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Unconfirmed reports this morning are stating that Libya’s terrorist dictator, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed as the Libyan revolution overtook his home town of Sirte.
Reports remain sketchy as Gaddafi was first reported wounded and captured, which was then changed to killed.
The claims of his capture initially included his having been found in a whole in the ground and “wounded in both legs” in the process of being taken.
Later, however, spokesmen changed the story to suggest that Gaddafi had been shot in the head, and that his body is being taken to a secret location.
It makes one wonder whether both are true (captured and dead) in the sense that someone did not want the country to go through a prolonged trial, with the counter-revolution it might cause to fester. Thus, captured turned into dead.
We’ll surely learn more in coming hours. Gaddafi’s immediate death would be the best outcome, capture second-best. What Libya does not need is for this story to be entirely untrue, something which would not be too surprising given the many other erroneous reports about Gaddafi earlier in the Libyan revolution.
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Dixie Pixie| 10.20.11 @ 12:12PM
The American Thinker has an article on Daffy's death with photos.
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http://www.americanthinker.com....._dead.html
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Nalliah Thayabharan| 10.23.11 @ 11:42PM
United Nations recognised Gaddafi as Libya's Head of State for several decades. Gaddafi also served as the President of the African Union. Several foreign dignitaries including British Prime Minister Tony Blair (in 2004) and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (in 2008) visited Gaddafi. Gaddafi also had warm handshakes with President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the G8 summit in Italy in 2009. Hence the US-led NATO military campaign, which was camouflaged as a mission to protect innocent Libyans, to oust that UN recognised Libyan leader Gaddafi and kill him in cold blood.
US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy should not be held accountable for war crimes in Libya since they knowingly and willfully participated, in a joint enterprise in Libya, which turned out to be criminal and provided financial, material and logistical assistance to the anti-Gaddafi forces while being aware of the consequences of their action. They were directly responsible for the NATO air strikes that killed a thousands of innocent Libyans.
-Nalliah Thayabharan
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