Gadaffi dead.

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OLDENGLANDDRY

Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:38 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15389550

NIKI2

Thursday, October 20, 2011 7:40 PM

So it's been verified, then? I left to sulky with the dogs when I first heard it.

If the reports are tru, how like a bully; to show no mercy when in power and then beg for mercy when captured! And/or to be hiding in a hole in the ground...who else did the same, I can't seem to remember...

I think the overthrow of Libya will have a more promising outcome that what is happening in Egypt. Maybe that speaks to the negatives of having the military on your side? I dunno, but these people have been working and planning for a long time, and from what I've seen, seem to be on the right track.

If we ever find out, it will be interesting to learn whether he died of injuries during transport, was shot and killed immediately, or whether some "action" was taken once he was in hand to make sure he didn't survive. Hope the whole (REAL) story comes out eventually.

If only it helped those poor people in Syria...and Yemen...but at least it's one more dictator down the drain. That's cause for celebration.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

AURAPTOR

Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:10 PM

Good.

I've not seen the videos , pics. I'm told they're fairly graphic.

Just one question...where's the Muslim's display of Muslim sensitivities and respect for the dead ?

He'll be properly buried, with in 24 hours, I'm expecting, right?

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

NIKI2

Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:48 PM

Finding more, tho' it's still unclear:

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Most accounts agreed Gaddafi had been holed up with heavily armed supporters in the last few buildings held by regime loyalists in his Mediterranean coastal hometown of Sirt, furiously battling advancing revolutionary fighters.

At one point, a convoy tried to flee and was hit by NATO airstrikes, carried out by French warplanes. France's Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said the 80-vehicle convoy was carrying Gaddafi and was trying to escape the city. The strikes stopped the convoy but did not destroy it, and then revolutionary fighters moved in on the vehicle carrying Gaddafi himself.

Fathi Bashaga, spokesman for the Misrata military council, whose forces were involved in the Sirt siege, said fighters encircled the convoy and exchanged fire with several of the vehicles. In one, they found Gaddafi, wounded in the neck, and took him to an ambulance. "What do you want?" Gaddafi said to the approaching revolutionaries, Bashaga said, citing witnesses.

Gaddafi bled to death from his wounds a half-hour later, he said.

Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, a doctor who was part of the medical team that accompanied the body in the ambulance and examined it, said Gaddafi died from two bullet wounds, to the head and chest. "You can't imagine my happiness today. I can't describe my happiness," he told The Associated Press. "The tyranny is gone. Now the Libyan people can rest."

Given his feelings, one has to wonder if Gaddafi bled to death, was helped to die, and/or if he was given treatment that would have saved him.

I don't blame them for feeling the way they do, and if they don't show "respect" for his body, I can hardly blame them!

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Gaddafi's body was then paraded through the streets of the nearby city of Misrata on top of a vehicle surrounded by a large crowd chanting, "The blood of the martyrs will not go in vain," according to footage aired on Al-Arabiya television. The fighters who killed Gaddafi are believed to have come from Misrata, a city that suffered a brutal weeks-long siege by Gaddafi's forces during the eight-month long civil war.

Celebratory gunfire and cries of "God is Great" rang out across the capital Tripoli. Cars honked their horns and people hugged each other. In Sirt, the ecstatic former rebels celebrated the city's fall after weeks of bloody siege by firing endless rounds into the sky, pumping their guns, knives and even a meat cleaver in the air and singing the national anthem.

There appear to be different versions, still, so I think it'll be a while before we know the whole story (if we ever do):

Quote:

One fighter who said he was at the battle told AP Television News that the final fight took place at an opulent compound for visiting dignitaries built by Gaddafi's regime. Adel Busamir said the convoy tried to break out but after being hit it turned back and re-entered the compound. Several hundred fighters assaulted. "We found him there," Busamir said. "We saw them beating him (Gaddafi) and someone shot him with a 9mm pistol ... then they took him away."

Military spokesman Col. Ahmed Bani in Tripoli told Al-Jazeera TV that a wounded Gaddafi "tried to resist (revolutionary forces) so they took him down."
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nitial reports from fighters said Gaddafi had been barricaded in with his heavily armed loyalists in the last few buildings they held in his Mediterranean coastal hometown of Sirt, furiously battling with revolutionary fighters closing in on them Thursday. At one point, a convoy tried to flee the area and was blasted by NATO airstrikes, though it was not clear if Gaddafi was in the vehicles. Details of his death remained unverified.
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Al-Jazeera TV showed footage of a man resembling Gaddafi lying dead or severely wounded, bleeding from the head and stripped to the waist as fighters rolled him over on the paveme

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RIONAEIRE

Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:49 PM

Looks like he's dead and gone and that the rebels shot him. We'll see what else happened as time goes by. I think this is a good thing for the people of Libya, they can all move on now.

I'm displeased with the Egyptian situation, that new government is mean and I don't like them from what I've seen on the news. One just never knows what will happen with these things.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

OLDENGLANDDRY

Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:56 PM

http://www.channel4.com/news/how-did-colonel-gaddafi-die

KWICKO

Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:27 PM

Reports are saying a NATO air strike got him, and he bled to death.

Looks like it's another win for US-backed assassination.

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:35 PM

Assassination is way more cost effective and eficient, plus it doesn't take up all those troops and if its done right its quick and one can cover one's tracks better than if one sends troops in. I wish that's what we would have done in Iraq, it would have been soooooo much easier, but hindsight is 20 20.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:46 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Good.

I've not seen the videos , pics. I'm told they're fairly graphic.

Just one question...where's the Muslim's display of Muslim sensitivities and respect for the dead ?

He'll be properly buried, with in 24 hours, I'm expecting, right?

Aren't they just 'folk' making invididual choices?

AURAPTOR

Friday, October 21, 2011 12:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Reports are saying a NATO air strike got him, and he bled to death.

Looks like it's another win for US-backed assassination.

Looked like he was bleedin' plenty, as his captors were walking him to his death.

( finally took a peek at the posted link, which wasn't all that clear, thankfully )

One report said 2 to the head, one to the chest. Looks like he was roughed up , by a mob, then executed.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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