Moammar Gadhafi captured, reported killed

[chrisheltra]

Saddam Check
Osama Check
Anwar Al-Awalki Check
Gadhafi Check

who's next in line?

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...afi-arrested/1

Reuters quotes Abdel Majid of the Libyan transitional government as saying that a wounded Moammar Gaddafi has been captured.

Update at 8:52 a.m. ET: LNTC bya's #Gaddafi was killed in NTC forces attack, NTC Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam tells Reuters

Update at 8:39 am. ET: Bel Haj, the military chief for the National Transition Council, tells Al Jazeera that Gadhafi has been killed.

Update at 8:29 a.m. ET: Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the National Transitional Council, will address the Libyan nation shortly, Al Jazeera reports.

Update at 8:27 a.m. ET: A pro-Gadhafi TV website denies reports that theformer Libyan leader has been been killed or captured, Al Jazeera reports.

"The reports peddled by the lackeys of NATO about the capture or death of the brother leader, Moammar Gadhafi, are baseless," saiys Al-Libiya television. Gadhafi "is in good health," it adds. Reports Gadhafi was killed or captured "are nothing but rumors."

"It is not the first time they resort to this kind of disinformation," the report notes.

Update at 8:23 a.m. ET: Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley, reporting from Sirte, says it appears that the last hundred or so of Gadhafi loyalists tried to make a run for it and that 95% is under the control of the NTC forces.

Update at 8:14 a.m. ET: The Misrata Military Council, one of multiple command groups for revolutionary forces, says its fighters captured Gadhafi in Sirte, the Associated Press reports. Another commander, Abdel-Basit Haroun, tells the AP that Gadhafi was killed when an airstrike hit a convoy trying to flee.

The spokesman for Libya's transitional government, Jalal al-Gallal, and its military spokesman Abdul-Rahman Busin, however, say the reports have not been confirmed. A NATO official also says the alliance could not independently confirmed, the AP reports.

Update at 8:03 a.m. ET: The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Tripoli reports hearing "quite a lot of celebratory gunfire."

Update at 7:59 a.m. ET: Al Arabiya reports that the head of Libya's National Transitional Council will be speaking shortly about some "good news" regarding Gadhafi.

Update at 7:55 a.m. ET: There are numerous unconfirmed reports that Gadhafi may have died of wounds inflicted when his convoy was attacked. Reuters quotes a "senior NTC military official" as saying Gadhafi had died of wounds suffered in his capture near Sirte.

Al Jazeera reports that its sources also say that Gadhafi has been killed, but again no official confirmation.

Update at 7:45 a.m. ET: A fighter from the transitional government tells Al Jazeera that Gadhafi has been captured, but cannot confirm whether he is dead or alive.

Update at 7:40 a.m. ET: Al Jazeera quotes unidentified sources as saying that Gadhafi has been captured and is "critically injured."

Update at 7:38 a.m. ET: Reuters, quoting an NTC official, says a wounded Gadhafi was taken away in a hospital.

pdate at 7:35 a.m. ET: Libyan TV reports that GAdhafi is being taken to the city of Misrata, Al-Jazeera reports.

Update at 7:31 a.m. ET: Reuters quotes an official with the National Transitional Council as saying a woundedGadhafi was captured near Sirte as tried to flee in convoy which attacked by NATO.

Update at 7:28 a.m. ET: Former Libyan minister of information Ali Errishi tells Al Jazeera that top officials in the National Transitional Council have confirmed Gadhafi's capture.

The Reuters reports says that Gadhafi was wounded in both legs.

Al Jazeera quotes an NTC official as saying only that a "high-profile target" has been captured.

The report come as the transitional government says it has seized Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte.

Original post: Libyan TV channels are reporting the arrest of Moammar Qaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, Al Alibya reports. There has been no official confirmation.

Al Arabiya, quoting medics, also reports that ousted defense minister Abu Bakr Yunis has been found dead in the city, which was one of the last strongholds of Gadhafi loyalists.

[ForceFed4g63]

There's a supposed pic of his body at this link.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/midd...st-unrest-live

Now the rebels will be in control and we don't know who the eff they are. Wonderful...

