Gaddafi dead

by Robert Koehler on October 21, 2011

in Americans are Strange

If you’d like to see the ghoulish footage, the Daily Mail has plenty of it.

Tagged as: Gaddafi

{ 22 comments… read them below or add one }

1 holterbarbour October 21, 2011 at 9:25 am: I got ten dollars on Assad being next. Hopefully.
2 thekorean October 21, 2011 at 9:29 am: Here’s to hoping Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un meet a similar demise.
3 holterbarbour October 21, 2011 at 9:33 am: (but I would happily forfeit my ten dollars if KJI and KJU went first.)
4 paulhewson October 21, 2011 at 11:16 am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spJUGofr7qs

Steve walks warily down the street
With his brim pulled way down low
Ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet
Machine guns ready to go

Words and music by John Deacon

(He was the bassist. Unlike Nirvana and The Police for example they all
wrote songs. Although I would be remiss if I failed to mention that
Stewart Copeland wrote Miss Gradenko and On Any Other Day. And
Andy Summers wrote that gem Mother.)
5 SomeguyinKorea October 21, 2011 at 11:29 am: I’ve met the relative of three victims of the Lockerbie bombing. One of my relatives is also close friends with someone who’s lost his whole family, wife and kids, in that terrorist attack. Although I don’t condone violence as a source of revenge, I hope his death is a meaningful conclusion to the tragedy for the friends and families of his many victims.
6 cmm October 21, 2011 at 11:52 am: RIH Gaddafi.
7 Koreansentry October 21, 2011 at 11:54 am: I like to see the DNA result from dead Qaddafi body, because I still think that dead man isn’t Qaddafi.
8 Bipolar Mindscrew October 21, 2011 at 1:37 pm: His ego was too big to have a doppelganger. The golden gun and his loyal bodyguards kind of give it away, too. Doppelgangers in past cases are usually found alone and abandoned. RIP MoFo.
9 SomeguyinKorea October 21, 2011 at 2:02 pm: #8,

It’s no secret that he had many doubles, some of which stood in his place for TV interviews by fear the reporters were in fact assassins (there was a time when Gaddaffi always seemed to look oddly different every time he was interviewed by TV reporters).

I came across a story a few years ago in which, if I remember correctly, a French surgeon claimed he had been flown in by Gaddaffi and ordered to save the life of man who had been in car accident…or else. The man was said to be his favorite body double.

PS. Assassins posing as reporter killed Ahmad Shah Masood.
10 Wedge October 21, 2011 at 2:04 pm: #9: Let the conspiracy theories begin.
11 SomeguyinKorea October 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm: #7,

It could be. But, I think it’s probably him. I appears they had intelligence that he was in the convoy that was attacked. May have even known which car he was in because when the convoy split up, they took out the other vehicles in his group but not his. He had to leave his vehicle because it was damaged, but not destroyed.
12 Seth Gecko October 21, 2011 at 3:50 pm: “RIH”, lol Cmm.
13 pawikirogii 石鵝 October 21, 2011 at 6:33 pm: now if this could happen to natanyahu, the world would be a wonderful place.
14 Apodyopsis Gymnophoria October 21, 2011 at 7:09 pm: pawi have a lolipop – http://www.takethislollipop.com/

good riddance to Qaddafi!

please someone take out the NK Kim family.
15 slim October 21, 2011 at 9:42 pm: I definitely prefer pawi’s fantasies about robotic squads of scantily clad, lip-syncing teenagers taking over the world to his fantasies about killing “the jew.”
16 iMe October 22, 2011 at 1:17 am: I’m personally hoping that something like this erupts in China. It’s bound to happen sooner or later, so GIT R DONE, Chinese!
17 Bulgogi Fanatic October 22, 2011 at 2:00 am: Wow, almost all of those pictures were quite gruesome. One of the questions I have is how democracy will be implemented in Libya. I’m sure it’s going to take a long time for this country to stabilize itself.

This rebellion somewhat brought thoughts about the American revolution – how these revolutions can bring many to death but also hope for the future.
18 bumfromkorea October 22, 2011 at 2:07 am: If the Libyan tribes are too different from one another, wouldn’t a loose confederacy the best choice (like America during her experimental Articles of Confederation days)?

I sincerely hope that Gaddafi’s demise brought a lot of people closure. It would have been better if he was tried in front of everyone before getting killed, but still.
19 keith October 22, 2011 at 2:45 am: I’m glad the bastard is dead, rough justice but justice all the same, The IRA almost killed me with Libyan ‘semtex’. The young lads who killed him looked over the moon. It would be nice if the same thing happened in North Korea. I don’t want KJI to die in a peaceful and dignified way. It’s good to see savages go like savages. The video where he is pleading for his life is not nice, but he shows himself to the a bully and a coward.

At least Hitler had some sense and blew his own brains out. That’s pretty cool really. I’m certainly no admirer of Hitler, but he killed himself, (rather than hiding in a hole or a sewer) and that’s pretty gutsy. I hope the kid who shot G get’s a lot of money selling the golden gun on ebay! I’m sure they’re a lot of collectors-museums who would pay a lot of money for that piece.

1 down and a lot to go.
20 iwshim October 22, 2011 at 10:51 am: One more reason for Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un to retain nuclear weapons.

Good ridance to Gaddafi but not exactly great news.
21 Charles Tilly October 24, 2011 at 9:18 pm: Typical Kenneth Waltz. Here he is with his co-author Mira Rapp-Hooper on why Kim Jong-Il is even more unlikely to disarm in the wake of Qaddafi’s grisly demise:

North Korea has long demanded a security guarantee from the United States; given the volatile and aggressive nature of the regime, the U.S. has understandably been hesitant to give one. But now more than ever, it is hard to see what sort of assurance could convince Kim to disarm. The Dear Leader has probably learned through careful observation that the only true security guarantee for a fragile autocracy, one that must fear internal dissent as well as outside aggressors, may be a nuclear arsenal.

Conventional weapons, which North Korea has in spades, have time and again shown themselves to be unreliable deterrents when state survival is in question. Nuclear weapons have never failed to deter other states — no matter how powerful those states may be. The strong have been able to deter the strong — the United States and Soviet Union did so for decades — but, alas, the weak can also deter the strong.
22 cinemagauche October 25, 2011 at 5:27 pm: A sad day for Libya and Africa. We can only hope the leaders of the criminal alliance that has perpetrated this great evil are brought to justice, before Gaddafi’s loyalist forces hunt them down.