Daffy duck has been shot (Colonel Gaddafi)
20 October 2011, 11:28 PM
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I cant say I am sorry to see he had an inglorious end, I am not sorry he is dead but I kind of regret that he doesn't have to face questioning about Lockerbie, preferably by relatives of those killed on the ground and those on the plane, perhaps a video of him seeing footage from back then. I have no connection with Lockerbie but it came at at a time when I was realising the enormity of such events and it was perhaps the first one to hit home and was around the time I lost my grandparents which sounds irrelevant but it was the first time I experienced death and grief in any measure and it kind of hit home how losing older relatives was hard, never mind kids, brothers and partners, only Dunblane hit me personally any harder.
So, I am fairly certain he was complicit in the bombings, I am sorry he lived so long and I am glad he didnt get to live out his old age and felt some terror, perhaps like some poor sod woken from a bored sleep attached to a row of 747 seats plummeting to earth through the night sky over Scotland.
So, I am fairly certain he was complicit in the bombings, I am sorry he lived so long and I am glad he didnt get to live out his old age and felt some terror, perhaps like some poor sod woken from a bored sleep attached to a row of 747 seats plummeting to earth through the night sky over Scotland.
So, good riddence to Gaddafi. Doesn't seem clear whether he died from wounds sustained on capture or was simply shot dead after capture. Any thoughts anyone? Anyway, as Jock McAleese, one of the SAS troopers involved in the ending of the Iranian embassy siege, used to say when describing that event, "Tap, tap, deed (dead)..........amen to that!
20 October 2011, 11:40 PM
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21 October 2011, 06:41 AM
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well, he's definitely dead. theres a few videos out there and it certainly is him. bullet through the head. its on liveleak.com or your favourite video site, probably NOT on youtube
21 October 2011, 09:09 AM
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You have to say his death looks like him being executed by his captors which isn't really the ideal advertisement for the NTC. Of course this is only assumption but with so many differeing stories it all seems a bit convenient he was caught in cross fire after he had been captured. More like one of the captors thought they would do what a vast majority of Libyans would like to have done and put a bullet in his head.
Anyone thinking he should have been made to face trial and answer questions on Lockerbie are ignoring the fact the man was a lunatic and not fit to give straight answers. Nothing he would have said you could ever believe.
Anyone thinking he should have been made to face trial and answer questions on Lockerbie are ignoring the fact the man was a lunatic and not fit to give straight answers. Nothing he would have said you could ever believe.
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21 October 2011, 02:42 PM
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Oh, I agree, would be interesting to see what happened though, or even better a queue of bereaved Pan Am relatives and Lockerbie residents all waiting to give him a kick in the bollocks.
21 October 2011, 02:55 PM
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It is certainly true that his death won't be very heavily mourned. It is hardly surprising that he did not survive his capture given what was done to so many people in his name.
I think however that he should have been kept alive if it was not crossfire which killed him as they said. Deliberate execution on the spot would have dragged the freedom fighters down to his level.
Everyone deserves a fair trial despite their crimes in a civilised world. He should have been tried in Libya and sentenced there. Little doubt that he would have got the death sentence from the court.
Going through all that with hanging to look forward to at the end of it all would have been a far worse way for him to go as well.
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I think however that he should have been kept alive if it was not crossfire which killed him as they said. Deliberate execution on the spot would have dragged the freedom fighters down to his level.
Everyone deserves a fair trial despite their crimes in a civilised world. He should have been tried in Libya and sentenced there. Little doubt that he would have got the death sentence from the court.
Going through all that with hanging to look forward to at the end of it all would have been a far worse way for him to go as well.
Les
22 October 2011, 05:57 AM
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It is certainly true that his death won't be very heavily mourned. It is hardly surprising that he did not survive his capture given what was done to so many people in his name.
I think however that he should have been kept alive if it was not crossfire which killed him as they said. Deliberate execution on the spot would have dragged the freedom fighters down to his level.
Everyone deserves a fair trial despite their crimes in a civilised world. He should have been tried in Libya and sentenced there. Little doubt that he would have got the death sentence from the court.
Going through all that with hanging to look forward to at the end of it all would have been a far worse way for him to go as well.
