Civil War in Libya

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-20-2011, 17:06

Didn't seem to matter too much when Bin Laden copped it and they were both about equally popular.

**Lemur** · 10-20-2011, 17:17

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

Didn't seem to matter too much when Bin Laden copped it and they were both about equally popular.

OBL had already been buried at sea when the news broke, so that was a very different circumstance. No idea what the status is of the Colonel's remains.

**Viking** · 10-20-2011, 17:20

Video appearing to show Gaddafi when he was still alive:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Adrian II** · 10-20-2011, 20:24

Originally Posted by Viking

Video appearing to show Gaddafi when he was still alive:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Well, so much for the story that he died in a fight. Ugly footage nonetheless. And he's gonna need his Allah where he is going.

AII

**Samurai Waki** · 10-20-2011, 20:26

Originally Posted by Adrian II

Well, so much for the story that he died in a fight. Ugly footage nonetheless. And he's gonna need his Allah where he is going.

AII

He looks like he got shot a few times... maybe he was nearing death at the time of capture. In any case, this was the fate he wanted.

**Hax** · 10-20-2011, 20:48

I've never heard an Arab say that so many times without something blowing up.

And a basic course of Islamology would do you good, sir.

**Papewaio** · 10-20-2011, 21:15

Recognise the humanity even in the worst of us.

Yes, I think he got what he ultimately deserved.

Yes, I ultimately think a trial would have got more mileage from a sane person.

One of the better quotes:

Mansour el Ferjani, 49, a Benghazi bank clerk and father of five posed for a photograph holding a Kalashnikov rifle: "Don't think I will give this gun to my son," he said. "Now that the war is over we must give up our weapons and the children must go to school.

"But Gaddafi was a terrible dictator and this was the only way to get rid of him. We want everything people have in free countries - want people to live in peace as you do across the Mediterranean where life doesn't require the machinegun."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/muammar-...#ixzz1bM4XoAUT

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-20-2011, 19:24

Originally Posted by Lemur

OBL had already been buried at sea when the news broke, so that was a very different circumstance. No idea what the status is of the Colonel's remains.

Fair enough.