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ONE OF MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s sons has reportedly been found dead in the slain Colonel’s hometown of Sirte where some of his closest allies also appear to have met their end.
Gaddafi died earlier today after being captured by National Transitional Council (NTC) forces.
Reuters reports that the acting Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jalil has said that Gaddafi was killed in gunfight between his supporters and NTC fighters after he was captured. Video appeared to show him being dragged through the streets after his capture, still alive.
Jibril went on to say that Gaddafi was still alive when he was put in car to evacuate him from Sirte but it appears he died in transit.
One of his five sons Mutassim Gaddafi was found dead in Sirte according to a commander of the National Transitional Council forces, Mohamed Leith, who told AFP: ”We found him dead.”
Video has also emerged on YouTube purporting to show the dead body of Mutassim but it could not be independently verified. (Note: Viewer discretion is advised)
Of his other sons, its reported by Sky News that Saif al Islam, once tipped to succeed his father, was badly wounded in a RAF airstrike and could possibly be dead.
Reuters reports that Abubakr Yunus Jaber, chief of Gaddafi’s armed forces, was also found dead in Sirte, and that the public face of the Gaddafi regime, Moussa Ibrahim, who acted as spokesperson, was captured.
There are however conflicting reports over the status of Gaddafi’s ruthless brother-in-law Abdullah Senussi.
Al Jazeera reported that Senussi had been killed along with Mutassim, however Sky News reports this evening that he has fled to Niger.
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“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy” anon
Well thank god you quoted that Catherine, I thought I was going mad thinking it was odd and totally wrong to hear middle aged women on the radio celebrating the death of someone like it was their sons 21st down the rugby club! An eye for an eye etc
What is done is done, even so, to rejoice in someone’s death, even if he was an A-hole, doesn’t make it a happy ending. Does it?
Apparently for some people, even if he just happened to be the son of an alleged A-hole he deserved to be murdered with no trial. Just goes to show you the disgusting mob mentality, it’s amazing that in 2012in a supposedly “developed country” some people have the same morals of the Roman populace cheering for blood and murder at the Circus Maximus.
It’s easy for you all to say this but, did you live in Libya while he was in power?
That’s the whole point, we didn’t, so why would Irish men and women who know nothing about Libya celebrate a murder? Fair play to the Libyans, I hope they get peace from this, but I’m not going to start celebrating the murder of another human being, even though granted he was a murdering f##ker himself, but murder is something that should not be celebrated especially by people from another country who know f all only what they read.
If anything you would have to say “did you live in Liby while HIS father was in power”. And for your information, Libya was a prosperous country after the embargo, in 2009 it had the highest standard of Living of the whole African continent and the fourth highest GDP (PPP) per capita in Africa. For God’s Sake In 2010 Libya was being praised by the UN for its human rights records!!!
The people in Libya under Gaddafi’s rule had:
Free education,
Free health care,
Free farmland a house and seeds,
Free energy bills,
$50,000 housing money for just married couples,
Interest free loans,
Debt free country,
Government pays half for your car,
Near free gasoline prices
Does this sound to you like a tyranical rule? Oh wait..they didn’t have “free media” WHAT A JOKE, LIKE WE HAVE THAT OURSELVES IN EUROPE!!!
So how can you people be so inhuman and ignorant to rejoice on the execution without trial of someone, no matter how much (and why since you know shit) you might despise Gaddafi….but even so, why are you happy that HIS SON has been executed without a trial? do you believe “sins” are hereditary like you where a bunch of fanatics or what???
I am sad to see some Irish people are so ignorant.
ANd now let me enlighten you a little bit dear Simon:
Remember when they told you in the news that the Libyan government was bombarding their own people? it was a LIE. and Russian sattelities confirmed there were no such bombings of civilians by governmental forces in Libya.
Remember the whole mass rape, mercenarie stories? another LIE, Amnesty International didn’t found any indictments of any of that appart from the testimonies of the rebels, and that’s all Moreno Ocampo and the Secretary General of NATO Rasmussen needed to justify their little war for oil, a bunch of Al-Qaeda, criminals and mercenaries telling all sort of crazy, unverified stories.