Les
I think however that he should have been kept alive if it was not crossfire which killed him as they said. Deliberate execution on the spot would have dragged the freedom fighters down to his level.
Everyone deserves a fair trial despite their crimes in a civilised world. He should have been tried in Libya and sentenced there. Little doubt that he would have got the death sentence from the court.
Going through all that with hanging to look forward to at the end of it all would have been a far worse way for him to go as well.
Les
What I hope to see is a gov't formed and quite rapidly putting itself about stopping any further "abuses". There's sure to be enough to do trying to define a nation after 42 years of being one man's sandy train set.
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22 October 2011, 06:57 AM
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From self styled 'King of Africa' strutting the world stage in costume, to a wretch pleading for his life dragged from storm drain.
I don't like it, but I think it is a necessary act of catharsis for the Libyan people.
Trials at the ICC just don't release pent up anger and rage....it's got to go somewhere....the Libyans had it is spades after 42 years of this guy.
His very public (and theatrical) death is a consequence of the cult of personality he erected and his despotic rule.
22 October 2011, 11:42 AM
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He wasn't killed in cold blood, it was an act of hot blooded passion passion...and theater. A total public humiliation and degradation of a man who had humiliated and degraded the Libyan people.
From self styled 'King of Africa' strutting the world stage in costume, to a wretch pleading for his life dragged from storm drain.
I don't like it, but I think it is a necessary act of catharsis for the Libyan people.
Trials at the ICC just don't release pent up anger and rage....it's got to go somewhere....the Libyans had it is spades after 42 years of this guy.
His very public (and theatrical) death is a consequence of the cult of personality he erected and his despotic rule.
From self styled 'King of Africa' strutting the world stage in costume, to a wretch pleading for his life dragged from storm drain.
I don't like it, but I think it is a necessary act of catharsis for the Libyan people.
Trials at the ICC just don't release pent up anger and rage....it's got to go somewhere....the Libyans had it is spades after 42 years of this guy.
His very public (and theatrical) death is a consequence of the cult of personality he erected and his despotic rule.
22 October 2011, 01:14 PM
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Key is "civilised world", the man was a tyrant who reaped what he sowed. He created the situation/mentality that lead to his death.
What I hope to see is a gov't formed and quite rapidly putting itself about stopping any further "abuses". There's sure to be enough to do trying to define a nation after 42 years of being one man's sandy train set.
J.
What I hope to see is a gov't formed and quite rapidly putting itself about stopping any further "abuses". There's sure to be enough to do trying to define a nation after 42 years of being one man's sandy train set.
J.
It seemed to be a pretty civilised place anyway, except for the encampment some little way out of Tripoli where the shacks were made out of corrugated iron and you had to pinch your nose as you were driven past it.
Like you I hope that they form a good and honest government which will rule in a manner which makes up for the horrors of the past.
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22 October 2011, 01:24 PM
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He wasn't killed in cold blood, it was an act of hot blooded passion passion...and theater. A total public humiliation and degradation of a man who had humiliated and degraded the Libyan people.
From self styled 'King of Africa' strutting the world stage in costume, to a wretch pleading for his life dragged from storm drain.
I don't like it, but I think it is a necessary act of catharsis for the Libyan people.
Trials at the ICC just don't release pent up anger and rage....it's got to go somewhere....the Libyans had it is spades after 42 years of this guy.
His very public (and theatrical) death is a consequence of the cult of personality he erected and his despotic rule.
From self styled 'King of Africa' strutting the world stage in costume, to a wretch pleading for his life dragged from storm drain.
I don't like it, but I think it is a necessary act of catharsis for the Libyan people.
Trials at the ICC just don't release pent up anger and rage....it's got to go somewhere....the Libyans had it is spades after 42 years of this guy.
His very public (and theatrical) death is a consequence of the cult of personality he erected and his despotic rule.
There are recordings of a discussion whether to shoot him or not anyway.
I reckon that the Libyans would have been just as happy had he been tried by a Libyan court and his eventual penalty for his shameful misdeeds was easy enough to forecast. The LTC would have garnered more world respect for such an action too.
No one is denying the reasons for what happened of course, how could they?
Les
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