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| UPDATE -- Video: Gaddafi Was Captured Alive |
| 2011-10-20 |
| Warning -- Graphic Muammar Gaddafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42-years of one-man rule "rats," but in the end it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of rubbish and filth... "One of Gaddafi's men came out waving his rifle in the air and shouting surrender, but as soon as he saw my face he started shooting at me," he told Reuters. "Then I think Gaddafi must have told them to stop. 'My master is here, my master is here', he said, 'Muammar Gaddafi is here and he is wounded'," said Bakeer. "We went in and brought Gaddafi out. He was saying 'what's wrong? What's wrong? What's going on?'. Then we took him and put him in the car," Bakeer said. At the time of capture, Gaddafi was already wounded with gunshots to his leg and to his back, Bakeer said. Other government fighters who said they took part in Gaddafi's capture, separately confirmed Bakeer's version of events, though one said the man who ruled Libya for 42 years was shot and wounded at the last minute by one of his own men. "One of Muammar Gaddafi's guards shot him in the chest," said Omran Jouma Shawan. Army chief Jabr was also captured alive, Bakeer said. NTC officials later announced he was dead. The stress of being captured was probably too much for him, poor fellow. Yet another case of acute, fulminant cirrhosis... Fallen electricity cables partially covered the entrance to the pipes and the bodies of three men, apparently Gaddafi bodyguards lay at the entrance to one end, one in shorts probably due to a bandaged wound on his leg. Four more bodies lay at the other end of the pipes. All black men, one had his brains blown out, another man had been decapitated, his dreadlocked head lying beside his torso. Joyous government fighters fired their weapons in the air, shouted "Allahu Akbar" and posed for pictures. Others wrote graffiti on the concrete parapets of the highway. "Gaddafi was captured here," said one simply. From there Gaddafi was taken to the nearby city of Sirte where he and his dwindling band of die-hard supporters had made a last stand under a rain of missile and artillery fire in a desperate two-month siege. Video footage showed Gaddafi, dazed and wounded, but still clearly alive and gesturing with his hands as he was dragged from a pick-up truck by a crowd of angry jostling group of government soldiers who hit him and pulled his hair. He then appeared to fall to the ground and was enveloped by the crowd. NTC officials later announced Gaddafi had died of his wounds after capture. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #6 Given the penchant of modern + post-modern leaders to employ both natural or surgically-altered, highly trained lookalikes, the best confirmation remains independent scientific + DNA analysis + autopsy. Pragmatically, presum that Uncle Muammar is gone, whom is the US-WEST/ALLIED going to use as offset iff Radical Islam takes over Libyuh's Govt legally electorally, + RESUMES LIBYA'S NUKE-WMDS PROGS??? IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > WITH GADDAFI GONE, WHO WILL REPLACE THE DEVIL WE KNEW? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-10-20 22:25 |
| #5 Obviously he was killed in the crossfire like the Interim PM continues to claim, nothing to do with the bullet hole in his forehead. Move along. |
| Posted by: Charles 2011-10-20 19:36 |
| #4 I'm-A-Dinner-Jacket, you're next! |
| Posted by: Creregum Glolump8403 2011-10-20 19:21 |
| #3 Daniel Pipes on Gaddafi: Qaddafi kicked off what was then known as the Islamic revival and also still continues. At a time when no one else was ready to do so, he proudly and provocatively advanced Islamic causes by applying aspects of Islamic law, calling on Muslims worldwide to do likewise, and assisting any Muslims in conflict with non-Muslims. Gaddafi's objective had been a Sunni Arab Islamist empire with himself and later his family as dynastic rulers. Whatever happens in Libya and North Africa (I'm not optimistic), new hostile forces will now not be able to use Gaddafi's terror and WMD infrastructure. Gaddafi never surrendered all of his nuclear weapons material. He openly defied the US in Iraq by giving aid and comfort to Saddam. And by 2009 he was confident enough to openly threaten the West with terror attacks. If Gaddafi had survived then the entire Arab Spring would have been nothing but an anti Western rout. That development has been averted. |
| Posted by: Gomez Glurong9396 2011-10-20 19:18 |
| #2 Died of pronoun trouble. |
| Posted by: Choluse Graling8806 2011-10-20 17:37 |
| #1 Joyous government fighters fired their weapons in the air, shouted "Allahu Akbar" and posed for pictures. If a single Sunni Arab Islamist empire arises along the Mediterranean, we'll know who to credit - the Three Stooges - Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-10-20 17:28 |