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Gaddafi killed in Libya

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Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said.

His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen.

"He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head," National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."

Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi, who was in his late 60s, was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked. He said he had been taken away by an ambulance.

There was no independent confirmation of his remarks.

An anti-Gaddafi fighter said Gaddafi had been found hiding in a hole in the ground and had said "Don't shoot, don't shoot" to the men who grabbed him.

His capture followed within minutes of the fall of Sirte, a development that extinguished the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the deposed leader.

The capture of Sirte and the death of Gaddafi means Libya's ruling NTC should now begin the task of forging a new democratic system which it had said it would get under way after the city, built as a showpiece for Gaddafi's rule, had fallen.

Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was toppled by rebel forces on August 23 after 42 years of one-man rule over the oil-producing North African state.
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Hopefully a new democratic regime is actually implemented and all of the people that ran the government before are not allowed back into power once everything dies down.
 
Care said:
Hopefully a new democratic regime is actually implemented and all of the people that ran the government before are not allowed back into power once everything dies down.
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Yea a "new democratic regime" like Iraq or Israel 8( Say what you will about Qaddafi, but now that he's gone, the Western Powers who backed and aided the insurrection now have a pawn in gaining a sphere of influence in North Africa. The Iranians better take notice. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
 
He was a valuable player, but sometimes your worth becomes meaningless in a new scheme of things. He had been an ally of the west for quite sometime. Thanks for the laugh Care.
 
Pindar said:
Yea a "new democratic regime" like Iraq or Israel 8( Say what you will about Qaddafi, but now that he's gone, the Western Powers who backed and aided the insurrection now have a pawn in gaining a sphere of influence in North Africa. The Iranians better take notice. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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Too true.
 
Sic semper tyrannis.

Great news, but it remains to be seen what Libya will put together out of this. I can't be more than (very) cautiously optimistic, after events in Egypt...
 
Was he shot on sight? No faux trial, or even charge this time or anything

"DEMOCRACY!" "FREEDOM!" 8(

He was style icon at least, i liked the glasses
 
this isn't saying anything about the man, but i'd like to say that i think it's highly tragic that for in order to destroy a monster, a large group of people felt the need to become monsters.
 
The end of a horrible bloke and no doubt Libya will be all the better for it. Feel quite uncomfortable tho watching Cameron et al using words like 'triumphant' and 'joyous' while video of his body being dragged thru the streets is being shown. Just wrong
 
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And the very violence that secured 'their' victory will be the supplement-laxative used to digest and purge these revolutionaries, along with their ideals when we install our newest dictator. No westerner is going to second guess a ruler of Libya who "needs" to use violence to overcome the violent.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35_Ai6EsMU&feature=player_embedded

Interesting video to say the least. It's certainly a bit more plausible than the tired 'war for oil' argument. If middle eastern countries were threatening the sovereignty of the greenback, it could split the world into countries who value fiat currency, and countries who value precious metals. In volatile economic times such as these, that could be worth killing for.
 
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