Moammar Gadhafi: In Your Grocer’s Freezer
Dictator's Death Continues to Be Shrouded in Mystery Amid Conflicting Stories
Spirited away to a secret location yesterday, Moammar Gadhafi’s body has emerged in an unlikely place, on display in the freezer at a Misrata shopping center, the latest move in a farcical 48 hour period that started with Gadhafi being captured and then turning up dead shortly thereafter.
His burial “postponed” for the purposes of investigation, Gadhafi is instead stowed in a produce cooler, with residents lining up with cameras to get their photos taken with their slain dictator.
But how was he killed? One of the Misrata rebels has posted a video claiming he did it, showing off what he claims is Gadhafi’s wedding ring and bloody jacket. He says he shot Gadhafi twice, including in the head, and that he died a half hour later.
He also threw the capture story into even further doubt, rejecting both the spiderhole and convoy stories and claiming he was just walking around Sirte with some children when he found and killed him.
Gadhafi’s killing is also now being questioned from a legal perspective, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying Gadhafi was a prisoner of war after his capture and his killing violated the Geneva Conventions.
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R.C.
October 22nd, 2011 at 12:12 am
Are these barbarians supposed to be the new face of Libya? God help that country!
El Tonno
October 22nd, 2011 at 5:21 am
Well, Mussolini ended up in similar a gore-or-rama.
Wootie Berster
October 22nd, 2011 at 12:44 pm
It was ever thus. One of the rather large number of problems with dictatorship is the question of the transference of power. Classically it ends this way. Perhaps that is appropriate. After a lifetime of repugnant luxury maybe its fitting to end in a sewer. We are reminded he was offered many chances to leave quietly but rejected them all, believing his hold over the people would protect him. Hubris.
Hubris. Its real. Its fatal. It meshes with the mysterious will of the universe. The Empire should study this object lesson.
But it won't. That too is written.
Ken
October 22nd, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Mohmar in my grocer's freezer?
What is this, a new Ben and Jerry's flavor???
And maybe it's Herman Cain's favorite?? ? As I recall he had a tif with Ben and Jerry's because they stopped making his favorite flavor so here's a neocon substitute flavor!