Gaddafi's dead
 

Woohoo.

BBC is reporting that it can't confirm it. So the news is that there may be some news but they don't know what the news is or if it's news.

Allahu akbar!

Wow! neat.

'Praise be God'. BOOM

I'm waiting until mobile phone footage is uploaded of the rebels tea-bagging him.

Sky News showed some footage of what looked like Gaddafi bleeding to death in the back of a pickup truck.

I felt sorry for him when I saw them tearing him to bits, then I remembered who he was and I dunno, felt he deserved it I guess.

You shouldn't feel bad for him at all. He did deserve it and he had it coming since the start.

Yeh I know, but seeing anyone in such a feeble state always gives me a twinge deep down, I cant' help it.

It’s not Saif in Libya!

There seems to be an official confirmation of his death now...

It appears that world leaders only seem to bother overthrowing violent dictators when it becomes popular to hate them and beneficial at the polls.

What about his dead?

He is being buried in secret today apparently,

It's not exactly a secret anymore is it?

Does this really surprise you?

Thread title’s grammatically correct in this case.


So you know where he’s being buried?

please say they’re sticking him back in that drain

I didn't mean like that,

How can you secretly burry someone though?

I don't think it's something you can really be discrete about.

Where is Hitler's remains?

No body has yet discovered all the bodies I've burried up and down the country.

It bothers me that world leaders are applauding this event and congratulating the Libyan liberators rather than criticising them for committing a war crime. I'd much prefer to see him alive, suffer through a trial for his crimes and forced to reveal where he'd stashed all the money he'd embezzled over the years.

How did they commit a war crime?

They murdered a prisoner of war. And if you don't think he was a POW, then it was just normal murder.

At the moment they’re still in the process of investigating his death. Supposedly he was killed in a crossfire between the rebels and the loyalists, although that’s not been confirmed.

I think we’d all have liked to see him alive and trialled, though.

That doesn't change the fact that they murdered someone. The rebels are not an authorized force with a license to kill, despite the backing of the US and stuff. They were actively seeking him out to kill him so that does qualify as a war crime.

Sort of like the USA and Osama Bin Laden?

Which is why the US claims that SEAL Team 6 had instructions to capture him if it was possible.

Oh, I hadn't heard that. The articles I read suggested that he was captured in the drainpipe and then beaten up in captivity.

killed in crossfire = murdered

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Who gives a flying fuck? I don't know if you are playing devil's advocate or if you guys are serious but he himself massacred thousands, it's their country now, what they do is their own affair, they have the backing of some of the most powerful countries in the world. Fuck Khadafi.

Nope. A war crime is a war crime bro.

What are you talking about? Humans are civilized. That means mob mentality is above the law.

Eh, you're not wrong, but are you seriously saying it matters he's dead?

At the very least, this means he can't go out like a martyr.

Did you hear his last words? 'This is wrong, this is wrong in Islamic law'. Also, when they opened the storm drain he apparently said 'Please leave me what have I done to you?' Does this make it slightly more distressing for anyone else. Suddenly humanises him a bit more. Even if the plea is trivial and stupid.

I don't give a shit if they killed him illegally or not. I'm relieved somewhat of the turn of events, and it has nothing to do with the rebels getting their country back. I'm grateful that at least one of the major suppliers of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) might finally get cut off.

Libya supplied the IRA with a shit load of weaponry and semtex and thanks to them, hundreds of people have been murdered, killed or injured. Fuck him. I'm glad the boot of justice finally kicked him in the arse.

How is it distressing? He was a power-humping gorilla, throwing his army here and there and making life miserable in a way that you and I, in our comfy Western abodes, will probably never know for countless innocent people. I can absolutely agree that if, at the inevitable end of my inevitable regime, the walls closing in, the rebels at my hidey hole and a gun at my throat, I thought the only way I could get mercy would be to try to appeal to the same law I've been disobeying hither a thither for 40+ years of iron-fisting rule.

Also, you have to remember that these were rebels. This wasn't SEAL Team 6 attacking the block from their invincible deathchopper, these are passionate, freedom-seeking people. I make no assumptions on where Libya is going from here, but I can definitely salute the rebel-administered death of Gaddafi as a step in the right direction.

Well from the sound of it, he may indeed have been killed in cold blood: http://gu.com/p/32zcj
I have no sympathy for him, but from a moral perspective his death wasn’t justified. Doesn’t matter how evil or tyrannical he was, he was still a human; and two wrongs don’t make a right.

That said, overall I still feel the Libyan people are doing a good thing. Hopefully they can build a decent democratic country now.

I saw rebel mobile phone footage of his murder on BBC news.

Unpleasant as it was, I was entirely preoccupied musing on how useful modern technology is.

Seriously, 40 years ago we wouldn't have had a clue what was going on right now.