Hakim Al Jalil, commander of the 11th brigade, also said he had seen the body of the chief of Gaddafi's armed forces, Abu Bakr Younus Jabr.

"I've seen him with my own eyes," he said and showed Reuters a picture of Jabr's body.

"Moussa Ibrahim was also captured and both of them were transferred to (our) operations room."

Earlier, Jamal abu-Shaalah, a field commander of NTC, told Al Jazeera that the toppled leader had been seized, but it was not clear whether he was dead or alive.

"He's captured. He's wounded in both legs ... He's been taken away by ambulance," Abdel Majid, a senior NTC military official said.

The news came shortly after NTC claimed capturing Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown, after weeks of fighting.

NATO and the US state department said it cannot confirm the reports of Gaddafi's death. Meanwhile in Benghazi, crowds gathered in the streets to start celebrating the reports of Gaddafi's death.
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Ulysses31

Ulysses31

busenbust said:
yep, a la Saddam. makes me sick too -- maybe good for a pop in US futures !!:rolleyes:
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I feel this is diffenrent from Saddam as there was a lot of anti-Gaddafi resentment in Libya long before the west got involved unlike in Iraq, Gaddafi had plenty of time to use his vast resources into turning Libya into a modernised country or even building up a tourists' paradise as well as spreading the wealth around to make all Libyans live in more comfort, instead he lavished all the money on himself or spending it on terror inc the IRA, I thought he was a colourful character but he had the chance to change when the uprisings started yet he brutally crushed the voice of his own people and it was his own people that took him down in the end.
 
emceeemcee

emceeemcee

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Ulysses31 said:
...and it was his own people that took him down in the end.
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It was a small segment of the population from just a few cities. We shouldn't have an illusions about what the NTC want and who they represent. They are basically no more than a rival clan from the east who have never got over being kicked out of power and just want to take revenge. The last time they were in power the country was in even more of a mess than when nutter Gadaffi was running show. Their ranks are comprised of Islamists and they've gone about freeing their AQ comrades from the jails that Gaddafi put them in. Stockpiles of weapons have been proliferated to neighboring countries and allegedly into the hands of AQ.


There are over 2000 other tribes in Libya who are vehemently opposed to the NTC, see them as a western puppet and have vowed to fight them to the death.


And it looks like the same gameplan is being hatched for Syria:


Baku: A senior Libyan official says the country’s transitional government has formally recognized the Syrian opposition’s council as the country’s legitimate representative, making it the first country to do so, APA reports quoting AP.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20111020&articleId=27190
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Z

zdenka

50 years ago, there were 25 communist countries. and 12 dictatorships
10 years ago, there were 5 communist countries and 8 dictatorships
Today, only 3 communist and 3 dictatorship
Looks like a trend :D
 
emceeemcee

emceeemcee

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zdenka said:
50 years ago, there were 25 communist countries. and 12 dictatorships
10 years ago, there were 5 communist countries and 8 dictatorships
Today, only 3 communist and 3 dictatorship
Looks like a trend :D
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your optimism is a tad misplaced seeing as this dictatorship just got replaced with another one
 
L

LukeEl

I am a failure to the Korean side of my family
These things happen, the Rebel Alliance wins again.
 
Ulysses31

Ulysses31

Shame on the rebels if he was executed after being captured, he should have stood trial and been convicted in a court of law which is the way Libya should be heading, starting a new regime through cold blooded executions doesn't suggest the 'rebels' are going to make Libya any more civilised or democratic.




Gaddafi's grisly end: Rebels parade body of Libyan dictator after he is cornered in a concrete pipe begging for his life

* Libyan prime minister confirms that former dictator is dead
* Gaddafi tried to flee in a convoy hit by American drone
* Vehicles were also shelled by Nato fighter jets...
* ... before being driven back to his compound in Sirte
* Gaddafi in final attempt to flee before final push by rebels
* 'Found in a hole' wearing military-style clothing, shouting 'Don't shoot'
* Rebel forces executed him in front of a baying mob
* His body was paraded through the streets of the city

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ator-captured-killed-Sirte.html#ixzz1bLComq00


Headshot: The body of former Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi lies in an ambulance as it is brought to hospital in Misrata, a bullet hole visible in his temple


Hiding hole: A fighter points to the concrete pipe where Gaddafi was reportedly found. Arabic graffiti in blue reads: 'This is the place of Gaddafi, the rat. God is the greatest'






THE RISE OF A TYRANT

Gaddafi was born in 1942, the son of a Bedouin herdsman, in a tent near Sirte on the Mediterranean coast. He abandoned a geography course at university for a military career that included a short spell at a British army signals school.

He took power in a bloodless military coup in 1969 when he toppled King Idriss, and in the 1970s he formulated his 'Third Universal Theory', a middle road between communism and capitalism, as laid out in his Green Book.

He oversaw the rapid development of Libya, which was previously known for little more than oil wells and deserts where huge tank battles took place in World War Two. The economy is now paying the price of war and sanctions.

One of his first tasks on taking power was to build up the armed forces, but he also spent billions of dollars of oil income on improving living standards, making him popular with the low-paid.

Gaddafi poured money into giant projects such as a steel plant in the town of Misrata - the scene of bitter fighting - and the Great Man-Made River, a scheme to pipe water from desert wells to coastal communities.

Gaddafi embraced the pan-Arabism of the late Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and tried without success to merge Libya, Egypt and Syria into a federation. A similar attempt to join Libya and Tunisia ended in acrimony.

In 1977 he changed the country's name to the Great Socialist Popular Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah (State of the Masses).

For much of his rule he was shunned by the West, which accused him of links to terrorism and revolutionary movements. He was particularly reviled after the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing over Lockerbie, by Libyan agents in which 270 people were killed.
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Synonymous with terrorism: A young Gaddafi, right, is seen in an undated photo with notorious Ugandan leader Idi Amin


Shunned by the West: Links to revolutionaries , such as Cuba's Fidel Castro, made Gaddafi many enemies around the world
 
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