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Libya - Gaddafi views himself as a martyr

#41
EdHunter said:
One simple solution to this. Sniper + rifle + half a mile away + public address = no more Gaddaffi Duck.
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The way things are going over there now, it won't be long before somebody does this. He's really feeling the pinch now and I only worry that with his $32 billion, yep that's a "B" word, that he doesn't keep spending such insane amounts of money to mercenaries to kill his own people as a last ditch effort to keep any semblance of control that he thinks he has. )-(
 
#42
bassrique said:
Remember Lockerbie.
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Indeed. And Yvonne Fletcher:
WPC Yvonne Joyce Fletcher (15 June 1958 – 17 April 1984)[1] was a British police officer who was shot and killed in London's St James's Square while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy. Her death resulted in a police siege of the embassy, which lasted for eleven days. The shooting also caused the breakdown of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Libya. Her death was the third murder or manslaughter of an on-duty mainland British policewoman, only 18 months after the first.[2]

Fletcher was born in Wiltshire and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1977. At 5 ft 2¾in (159 cm) tall, she was believed to be Britain's shortest police officer (at the time, police officers were generally subject to minimum height requirements).

Nobody has ever been convicted of her murder, though after 15 years the Libyan government finally accepted responsibility for her death and agreed to pay compensation to her family.[3]...
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I saw the video of her final moments on the news at the time... :(
 
#43
doktorfeelgood said:
The way things are going over there now, it won't be long before somebody does this. He's really feeling the pinch now and I only worry that with his $32 billion, yep that's a "B" word, that he doesn't keep spending such insane amounts of money to mercenaries to kill his own people as a last ditch effort to keep any semblance of control that he thinks he has. )-(
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When that money goes, he'll go. The army will turn and he'll have to either die where he stands or run to Chavez.
 
#45
Been watching the live coverage here all week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

I saw the speeches given so far by Gaddafi and a son of his. These creeps are so out of it and irrational they manage to make Mubarak and Ben Ali look positively dignified and reasonable in comparison. They're also totally vicious and seem hell-bent on pulling the whole country down with them. One great concern is that they'll be resorting to chemical weapons yet. Can't help thinking the sooner someone in their own camp takes them out, the better.
 

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