Libyan forces 'capture Gaddafi' (possibly killed)

[clearvision]

BBC:

The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Tripoli: "We've heard quite a lot of celebratory gunfire" (Still shoto shows NTC troops celebrating the capture of Sirte)

Commanders for Libya's transitional authorities say they have captured ousted leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.

The reports came after transitional forces claimed control of Sirte, Col Gaddafi's birthplace, following weeks of fierce fighting.

Some unconfirmed reports say Col Gaddafi has been wounded, others that he has been killed.

The colonel was toppled in August after 42 years in power. The International Criminal Court is seeking his arrest.

"He's captured. He's wounded in both legs," National Transitional Council (NTC) official Abdel Majid told Reuters news agency.

"He's been taken away by ambulance."

A soldier who says he captured Muammar Gaddafi told the BBC the colonel had shouted: "Don't shoot!"

But NTC official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters news agency that the former leader had been shot in the head and killed as he tried to flee.
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Other reports say he is dead.

[Pepper]

He's either dead or alive. Either way, we will be subject to ad nauseam coverage.

 

We will soon see pictures of Obama standing on the bodies of Qaddafi and Osama saying re elect me in 2012.

[Sabre86]

He's either dead or alive. Either way, we will be subject to ad nauseam coverage.

 

We will soon see pictures of Obama standing on the bodies of Qaddafi and Osama saying re elect me in 2012.

 

Already started.

 

All of the pundits and talking heads are now basically claiming that this ensures Obama cannot lose the election. Juan Williams on Fox this morning was at it before anything was even confirmed.

[Al_Simmons]

Well, we know he's dead now. Long overdue. The new regime will be Islamist, but Gaddafi deserved to die.

 

As far as the effect of the election, it will be ZIPPO. Just like Barry's job creation record.

 

Now if the GOP would just settle on a nominee and re-direct fire at the administration ...

[Pepper]

Al_Simmons!

 

"Now if the GOP would just settle on a nominee and re-direct fire at the administration ... "

 

I hear you, Al ! Bump to that.

[RandyM]

Al_Simmons and Pepper!

 

AMEN to that!

 

So far, the so-called 'debates' have revealed little to no substance... only a few personality traits. And we're to be subjected to many more.

[Saltbag]

0bama just started speaking .... waiting with bated breath for him to take credit for it.

[Valin]

Farewell To The Great Loon

Walter Russell Mead

10/20/11

 

Africa’s King of Kings, the Sword of Islam, the Guide of the People and the Great Loon of Libya is gone. The crowds kicked his lifeless body through the streets of his hometown. Those who trusted in him and who aided and abetted his crimes, are scattered to the four winds — the lucky ones. The others are dead or in jail. In the anarchy of the new Libya, the families of his allies are huddled in their homes, fearful that each day will bring revenge from those the Great Loon and his henchmen tortured, murdered and dispossessed.

 

History will not shed any tears over the Loon, and neither will I. He was an example of the worst type of ruler history sometimes throws up: an empowered, murderous, psychopathic clown. He was a sick joke; it is a measure of the moral and political degradation of “third worldism” that his fellow thugs like Robert Mugabe, Hugo Chavez and dictators and kleptocrats without number considered him a member of the club, ignored his flagrant sins, and prostituted the name of justice by hailing him as a progressive, revolutionary leader who was making our world a better place.

 

(Snip)

 

Sadly, he deserved the death he received — just as Saddam Hussein deserved the humiliation and mockery of his last moments on earth. Forty years of comfortable prison in the Hague would not have been just recompense for his crimes; for a man whose vanity and ambition turned a country into a concentration camp, death is a just sentence, however served.

 

(Snip)

 

There is one conclusion we ought to draw from the inglorious end of the Great Loon: the Bush agenda in the Middle East is alive and well. The United States is, as Bush and Cheney so forcefully announced, a revolutionary power in the Middle East no longer seeking to prop up the status quo at any cost. (The Saudi exemption still holds.) Regime change remains on the table; the military forces of the United States stand ready to take out thugs whose viciousness has become insupportable, or who align themselves against the vital interests of this country. We would prefer not to do this at all; if something must be done we would rather do it under the aegis of the UN, but we will do it with less prestigious blessings if we must. Where possible, we do it with allies, and we would rather support and promote from behind the scenes than to bear all the burdens and costs on our own, but when American presidents say that “all options are on the table”, they mean exactly what they say.