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Merged Gadaffi captured or killed.

Matthew Best said:
Warning: graphic image.

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He does look a trifle unwell.

Edit: According to the Guardian today seems to have been very productive for the rebe - er - transitional government:


  • Muammar Gaddafi - Killed
  • Abu Bakr Yunis, former defence minister - Killed
  • Mutassim Gaddafi, Muammar's son - Captured
  • Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi's spokesman - Captured
  • Abd Allah al-Sanusi, senior Libyan intelligence chief - Captured
  • Ahmed Ibrahim, Gaddafi's cousin and adviser - Captured
  • Mansour Daw, Gaddafi aide - Captured
  • Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Gaddafi's most high-profile son - Somewhere in the southern Libyan desert and who can blame him.

So is that it all over bar the shouting? It would be nice to think so.
 
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Oooh! I might win my bet. An Italian friend of mine bet me that Gadaffi would never be found!

I told him that of course I would take that bet because I can't lose.
 
Pacal said:
I would have preferred a trial.
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Well he did have a date booked with the world court. However he always stated he would go down fighting, and it seems thats exactly what happened.
 
MG1962 said:
Well he did have a date booked with the world court. However he always stated he would go down fighting, and it seems thats exactly what happened.
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This is one of those instances where I can't really drum up any enthusiasm for the thought that it would have been better for Libya and the world if he had stood trial.
 
little grey rabbit said:
If they really have captured him we should see pictures confirmation of it soon - as this would be a major blow to morale of any resistance. Alternatively it could be just more in the propaganda war.

Or, and putting on my tin foil hat, Gaddafi has agreed to disappear permanently to allow the NTC a clear run at things. In which case he will shortly expire of his wounds and won't turn up in any courts anywhere.

Either way it is sad. He brought a lot of colour to the international scene. Accusing the US of assassinating Kennedy at the UN was delightful and he handled the Lockerbie debacle superbly.

He deserved a better end.
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He better be glad he didn't get some of what he gave out. Dying in combat is way better than being hung which iswhat this terrorist deserved.
 
Actually, I can. Why would it not have been better for him to stand trial?

He would have gone on trial for... well, I am not sure exactly what he would have gone on trial for or who would have prosecuted him...

What do you suggest?

[I should point out that I don't like Gadaffi at all but I am not sure what he would have gone on trial for or who would have prosecuted.]
 
Cainkane1 said:
He better be glad he didn't get some of what he gave out. Dying in combat is way better than being hung which iswhat this terrorist deserved.
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I could be wrong, but from the sound of his injuries it wasn't so much combat he died in as having a hail of gunfire sent down the drain he was hiding in.
 
I always figured this day would come.

So what happens next? Will the rebels install their own crazed dictator? I really wonder what will happen with Libya now?
 
Moon-Spinner said:
I always figured this day would come.

So what happens next? Will the rebels install their own crazed dictator? I really wonder what will happen with Libya now?
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Not according to what they have stated. They've (NTC) said they would resign and that there would be a "national congress" within a specific time period (can't recall it off the top of my head) and that there would be multi-party elections in 2013.
 
This day will go down in history as the day that Hamid Karzai became the man with the world's most outrageous fashion sense.

Where Muammar's wife and daughters at BTW?
Pouring boiling water over the maitre 'di at the Geneva Hilton?
 
Moon-Spinner said:
I always figured this day would come.

So what happens next? Will the rebels install their own crazed dictator? I really wonder what will happen with Libya now?
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Libya's oil revenues pose a great danger to it's future. Control the oil and you have plenty of money to pay the security force needed to secure power for a dictator.

The good news is that the people of Libya now know it's possible to overthrow an entrenched dictator.
 
Moon-Spinner said:
I always figured this day would come.

So what happens next? Will the rebels install their own crazed dictator? I really wonder what will happen with Libya now?
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My thoughts exactly. With oil revenues flowing in (I'm guessing), it will be interesting to see how it will be distributed, if at all.
 
angrysoba said:
Actually, I can. Why would it not have been better for him to stand trial?

He would have gone on trial for... well, I am not sure exactly what he would have gone on trial for or who would have prosecuted him...

What do you suggest?

[I should point out that I don't like Gadaffi at all but I am not sure what he would have gone on trial for or who would have prosecuted.]
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I think many of the Libyans consider that he was an unwanted dictator who breached the rights they believe they should have, such as the right not to rounded up in the middle of the night and shot without trial and things like that, add in the usual corruption and there is plenty for the Libyans to choose from!
 
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MG1962 said:
Well he did have a date booked with the world court. However he always stated he would go down fighting, and it seems thats exactly what happened.
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However, that court won't sentence anyone to death. And even an imprisoned Gadaffi would be a threat against Libya. And the trial against Saddam left a lingering taste of show trial (and that they couldn't even pull of dignified and technically flawless execution of him gave Iraq even more problems with its legitimacy).

So that he's dead is probably the best for everyone.
 
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