Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
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October 20, 2011 at 7:16pm
At last I can sit down at my computer and say, IT’S OVER.
I suppose the definitive biography is being written already. It might help us understand how the supposed reformer who started out smart and apparently sane ended up like this, possibly through spiralling mental illness. Looking back, he can’t have been psychologically sound to begin with.
He was straight out of another era, the closest parallel being a mad, sadistic Roman emperor.
Amnesty International has announced its concern because footage broadcast on Arab stations showed him captured alive, and now it has been announced that he’s dead.
I don’t think that’s going to be worrying too many people.
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“I don’t think that’s going to be worrying too many people.”
But we know at least a few (two in particular) who will be.
Sammut the Gaddafi accountant, perhaps? I hardly think so.
Have they found KMB yet?
He’s working on Gaddafi’s obituary.
Hmieg.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the Mintoff household this evening.
What about the Muscat household? I’ll bet the air is blue tonight. The future ‘First Lady’ watching her world dissolve in a ‘Clintonesque’ episode.
Joseph and Sabrina “Kemm nixtieqek tmur mat-times” must have orchestrated this killing of Ghaddafi to deviate attention from their story. ha ha.
…and before joinng the army, he used to be a folk singer: http://www.listal.com/viewimage/740882
[Daphne – Yes, such a strong resemblance I must say. Kevin, you’re so bloody boring.]
I think he’s so bloody bored, that’s the problem.
Would have preferred if they simply arrested him and let him be tried by the international tribunal. I did not like the ending at all. A lot could have been discovered if he was put on trial. but he’s now gone and may he remain where he is forever.
[Daphne – You don’t discover things by putting him on trial, but by preparing the case. That can still be done, purely for the purpose you say. Gaddafi doesn’t speak. Haven’t you ever watched an interview with him?]
You didn’t like the ending. Many didn’t like the beginning.
And now he’s gone.
Good.
✓ Saddam Hussein
✓ Osama Bin Laden
✓ Gaddafi
☐ Mintoff…
Too far. Mintoff was bad, but nowhere near any of them.
It’s all relative. He screwed the best 16 years of my working and family life. So yes, he’s in the league.