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How will Gadaffi Die?

How Will Gadaffi Die?

  • Suicide in the bunker, ala Hitler

    Votes: 6 14.3%

  • Strung up from a lamp post, ala Mussilini

    Votes: 11 26.2%

  • Shot in a gun fight, ala Saddam's kids

    Votes: 10 23.8%

  • Tried and executed, ala Sadam

    Votes: 6 14.3%

  • Flees to South America, hunted down and killed ala Trosky

    Votes: 3 7.1%

  • Of old age on Planet X

    Votes: 6 14.3%
  • Total voters
    42

Alferd_Packer

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That Gadaffi's time is limited, the only question will be, What wil be his fate?

Damn, forgot to add one.

Killed by a "trusted" advisor or relative, ala many kings of the past.
 
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If he flees why would he go to south America? Isn't he more friendly with some of his Muslim friends? After being deposed Idi amin fled to Saudi Arabia where he died. Couldn't Qaddafi do the same?

Personally i hope someone close to him blows his brains out.
 
Arcade22 said:
If he flees why would he go to south America? Isn't he more friendly with some of his Muslim friends? After being deposed Idi amin fled to Saudi Arabia where he died. Couldn't Qaddafi do the same?

Personally i hope someone close to him blows his brains out.
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He is also friends with Hugo Chavez, but I doubt that Chavez will welcom him that warmly.

He is also afraid of flying long distances over water, but he may have no choice.
 
timhau said:
That would have been my vote. They can't all not notice that his speeches are getting more and more delusional.
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I don't think its an issue of someone noticing that he is getting more delusional. anyone that close to him would know he's nuts already.

It would more likely be someone who is hoping to sieze control of the situation and set himself up as the new leader. However, I see this possiblilty dwindling as the extent of the unrest spreads.
 
Arcade22 said:
If he flees why would he go to south America? Isn't he more friendly with some of his Muslim friends? After being deposed Idi amin fled to Saudi Arabia where he died. Couldn't Qaddafi do the same?
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Who? The Saudi's won't touch him for fear of inciting their own people against the Saudi rulers.

He's aleinated most of the Arab world, and the few African nations that might accept him are not all that stable themselves.
 
Alferd_Packer said:
I don't think its an issue of someone noticing that he is getting more delusional. anyone that close to him would know he's nuts already.

It would more likely be someone who is hoping to sieze control of the situation and set himself up as the new leader. However, I see this possiblilty dwindling as the extent of the unrest spreads.
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The other choice -- and the one I'd be more likely to bet on -- is that things are quickly going towards the point where someone or a group of someones near Ghaddafi are going to calculate that they're more likely to survive by aligning themselves with the uprising, shooting the Colonel and taking their chances with remaining loyalists (if any) than fighting along with him. Ghaddafi ordered his goons to play dirty, so he and his buddies cannot expect to be treated well once the revolutionaries get hold of them.
 
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On a toilet, like Elvis...

Look at the guy. He's gotta be on a whole pharmacy of medications and will take more as this stuff gets worse. I'm betting a combination of those and the stress will kill him before the fighting reaches his door.
 
This point of view is worth considering.

http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2...showComment=1298557993220#c240775538407479298

Fullinquiry said:
Gadaffi (spelling is phonetic so doesn't matter) should be thought of as semi-retired, he doesn't run the Government's day to day business, those who assisted him in the 1969 bloodless coup and others do run the show. These same people are now negotiating with the UN Security Council (USA and Britain) and suggesting a coup whereby Gadaffi is removed and the same old people continue to run the show.

Blame / sacrifice Gadaffi and continue on with the same people in charge with UN support.

This is seriously being considered now by the western powers that be. In my view the west will like this option because it will be viewed as the route to short term stability. Oil prices could be kept down and stock market instability could be reduced.
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Rolfe.
 
Good question. I don't have any insight on this whatsoever.

Retiring at the beginning of this mess would have been the choice of a sane man. Let who's in charge deal with this thing. That might have been his best chance to die of old age. But then Gadafi doesn't seem like he exactly fits into the sane man category right now.

The powers that be, that are running the country right now would probably like to mount a bloody response to the rebellion, let Gadafi take the blame and they get to keep their jobs. If it doesn't go well they have some plausible deniability (Gadafi made me do it). But Gadafi may be too obviously crazy for much plausible deniability for them which puts them in a tough spot. However this goes there are some possible scenarios whereby Gadafi survives to die of natural causes.

But I imagine that death by natural causes is a long shot and fleeing the country looks pretty unlikely to planet X or elsewhere also, so I had to pick between suicide, execution and being shot. Being shot covers inside job, sniper and armed rebellion so overall I think that possibility gives the best odds because it gives good coverage for the likely outcomes. Note I'm also taking credit if he's killed in anyway except by execution for a right answer here.
 
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I think he died years ago, and what we see now is his reanimated corpse come to feed on the flesh of the living.
 
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