Colonel Gaddafi is dead.
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Colonel Gaddafi is dead.
Widely reported across all the media. Its all over, for the military at least.
Well done to all involved. Lets hope the recovery plot isn't too painful.
Well done to all involved. Lets hope the recovery plot isn't too painful.
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Samxxv,
Stop by the Al Jazeera website (I went via Guido Fawkes' "order-order"). The video* there, whilst distasteful and gruesome, looks fairly convincing to me.
*Graphic content. No link so as not to inadvertently offend anyone.
Stop by the Al Jazeera website (I went via Guido Fawkes' "order-order"). The video* there, whilst distasteful and gruesome, looks fairly convincing to me.
*Graphic content. No link so as not to inadvertently offend anyone.
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Originally Posted by Sren
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Its all over, for the military at least.
hummmmmmm!! We will see
Its all over, for the military at least.
hummmmmmm!! We will see
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Sadly BOAC I believe you are right. Gaddafi was a total sh*t but sometimes the sh*t you know is better than the stuff you don't.
Time to get out of Afghanistan as well...but I thread creep.
Time to get out of Afghanistan as well...but I thread creep.
From Reuters:
But no doubt you conspiracy theorists will have him playing golf with Elvis, JFK and Lord Lucan....
Muammar Gaddafi is dead, Libya's new leaders said, killed by fighters who overran his hometown and final bastion on Thursday. His bloodied body was stripped and displayed around the world from cellphone video.
Senior officials in the interim government, which ended his 42-year rule two months ago but had labored to subdue thousands of diehard loyalists, said his death opened the way for a declaration of "liberation" after eight months of war.
His body was expected in the long-standing rebel stronghold of Misrata, officials said as their Western sponsors held off from confirming that Gaddafi, a self-styled king of kings whom they had lately courted after decades of enmity, was dead at 69.
After Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed his demise, the new national flag, resurrected by rebels who forced Gaddafi from his capital Tripoli in August, filled streets and squares as jubilant crowds whooped for joy and fired in the air.
In Sirte, a one-time fishing village and Gaddafi's hometown that grandiose schemes had styled a new "capital of Africa," fighters danced, brandishing a golden pistol they said they had taken from Gaddafi.
Accounts were hazy of his final hours, which also appeared to have cost the lives of senior aides. But top officials of the National Transitional Council, including Abdel Majid Mlegta, said he had died of wounds sustained in clashes.
FINAL HOURS
One possible description, pieced together from various sources, suggests that Gaddafi may have tried to break out of his final redoubt at dawn in a convoy of vehicles after weeks of dogged resistance. However, he was stopped by a NATO airstrike and captured, possibly three or four hours later, after gunbattles with NTC fighters who found him hiding in a drainage culvert.
NATO said its warplanes fired on a convoy near Sirte about 8:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EDT), striking two military vehicles in the group, but could not confirm that Gaddafi had been a passenger.
Accounts from his enemies suggested his capture, and death soon after from wounds, may have taken place around noon.
One of Gaddafi's sons, heir-apparent Saif al-Islam, was at large, they believed.
NTC official Mlegta told Reuters that Gaddafi had been wounded in both legs early in the morning as he tried to flee in the convoy which NATO warplanes attacked "He was also hit in his head," he said. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."
There was no shortage of NTC fighters in Sirte claiming to have seen him die, though many accounts were conflicting. Libyan television carried video of two drainage pipes, about a meter across, where it said fighters had cornered a man who long inspired both fear and admiration around the world.
After February's uprising in the long discontented east of the country around Benghazi -- inspired by the Arab Spring movements that overthrew the leaders of neighboring Tunisia and Egypt -- the revolt against Gaddafi ground slowly across the country before a dramatic turn saw Tripoli fall in August.
LIBERATION
An announcement of final liberation was expected as the chairman of the NTC prepared to address the nation of six million. They now face the challenge of turning oil wealth once monopolized by Gaddafi and his clan into a democracy that can heal an array of tribal, ethnic and regional divisions he exploited.
The two months since the fall of Tripoli have tested the nerves of the motley alliance of anti-Gaddafi forces and their Western and Arab backers, who had begun to question the ability of the NTC forces to root out diehard Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte and a couple of other towns.
Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was toppled by rebel forces on August 23, a week short of the 42nd anniversary of the military coup which brought him to power in 1969.
NTC fighters hoisted the red, black and green national flag above a large utilities building in the center of a newly-captured Sirte neighborhood and celebratory gunfire broke out among their ecstatic and relieved comrades.
Hundreds of NTC troops had surrounded the Mediterranean coastal town for weeks in a chaotic struggle that killed and wounded scores of the besieging forces and an unknown number of defenders.
NTC fighters said there were a large number of corpses inside the last redoubts of the Gaddafi troops. It was not immediately possible to verify that information.
(Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by David Stamp)
Senior officials in the interim government, which ended his 42-year rule two months ago but had labored to subdue thousands of diehard loyalists, said his death opened the way for a declaration of "liberation" after eight months of war.
His body was expected in the long-standing rebel stronghold of Misrata, officials said as their Western sponsors held off from confirming that Gaddafi, a self-styled king of kings whom they had lately courted after decades of enmity, was dead at 69.
After Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed his demise, the new national flag, resurrected by rebels who forced Gaddafi from his capital Tripoli in August, filled streets and squares as jubilant crowds whooped for joy and fired in the air.
