Libyan leader's son Saif al-Arab killed in NATO strike

[Casino67]

Reuters.com:

(Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO airstrike on Saturday night that killed his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three of his grandchildren, a Libyan government spokesman said.
Mussa Ibrahim said Saif al-Arab was a civilian and a student who had studied in Germany. He was 29 years old.

Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least three missiles. The roof had completely caved in in some areas, leaving strings of reinforcing steel hanging down among chunks of concrete.

A table football machine stood outside in the garden of the house, which was in a wealthy residential area of Tripoli.

(Reporting by Lin Noueihed; Editing by Matthew Jones)

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[clearvision]

This is turning into quite a mess.

[SrWoodchuck]

This is turning into quite a mess.

Spilling innocent blood is bad juju.

 

In the Arab [and ancient Roman] way of thinking....you must kill the son's to prevent them from ever gaining a chance for vengeance.

 

It's still murder in the eyes of any civilized society, and to most people who consider themselves Christian. It is not legitimate defense, or acting to stop the slaughter of foreign nationals.

 

Where is the progressive hue & cry for this injustice? All I hear is cricket's.

 

The blood of those children are on Obama's head [along with others,] although I doubt he gives a rat's patoot.

[Argyle58]

This is a bad precedent. Attacking a foreign head of state who is engaged in a civil war. Were he engaged in a war of aggression against another country, maybe, or if he had committed a crime against our own country, okay. But this is just wrong, by any Christian standard that you can apply.

 

Reagan did it in 1986, but this was in response to repeated attacks by Gaddaffi's attacks against U.S. aircraft and naval vessels, and the personal ordering of terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens and installations abroad. In that case the action was morally justified.

 

This is the second attack on al-Qaddafi's private compound in 5 days, and one of 5 in the past month. Where is the outrage?

[Pepper]

Argyle

SrWoodChuck

Casino

Big Fail to see Graham's face and McCain's face on the news opining about this. McCain added that US had to step in because GB and French assets were being depleted.

[Argyle58]

Argyle

SrWoodChuck

Casino

Big Fail to see Graham's face and McCain's face on the news opining about this. McCain added that US had to step in because GB and French assets were being depleted.

 

To follow GB and France in this makes it no less immoral. It is still the blood of innocents that has been spilled. No one in the U.S. asked any nation to attack the innocent members of Saddam's families.....only those who were involved in the sadistic day to day operation of his regime.

 

"Terrorizing women and children in the dead of night...."

 

I suppose this is somehow all Bush's fault.