North African & Middle Eastern uprisings

[redandblack]

Thanks for posting those, Quichey.

It's powerful stuff and good information for those of us who have been following events there.

[Q.]

Also, here are some amazing photographs of the Yemeni uprisings:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/yemen_unrest_and_turmoil.html

[redandblack]

Some wonderful photos there.

[Q.]

[Dirko]

Geez they could've used photo shop to spruce him up a tad.......

[Gingernuts]

Really happy to see this news this morning (that the conflict was over). They had footage of a Lybian bloke saying something like "I feel new again, reborn like the country, like I am 7 hrs old".

Don't think those of us who live in a free country in the first world can really comprehend something like this.

What happens now is crucial though. Fingers crossed Gaddaffi isn't just replaced by a similar or worse creature.

[Psyber]

Early reports suggested he had been captured alive, and he appears a bit beaten up in the picture.
It looks like some may have thought a trial would be a waste of time..

[OnSong]

Early reports suggested he had been captured alive, and he appears a bit beaten up in the picture.
It looks like some may have thought a trial would be a waste of time..

Dragged out of a filthy tunnel like a rat. Perfect.

[Q.]

Fingers crossed the USA don't replace Gaddaffi with a similar or worse creature.

Edited for accuracy

[Q.]

Gaddafi's death - who pulled the trigger?

Disturbing images of a blood-stained and shaken Muammar Gaddafi being dragged around by angry fighters quickly circulated around the world after the Libyan dictator's dramatic death near his home town of Sirte.

The exact circumstances of his demise are still unclear with conflicting accounts of his death emerging. But the footage, possibly of the last chaotic moments of Gaddafi's life, offered some clues into what happened.

Gaddafi was still alive when he was captured near Sirte. In the video, filmed by a bystander in the crowd and later aired on television, Gaddafi is shown being dragged off a vehicle's bonnet and pulled to the ground by his hair.

"Keep him alive, keep him alive!" someone shouts. Gunshots then ring out. The camera veers off.

"They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed him," one senior source in the NTC told Reuters. "He might have been resisting."

[The Sleeping Giant]

Early reports suggested he had been captured alive, and he appears a bit beaten up in the picture.
It looks like some may have thought a trial would be a waste of time..

Dragged out of a filthy tunnel like a rat. Perfect.

And beaten with shoes.

[OnSong]

Early reports suggested he had been captured alive, and he appears a bit beaten up in the picture.
It looks like some may have thought a trial would be a waste of time..

Dragged out of a filthy tunnel like a rat. Perfect.

And beaten with shoes.

And then eaten by Bear Grylls.

[The Sleeping Giant]

His executors must have watched Reservoir Dogs. They gut shot him.

[mick]

good outcome Rann and Ghadaffi both gone in the last 24hrs.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Happy days mick?

[dedja]

good outcome Rann and Ghadaffi both gone in the last 24hrs.

so apparently a rolled up magazine had the same effect ... politically anyway

[Gingernuts]

Pretty horrific stuff:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/gaddafi-was-sodomised-by-knife-shocking-images/story-e6frea8l-1226175898865

What a fall. Just shows that eventually what you dish out comes back at you ten fold.

[Dirko]

Quick quick Abib stick in in his arse......

[GWW]

Interesting how much bravado Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein have when they tell their countrymen and the world at large how they will fight to the death as some type of noble warrior, but when they're captured its in some type of filthy, obscure hideout where they look all dishevelled and they beg for their life.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Pretty horrific stuff:

[url]http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/gaddafi-was-sodomised-by-knife-shocking-images/story-e6frea8l-1226175898865[/url]

What a fall. Just shows that eventually what you dish out comes back at you ten fold.

That is one way to look at it.