Gadhafi Dead?

Filed in National by on October 20, 2011

Conflicting reports from various sources has former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi either injured and captured or killed outright. Reports from Libya’s Interim Transitional National Council indicate that Moammar Gadhafi has been killed.

Al-Jazeera:

Abdelhakim Bel Haj, the NTC military chief, told Al Jazeera Arabic that news of Muammar Gaddafi’s death has been confirmed. Bel Haj is the military commander who led revolutionary forces into Tripoli. […] The body of Muammar Gaddafi is being taken to a top secret location in Libya for security reasons, NTC official Mohamed Abdel Kafi told Reuters.

This comes on the heels of Secretary Clinton’s just concluded visit to Tripoli to meet with the new government of Libya.

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  1. Socialistic ben says:
    October 20, 2011 at 8:49 am

    looks like Assad needs to consider changing his occupation…. soon.

  2. MJ says:
    October 20, 2011 at 9:21 am

    Assad needs to get his ass(ad) out while he’s still alive.

  3. skippertee says:
    October 20, 2011 at 9:23 am

    Allah-ah-Akbar!

  4. MJ says:
    October 20, 2011 at 9:52 am

    MSNBC is reporting that his body is now in Misrata

  5. puck says:
    October 20, 2011 at 9:56 am

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  6. V says:
    October 20, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    so you think he’s waiting in line for judgement behind those 18 tigers, 18 lions, and the herpes monkey?

  7. El Somnambulo says:
    October 20, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    I remember this Carnac from long ago:

    A: ‘Sic Semper Tyrannis.’

    Q: What do you tell your dog to do when Semper Tyrannis is sitting on your lawn?

  8. MJ says:
    October 21, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    Jon Stewart’s take on the fall of Gaddafi.

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