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Ghadafi slain?
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Kambiri Zoltana
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-10-20 14:38:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Kambiri Zoltana
This seems to be big new currently, is he finally dead? Or r those fake pictures they put everywhere?

Apperently he ended up being shot in some convoy trying to escape. Then robbed of his wealth by his own soldiers.
Graelyn
Aeternus Command Academy
#2 - 2011-10-20 15:21:11 UTC
Well, that'll happen.

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Adunh Slavy
#3 - 2011-10-20 15:29:12 UTC
All reports are that he is indeed dead. Now the international bankers have a new client state, hooray!

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.  - William Pitt
Alara IonStorm
#4 - 2011-10-20 16:16:59 UTC
It always gives me the Warm and Fuzzies when a Dictator dies and all his allies immediately pick the corpse clean and vie for control.

Like Monkeys at the Zoo.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#5 - 2011-10-20 16:19:24 UTC
I have not seen the offical AP report that it is confirmed that he is dead. Then again I have been at work all morning.


Slade
Rana Ash
Gradient
Electus Matari
#6 - 2011-10-20 17:41:29 UTC
Yep he is dead Rather graphic images
Myxx
The Scope
#7 - 2011-10-20 18:02:10 UTC
Bad year to be a leader in the middle east/arabian peninsula. Good riddance to him.
SpaceSquirrels
#8 - 2011-10-21 01:07:01 UTC
Mousilini'd him. (Spelling?) Oh well were better off.
Jhagiti Tyran
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#9 - 2011-10-21 01:24:01 UTC
So much for putting him on trial, he probably deserved to die but still it doesn't bode well for a new government to replace the old regime via a lynching. The NTC could still have executed him after the trial, it makes them look more like a disorganised rabble than a government.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2011-10-21 01:33:41 UTC
Jhagiti Tyran wrote:
So much for putting him on trial, he probably deserved to die but still it doesn't bode well for a new government to replace the old regime via a lynching. The NTC could still have executed him after the trial, it makes them look more like a disorganised rabble than a government.


Hence the term 'rebels' P

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SpaceSquirrels
#11 - 2011-10-21 03:18:06 UTC
Jhagiti Tyran wrote:
So much for putting him on trial, he probably deserved to die but still it doesn't bode well for a new government to replace the old regime via a lynching. The NTC could still have executed him after the trial, it makes them look more like a disorganised rabble than a government.


So a farse of a trial is really that much better? Seems more pragmatic to just get it done in situations of asshat dictators. If the end result is still -1 dictator... Who cares?
Taedrin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2011-10-21 03:54:30 UTC
SpaceSquirrels wrote:
Jhagiti Tyran wrote:
So much for putting him on trial, he probably deserved to die but still it doesn't bode well for a new government to replace the old regime via a lynching. The NTC could still have executed him after the trial, it makes them look more like a disorganised rabble than a government.


So a farse of a trial is really that much better? Seems more pragmatic to just get it done in situations of asshat dictators. If the end result is still -1 dictator... Who cares?


Theoretically, you would want to replace the dictator with a regime that actually cares about justice, and the rule of law.
Jhagiti Tyran
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#13 - 2011-10-21 04:08:14 UTC
SpaceSquirrels wrote:
Jhagiti Tyran wrote:
So much for putting him on trial, he probably deserved to die but still it doesn't bode well for a new government to replace the old regime via a lynching. The NTC could still have executed him after the trial, it makes them look more like a disorganised rabble than a government.


So a farse of a trial is really that much better? Seems more pragmatic to just get it done in situations of asshat dictators. If the end result is still -1 dictator... Who cares?


The point is the NTC are trying to establish themselves as a credible and legitimate government, but lynching the head of the previous regime defeats that. Governments are supposed to be about order and the rule of law, especially democracies but instead the NTC have started off with a mob in the street carrying out a lynching. Gaddafi's execution like this was an autocratic act, not to many steps away from the way he ran the country according to his whims.

As for who cares apparently they claimed that they did, the Libyan NTC didn't want to stoop to Gaddafi's tactic and wanted to put him on trial.

There are other reasons for an investigation and trial to, if they ever want to get to the bottom of which members of the Qaddafi regime where involved in which atrocitys so the right people get punished for the right things. If they don't do that and just summarily execute every suspect its back to a disorganised autocratic rabble, not a government.
Astenion
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2011-10-21 08:14:46 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
It always gives me the Warm and Fuzzies when a Dictator dies and all his allies immediately pick the corpse clean and vie for control.

Like Monkeys at the Zoo.


This.
Citizen20100211442
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-10-21 12:43:45 UTC
RIP.

We just can passively sit, and watch NWO coming step by step.

To be, or not to be, that's the question.
iudex
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#16 - 2011-10-21 13:01:52 UTC
That happens if you are a dictator of a country, that has oil. If Lybia didn't have oil deposits, he could do to his people whatever he liked, no one would have cared.
Vachir Khan
Rugged Ruff and Ready
#17 - 2011-10-21 13:39:14 UTC
iudex wrote:
That happens if you are a dictator of a country, that has oil. If Lybia didn't have oil deposits, he could do to his people whatever he liked, no one would have cared.


That's true, sadly. Thing is that just as with Bin Laden as long as he's alive he'll have power and control, and tons of followers. So while I'm certainly not a fan of the "police state without rules and courts" I'll reluctantly agree to the "best if he were to die" idea. Also, the fcker deserved it.
SpaceSquirrels
#18 - 2011-10-21 17:22:14 UTC
iudex wrote:
That happens if you are a dictator of a country, that has oil. If Lybia didn't have oil deposits, he could do to his people whatever he liked, no one would have cared.


It also helped that he had a bad past with western nations. At one time sought nuclear weapons, and was in ear shot of Europe, and consequently said European airfields.

Never underestimate a lazy war.
jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#19 - 2011-10-21 18:38:04 UTC
ho hum ... how the wheel of life turns ... one despotic regime run by a tyrant ... only to be replaced by yet another .one only has to look at egypt to see how things are heading ... they havent even got around to getting themselves a "democratically" elected government yet .... but that hasnt stopped them from already starting to attack the coptic christians ...


some things will just never bloody change Roll