Libya's Gaddafi is DEAD!!

TheRedPill · Oct 20, 2011

Libya's Gaddafi caught hiding like a rat | Reuters

(Reuters) - 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.

"He called us rats, but look where we found him," said Ahmed Al Sahati, a 27-year-old government fighter, standing next to two stinking drainage pipes under a six-lane highway.

Government fighters, video evidence and the scenes of sheer carnage nearby told the story of the dictator's final hours.

Shortly before dawn prayers on Thursday, Gaddafi surrounded by a few dozen loyal bodyguards and accompanied by the head of his now non-existent army Abu Bakr Younis Jabr broke out of the two-month siege of Sirte and made a break for the west.

But they did not get far.

NATO said its aircraft struck military vehicles belonging to pro-Gaddafi forces near Sirte at about 8:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) on Thursday, but the alliance said it was unsure whether the strikes had killed Gaddafi.

Fifteen pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns lay burned out, smashed and smoldering next to an electricity sub station some 20 meters from the main road, about two miles west of Sirte.

They had clearly been hit by a force far beyond anything the motley army the former rebels have assembled during eight months of revolt to overthrow the once feared leader.

But there was no bomb crater, indicating the strike may have been carried out by a helicopter gunship, or had been strafed by a fighter jet.

Inside the trucks still in their seats sat the charred skeletal remains of drivers and passengers killed instantly by the strike. Other bodies lay mutilated and contorted strewn in the grass. Some 50 bodies in all.

Gaddafi himself and a handful of his men escaped death and appeared to have ran through a stand of trees toward the main road and hid in the two drainage pipes.

But a group of government fighters were on their tail.
"At first we fired at them with anti-aircraft guns, but it was no use," said Salem Bakeer, while being feted by his comrades near the road. "Then we went in on foot.

"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.

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.
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Blaze · Oct 20, 2011

I honestly don't give a fuck.

reefercrazyness · Oct 20, 2011

...so where is the joke thread for his death?

m00zix · Oct 20, 2011

Video attached. Confirmed he is dead:

Gaddafi's Last Moments Caught on Video

(is he dead in this video? I can't tell if people are holding him up)

BuffaloSoljah · Oct 21, 2011

Damn, crazy story.

Flyin'High' · Oct 21, 2011

Oh yea i'm sure he's dead.

Just like Osama, right?

BA · Oct 21, 2011

I wish somebody came here and did that to our "leader"

Fëanor · Oct 21, 2011

Haha well if an airstrike was after me I wouldn't hesitate to hide in the sewers either!

SmurfyBH · Oct 21, 2011

I am glad the rebels took him out and not the US. Know how everyone criticizes US for being up in everyone's ass.

My dad called me and told me.

Durchii · Oct 21, 2011

SmurfyBH said:

I am glad the rebels took him out and not the US. Know how everyone criticizes US for being up in everyone's ass.

My dad called me and told me.
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And yet, I get the feeling we'll be involved in Libya for a long, looooong time.

Catatafish · Oct 21, 2011

SmurfyBH said:

I am glad the rebels took him out and not the US. Know how everyone criticizes US for being up in everyone's ass.
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At 8:30 a.m., NATO warplanes struck the convoy, a hit that stopped it from escaping, according to French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet.
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News from The Associated Press

They may not have killed him directly but they sure as hell helped. The government has been "aiding" the rebels since march of this year.

SmurfyBH · Oct 21, 2011

Durchii said:

And yet, I get the feeling we'll be involved in Libya for a long, looooong time.

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Meh, it's life. We will always be involved in something somewhere.

DirtyApe · Oct 21, 2011

m00zix said:

Video attached. Confirmed he is dead:

(is he dead in this video? I can't tell if people are holding him up)
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SmurfyBH said:

Meh, it's life. We will always be involved in something somewhere.
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Just because thats true doesn't make it easier to swallow.

SmurfyBH · Oct 21, 2011

Whats hard to swallow is knowing my 1(one) vote is useless as long as big companies are in big brother's pockets @ DC. Fucking aliens to middle class Americans.

Turtle · Oct 21, 2011

Catatafish said:

News from The Associated Press

They may not have killed him directly but they sure as hell helped. The government has been "aiding" the rebels since march of this year.
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While we are a member of NATO, there are 27 other countries in it as well.

Swills · Oct 21, 2011

SmurfyBH said:

I am glad the rebels took him out and not the US. Know how everyone criticizes US for being up in everyone's ass.