Hell even Qatar has admitted then sent 200 troops to fight along the rebels, that without counting the aereal support and all the foreign “contractors” (see when it’s USA or European mercenaries they are actually “contractors”) on ground. Does that sound like a civil war to you? I bet you thought USA invading Iraq was a civil war too then?
Remember the 1.8 million people pro Gaddafi rally in Tripoli in July 2011? You won’t remember this, they probably didn’t show it on the telly, and the propaganda machina knows you are not going to bother research on your on so there you go still ignorant to the actual facts.
Like that, many other multitudinary Green anti-NATO rallies, all over the country, in Sirte, Al Ajaylat, even in Benghazi a less multitudinary one that was actually shoot down by the rebels (there is a video, google it). And remember Libya is/was a country of 6 million.
What about all the political prisioners, like the female Libyan tv presenter Halla El Mesrati detained without trial (videos on youtube of this lady being hold on a hotel room threatened with a gun to her head, and in the latest video of her ordeal she is actually pregnant…nothing else is known about her). Or Saif Al Islam, detained without right to contact his family or a lawyer or any sort of contact with anyone, is not even clear he is still alive at this point, who appeared detained with visible signs of torture (2 fingers clean cutt from his hand), and the list goes on…..Are you rejoicing that these people are being retained without rights without being charged with any crime, tortured and murdered like Fakari Al-Hudiri (google the pictures of his tortured body) Do you like what you see?? Maybe they have brainwashed you so badly you can actually enjoy the suffering of another person as long as someone on the telly assures you “they are the bad guys”. SAD.
Remember the lynchings of black Libyans by the rebels, there are videos on Youtube, these videos where available since late february, yet NO ONE reported in media, it was all about selling people like you that the rebels where “freedom fighters” and all that bullshit. These people were lynched to death, civilians, just because they were black Libyans and so assumed to be “Pro Gaddafi”.
What about the massacre at Tripoli hospital, pro Gaddafi forces with their hands tied back, executed, bodies burned in piles….just disgusted, this was initially, of course, reported as “Pro Gaddafi forces executed their own soldiers that wanted to desert” Imagine…that’s how stupid they think we are.
This murderer, torturers, rapists are the rebels the CIA and NATO armed and provided with logistics and intelligence, this are the criminals and mercenaries some of them like Hakim Abdel Belhaj aka Hasadi/Hasidi the military commander of the Libyan NTC a former top Al-Qaeda member.
So the CIA instigated a revolution with criminals and mercenaries from Afghanistan, Lebanon, Benghazi and even from Europe, they destroyed Libya and forced thousands of people to flee their country, and more than 10.000 dead. To this day there is NO DEMOCRACY in Libya, there is about 60 different armed factions fighting each others for power, about 60 people dying every day, refugees being brutalized and murdered. THAT IS YOUR SUCCESSFUL HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION, yes, the NATO goons called it a successful operation you know why? Breaking NEws: “Libya Oil Output Back to Pre-War Levels” hooooray!!!
I bet you are falling for the same propaganda from NATO, US and the media right now about Siria and Iran.
SAD.
Ah for feck sake. He’s dead. Good. Good for everyone.
Talk for yourself you disgusting psychopath, some of us have something called “empathy” ever heard of it?
It is easy to treat your friends with respect and dignity, but how you treat your enemies will show what you are really made of.
Why Burma is not attacked by NATO for violation of human rights ? Reasons.
1. Burma does not have oil.
2. No Al Qaida is present there to help NATO and later be used as escape goat.
3. Democracy in it’s full spirit should only be applied inWest, while the people from oil Producing countries or the ones with geographical importance like Egypt and Pakistan are fine with dictatorship as long as it satisfies US and democracy as and when deemed necessary by US.
Catherine,
I thought that the quote was from MLK, … No?
I thought so too Desmond, but apparently not ….. http://www.salon.com/2011/05/03/fake_mlj_quote_osama_death/
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