Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after an armed uprising toppled his regime two months ago, met a violent and vengeful death Thursday in the hands of rebel fighters who stormed his final stronghold in his Mediterranean hometown Surt. At least one of his sons was also killed.So all that remains for NATO's little colonial enterprise is the looting by multinational oil companies and ………… What else is there in Libya?
Al Jazeera television showed footage of Colonel Qaddafi, alive but bloody, as he was dragged around by armed men in Surt. The television also broadcast a separate clip of his half-naked torso, with eyes staring vacantly and an apparent gunshot wound to the head, as jubilant fighters fired automatic weapons in the air. A third video, posted on Youtube, showed excited fighters hovering around his lifeless-looking body, posing for photographs and yanking his limp head up and down by the hair.
Conflicting accounts quickly emerged about whether Colonel Qaddafi was executed by his captors, died from gunshot wounds sustained in a firefight, was mortally wounded in a NATO air strike on his escaping convoy or bled to death in an ambulance. But the images broadcast by Al Jazeera punctuated an emphatic and gruesome ending to his four decades as a ruthless and bombastic autocrat who had basked in his reputation as the self-styled king of kings of Africa.
Tourism maybe?
And, of course, money to gotten by
Ah, but will the looting be worse than that of previous regime?
ReplyDeleteYes, because as rapacious as Muammar and his offspring was, the amount of looting that can be engaged in by Libya's new entrepreneur class, along with the gaping maw of big oil and the banksters, make them look like Mother Theresa.
ReplyDeleteSee the oligarchs is Russia as an example.
They were way worse than the nomenklatura at their most larcenous.