My dad called me and told me.
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Without the US, UK, France, Germany, etc, aka NATO forces, Gaddafi would have never been killed. So essentially, we are absolutely responsible for his death. The US is up everyone's ass.

Durchii said:

And yet, I get the feeling we'll be involved in Libya for a long, looooong time.

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Very high probability you're right. History alone shows us that the west, America especially, occupies foreign nations with bases, while allowing corporations, Big Oil, & international bankers come in (bankers set up shop in Libya back in April). Libya has one awesome natural resource, oil, as they are the 9th largest oil producer in the world. The west will set up their puppet dictator/sham leader to try to control the area, as history also teaches us this.

Next target is Iran or Syria.

Swills · Oct 21, 2011

Turtle said:

While we are a member of NATO, there are 27 other countries in it as well.
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True, but the USA did a shit load of bombing. We love war and to bomb shit. France was up there too, competing for bombing missions with the USA, but nobody out bombs the USA.

US drones bombed Libya more than Pakistan

Now with the reported death of Gaddafi, the numbers are coming in regarding how much of a war Obama’s non-war has become. Between April 21 and this morning, robotic, unmanned Predator drones have conducted 145 airstrikes in Libya, reveals Pentagon spokesman George Little.
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Let's not forget about all the civilians these bombings killed and the destruction they've caused to Libya's cities and infrastructure.

Civilian losses | Wikipedia

May 14: NATO air strike hit a large number of people gathered for Friday prayers in the eastern city of Brega leaving 11 religious leaders dead and 50 others wounded.[442]

May 24: NATO air strikes in Tripoli kill 19 civilians and wound 150, according to Libyan state television.[443]

May 31: Libya claims that NATO strikes have left up to 718 civilians dead.[444]

June 19: NATO air strikes hit a residential house in Tripoli, killing seven civilians, according to Libyan state television.[445]

June 20: A NATO airstrike in Sorman, near Tripoli, killed fifteen civilians, according to government officials.[446] Eight rockets apparently hit the compound of a senior government official, in an area where NATO confirmed operations had taken place.[446]

June 25: NATO strikes on Brega hit a bakery and a restaurant, killing 15 civilians and wounding 20 more, Libyan state television claimed. The report further accused the coalition of "crimes against humanity". The claims were denied by NATO.[447][448]

June 28: NATO airstrike on the town of Tawragha, 300 km east of the Libyan capital, Tripoli kills eight civilians.[449]

July 25: NATO airstrike on a medical clinic in Zliten kills 11 civilians, though the claim was denied by NATO, who said they hit a vehicle depot and communications center.[450][451]

July 30: NATO attacks Libyan state TV, Al-Jamahiriya. 3 journalists killed.[452]

August 9: Libyan government claims 85 civillians were killed in a NATO airsrike in Majer, a village near Zliten. A spokesman confirms that NATO bombed Zliten at 2:34 a.m. on August 9,[453] but says he was unable to confirm the casualties. Commander of the NATO military mission, Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard says "I cannot believe that 85 civilians were present when we struck in the wee hours of the morning, and given our intelligence. But I cannot assure you that there were none at all".[454]

September 15: Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim declares that NATO air strikes killed 354 civilians and wounded 700 others, while 89 other civilians are supposedly missing. He also claims that over 2,000 civilians have been killed by NATO air strikes since September 1.[455] NATO denied the claims, saying they were unfounded.[456]
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'NATO bombed Libya back into Stone Age'
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNczox-l0Sk[/ame]

m00zix · Oct 21, 2011

Swills said:

Without the US, UK, France, Germany, etc, aka NATO forces, Gaddafi would have never been killed. So essentially, we are absolutely responsible for his death. The US is up everyone's ass.

Very high probability you're right. History alone shows us that the west, America especially, occupies foreign nations with bases, while allowing corporations, Big Oil, & international bankers come in (bankers set up shop in Libya back in April). Libya has one awesome natural resource, oil, as they are the 9th largest oil producer in the world. The west will set up their puppet dictator/sham leader to try to control the area, as history also teaches us this.

Next target is Iran or Syria.
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In essence the US truly lives life- do whatever the fuck you want. "These people have views contrary to mine? BETTER KILL 'EM."

camram · Oct 21, 2011

Man corrupt governments are sooo last year... Unless you are Saudi Arabia, Pakistan...

m00zix · Oct 21, 2011

camram said:

Man corrupt governments are sooo last year... Unless you are Saudi Arabia, Pakistan...
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And the US. Don't forget the US!

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