In Sirte, a one-time fishing village and Gaddafi's hometown that grandiose schemes had styled a new "capital of Africa," fighters danced, brandishing a golden pistol they said they had taken from Gaddafi.
Accounts were hazy of his final hours, which also appeared to have cost the lives of senior aides. But top officials of the National Transitional Council, including Abdel Majid Mlegta, said he had died of wounds sustained in clashes.
FINAL HOURS
One possible description, pieced together from various sources, suggests that Gaddafi may have tried to break out of his final redoubt at dawn in a convoy of vehicles after weeks of dogged resistance. However, he was stopped by a NATO airstrike and captured, possibly three or four hours later, after gunbattles with NTC fighters who found him hiding in a drainage culvert.
NATO said its warplanes fired on a convoy near Sirte about 8:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EDT), striking two military vehicles in the group, but could not confirm that Gaddafi had been a passenger.
Accounts from his enemies suggested his capture, and death soon after from wounds, may have taken place around noon.
One of Gaddafi's sons, heir-apparent Saif al-Islam, was at large, they believed.
NTC official Mlegta told Reuters that Gaddafi had been wounded in both legs early in the morning as he tried to flee in the convoy which NATO warplanes attacked "He was also hit in his head," he said. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."
There was no shortage of NTC fighters in Sirte claiming to have seen him die, though many accounts were conflicting. Libyan television carried video of two drainage pipes, about a meter across, where it said fighters had cornered a man who long inspired both fear and admiration around the world.
After February's uprising in the long discontented east of the country around Benghazi -- inspired by the Arab Spring movements that overthrew the leaders of neighboring Tunisia and Egypt -- the revolt against Gaddafi ground slowly across the country before a dramatic turn saw Tripoli fall in August.
LIBERATION
An announcement of final liberation was expected as the chairman of the NTC prepared to address the nation of six million. They now face the challenge of turning oil wealth once monopolized by Gaddafi and his clan into a democracy that can heal an array of tribal, ethnic and regional divisions he exploited.
The two months since the fall of Tripoli have tested the nerves of the motley alliance of anti-Gaddafi forces and their Western and Arab backers, who had begun to question the ability of the NTC forces to root out diehard Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte and a couple of other towns.
Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was toppled by rebel forces on August 23, a week short of the 42nd anniversary of the military coup which brought him to power in 1969.
NTC fighters hoisted the red, black and green national flag above a large utilities building in the center of a newly-captured Sirte neighborhood and celebratory gunfire broke out among their ecstatic and relieved comrades.
Hundreds of NTC troops had surrounded the Mediterranean coastal town for weeks in a chaotic struggle that killed and wounded scores of the besieging forces and an unknown number of defenders.
NTC fighters said there were a large number of corpses inside the last redoubts of the Gaddafi troops. It was not immediately possible to verify that information.
(Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by David Stamp)
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He certainly isn't dead. Let's wait for an Internationally certified DNA test (NOT CIA/British) on the provided remains. Guaranteed that his family/tribe have provided a murdered "lookalike" so that he can flee.
He can't hide for long though in this technological age. The financial footprint will discover enormous withdrawls - but not find the individual. Mossad will do that & finish the matter.
He can't hide for long though in this technological age. The financial footprint will discover enormous withdrawls - but not find the individual. Mossad will do that & finish the matter.
From Associated Press
French defense chief says a French fighter jet fired on the convoy carrying Moammar Gadhafi.
The Associated Press: LIBYA LIVE: Piecing together the day Gadhafi died
TJ
French defense chief says a French fighter jet fired on the convoy carrying Moammar Gadhafi.
The Associated Press: LIBYA LIVE: Piecing together the day Gadhafi died
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Of course, the death of Saddam led to peace and goodwill t'wards all men in Iraq. Or did it?
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Here's hoping that Libya sorts itself out in good time with no ethnic/religious massacres to come. Here's hoping...
Duncs
Here's hoping that Libya sorts itself out in good time with no ethnic/religious massacres to come. Here's hoping...
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Ahh.... from a man being courted by UK Governments to a cortege and denouncement by the UK Government, such is the fickle manner of UK politics....
As for the way he died, well, one reaps what one sows and his hands were never clean, rather an apt way to go really.... hopefully he suffered as did his victims.............. Suprised a funeral is on the cards which could possibly make a focus for "pilgrimages" by those that supported him, a short sharp trip out to sea to join Bin Laden would seem a better fate...
As for the way he died, well, one reaps what one sows and his hands were never clean, rather an apt way to go really.... hopefully he suffered as did his victims.............. Suprised a funeral is on the cards which could possibly make a focus for "pilgrimages" by those that supported him, a short sharp trip out to sea to join Bin Laden would seem a better fate...
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For the people of Libya and the rest of us today can only be a celebration. I hope his sons meet the same fate asap.
I'm really looking forward to seeing similar pictures of the Iranian leadership.
it will come! can't wait.
I'm really looking forward to seeing similar pictures of the Iranian leadership.
it will come! can't wait.
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Re his sons, it might be nice to see them dead but I reckon the two worst one's need to squirm in a full public court and be tried - before being executed.
I just hope some of the other "senior" leadership is caught and tried.
Hopefully Libya quietens down now and they all get back to building the country.
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Re his sons, it might be nice to see them dead but I reckon the two worst one's need to squirm in a full public court and be tried - before being executed.
I just hope some of the other "senior" leadership is caught and tried.
Hopefully Libya quietens down now and they all get back to building the country.
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