How the West won Libya

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MJ22Ak03.html

They are fighting over the carcass as vultures. The French Ministry of Defense said they got him with a Rafale fighter jet firing over his convoy. The Pentagon said they got him with a Predator firing a Hellfire missile. After a wounded Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sought refuge in a filthy drain underneath a highway - an eerie echo of Saddam Hussein's "hole" - he was found by Transitional National Council (TNC) "rebels". And then duly executed.

Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, a Libyan doctor who accompanied Gaddafi's body in an ambulance and examined it, said he died from two bullets, one to the chest, one to the head.

The TNC - which has peddled lies, lies and more lies for months - swears he died in "crossfire". It may have been a mob. It may


have been Mohammad al-Bibi, a 20-year-old sporting a New York Yankees baseball cap who posed to the whole world brandishing Gaddafi's golden pistol; his ticket perhaps to collect the hefty $20 million dangled as the bounty for Gaddafi "dead or alive".

It gets curioser and curioser when one remembers that this is exactly what US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her lightning visit to Tripoli, had announced less than 48 hours before; Gaddafi should be "captured or killed". The Fairy Queenie satisfied Clinton's wishes, who learned about it by watching the screen of a BlackBerry - and reacting with the semantic earthquake "Wow!"

To the winners, the spoils. They all did it; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Pentagon and the TNC. From the minute a United Nations resolution imposing a no-fly zone over Libya became a green card to regime change, plan A was always to capture and kill him. Targeted assassination; that's Barack Obama administration official policy. There was no plan B.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Eventually we'll get to the ... who gives a sh-t ,he's Mort!

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. You don't get it. This is not about kadafy. It's about US. nt

[orpupilofnature57]

6. OK ,but in the end, it's the same liquid logic we've used for decades.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Any nation in the world that uses targetted assassinations as a matter of policy

and advocates and works for and funds the overthrow of regimes they don't like is a rogue nation.

Unless it is us.

[jakeXT]

4. It's a feeling of Tripoli today , Damascus tomorrow and Bejing and Moscow next week as expressed by

McCain

[bhikkhu]

5. What a lousy excuse for journalism

I know the bar is very low these days, but rhetoric like "The TNC - which has peddled lies, lies and more lies for months - swears he died in "crossfire" are almost comically bad. If you're already fired up and full of hate, this is just the thing.

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