[gearmesh, inc.]

Originally Posted by ForceFed4g63

Now the rebels will be in control and we don't know who the eff they are. Wonderful...

Yeah, ain't sticking our noses over in the sandbox a great idea? Those 3rd world huns' religion won't let them embrace freedom or any form of liberty. The replacement will be just as bad or worse than what they just took out. At least Quadaffi was quiet for the most part after Reagan set his ass straight a long time ago via a low cost attitude adjustment airstrike.

[ForceFed4g63]

Originally Posted by gearmesh, inc.

Yeah, ain't sticking our noses over in the sandbox a great idea? Those 3rd world huns' religion won't let them embrace freedom or any form of liberty. The replacement will be just as bad or worse than what they just took out. At least Quadaffi was quiet for the most part after Reagan set his ass straight a long time ago via a low cost attitude adjustment airstrike.

I agree 100%, we had absolutely NO reason to go in there. I find it hilarious that Obama and the Dems did nothing but bitch and complain during the Bush years about war, and in the short time since Obama has been in office he's managed to start 2 more wars in areas where there is ZERO threat to the United States.

[chrisheltra]

Americans had very little to do with this the Libyans are the ones that captured and killed him. Granted they got a little help from us in the beginning with well placed air strikes.

[ForceFed4g63]

Originally Posted by chrisheltra

Americans had very little to do with this the Libyans are the ones that captured and killed him. Granted they got a little help from us in the beginning with well placed air strikes.

We've been bankrolling the operation, we also fired $200 million worth of cruise missiles in the first couple days. There's also boots on the ground now. There's no strategic or security reason for us to be involved. Especially when what's going on in Syria and Uganda is exponentially worse, and Obama couldn't give 2 shits.

[Bradleyrj]

Originally Posted by chrisheltra

Saddam Check
Osama Check
Anwar Al-Awalki Check
Gadhafi Check

who's next in line?

Next "leader" that should be removed from power is this guy:

[chrisheltra]

Originally Posted by ForceFed4g63

We've been bankrolling the operation, we also fired $200 million worth of cruise missiles in the first couple days. There's also boots on the ground now. There's no strategic or security reason for us to be involved. Especially when what's going on in Syria and Uganda is exponentially worse, and Obama couldn't give 2 shits.

There may be boots there because we are there supporting the UN but AFAIK there are no US FOB's or extended US presence in Libya.

[cfcobalt]

Originally Posted by Bradleyrj

Next "leader" that should be removed from power is this guy:

lol...rep for you!

but the US has been the world's police force for years....unfortunately we can no longer police ourselves...so what gives us the right to do it to the world...

[ForceFed4g63]

Originally Posted by chrisheltra

There may be boots there because we are there supporting the UN but AFAIK there are no US FOB's or extended US presence in Libya.

No extended presence YET. We shall see. There;s no reason for us to support the UN anyway, we already give them billions of dollars every year, they should be able to handle this kind of stuff without us getting involved. Obama just wants to look strong on his "defense" policy for re-election, it's all politics, at our expense.

[ForceFed4g63]

[chrisheltra]

Originally Posted by Bradleyrj

Next "leader" that should be removed from power is this guy:

FBI knocking on your door in 3...2...

[ForceFed4g63]

http://youtu.be/NYN0zTQ242w

It's like Mussolini all over again lol

[Bradleyrj]

I dont wish harm on the guy. Just kindly ask him to step away. Hell, give him the lifetime Secret service protection and benefits. Just get him out of office.

[gearmesh, inc.]

Look out around Halloween time. That is right about when our national debt will surpass our GDP for the first time since WW2.

History shows that when powerful nations get that far in debt, they usually get involved in a war somewhere in order to juice up their lagging economies to go into production mode. The scary thing is, if Obama manages to get into a large scale war sometime before 2012 election day, he will try to argue that the election would need to be postponed due to an ongoing "national emergency".

[ForceFed4g63]

Another video, he's alive in this one. Looks like they captured him alive and then shot him in the head at some point.