Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte 302
syngularyx writes with a snippet from Reuters' report that "Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said. His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen." An anonymous reader links to the news as reported by Al Jazeera (citing confirmation from the military spokesman of the National Transition Council). Time reports that many Libyans were celebrating even preliminary reports of Gaddafi's death.
Re:I'm gonna wait: (Score:5, Informative)
Well judging by the fact the BBC just posted a still from a live feed from Al Jazeera which shows someone who looks pretty much like Gaddafi being dragged through the street I'd say it's pretty much more reliable. It's further bolstered by the fact the kid who supposedly found him was shown waving round a gold plated desert eagle or similar. I doubt that's the type of expensive custom side arm that's just left lying around.
Unless Gaddafi is capable of coming back from the dead I think there's a fair chance he's gone.
Kamis is long dead, even Gaddafi's own Syrian based TV station accepted that.
Re:Arab spring my ass (Score:4, Informative)
Uh, you do realize that actually the Muslim Brotherhood hates [wikipedia.org] "western culture" and the U.S., right? They have also publicly stated that they would like to wage warfare on the west?
As such, your whole comment doesn't make any sense at all. Maybe it was a terrible troll attempt, I don't know.
Re:I'm gonna wait: (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah...spread all over an Afghan hillside [huffingtonpost.com], unfortunately.
Re:Well, that's it then... (Score:5, Informative)
In the words of the MB spokesman:
"We believe that the political reform is the true and natural gateway for all other kinds of reform. We have announced our acceptance of democracy that acknowledges political pluralism, the peaceful rotation of power and the fact that the nation is the source of all powers. As we see it, political reform includes the termination of the state of emergency, restoring public freedoms, including the right to establish political parties, whatever their tendencies may be, and the freedom of the press, freedom of criticism and thought, freedom of peaceful demonstrations, freedom of assembly, etc. It also includes the dismantling of all exceptional courts and the annulment of all exceptional laws, establishing the independence of the judiciary, enabling the judiciary to fully and truly supervise general elections so as to ensure that they authentically express people's will, removing all obstacles that restrict the functioning of civil society organizations, etc."
Re:Congratulations, citizens of NATO countries! (Score:4, Informative)
Hey, don't generalise against liberals. I'm a liberal and I agree with you minus the anti-liberal stuff.
The problem isn't liberals, it's just that some people whatever their political leaning are complete idiots. Look at Sarah Palin, it sure as hell aint because she's a liberal that she's so stupid.
Re:Congratulations, citizens of NATO countries! (Score:3, Informative)
Of course there's a choice (Score:2, Informative)
Once it became clear which way the wind was blowing, the US didn't have a whole lot of choice but support "Arab Spring". What was the alternative? Encourage a Syrian-style slaughter
The alternative was to stay out of it at that point. We also backed the Ayatollah in Iran in 1979 because "that's where the wind was blowing". That turned out well,eh?
Libya was like the Spanish Civil War in many respects. There was no "good side". Just as Spain had Communists vs. Fascists, Libya had Qaddafi vs. Islamists. Best to just stay out of it.