It is being reported that Gadhafi’s son Sair al Arab Gadhafi was killed in a NATO airstrike and that Gadhafi was in the house when the hit took place:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/74114/gaddafi’s-son-killed-in-airstrike-libyan-government
More details:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/30/saif-al-arab-gaddafi-libya-killed_n_855920.html
Tonight on CNN I heard John King say, “Muammar Gaddafi is now using bombs meant to maim and kill people.” As opposed to what, bombs meant to give Swedish massage?!? This whole Libyan situation has gotten beyond ridiculous and I’m sick of the US government, NATO and the United Nations. I never believed the US wanted to do anything about Libya and laid out why in a piece I posted several weeks ago.
So why are in Libya, simply look at who fired the first shot, the French. The French were the first to recognize the rebels and drove the UN and NATO into this fight, why? Well, it’s as simple as why we went into Iraq. We went into Iraq to protect American oil company interests and the French led us into Libya to protect French oil interests.
http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Oil/8578907
So, let’s face reality, Gaddafi is a criminal, a murderer specifically, we know for a fact that he is a terrorist.
http://zdeaconblue.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/why-we-will-do-nothing-about-libya/
So let’s stop playing games, if we want him out of power then take him out. I know, it will make all of our other dictator/partner/oil suppliers nervous if we do so. God forbid we should make oil hoarding dictators nervous, it might cause gas prices to go up. Either go in and remove Gaddafi by any means and quickly, or get the hell out of Libya!
Unless you are living under a rock and if so thanks for coming out to read this blog, you probably know that the most recent of the countries to be having a little revolt is Libya. A country run by the ever highly entertaining, dangerous, insane bastard by the name of Muammar Gaddafi or Khadhafi, it seems like each news organization picks a new way to spell his name. The link below will give you a little background on this madman and his past atrocities which include sponsoring the terrorist who destroyed a flight over Lockerbie, Scotland which included killing one of my friend’s siblings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaddafi
Without a doubt Gaddafi is a bastard who in seeing what was happening to Saddam Hussein decided to give up his WMD programs in order to pacify the Bush Administration. He’s insane, not stupid. He bought himself a place outside of the spotlight and stayed tucked away in his little corner until the recent uprising. Now, his people, seeing the successes in Tunisia and Egypt decided it was time to take the tyrant down. However Libya is not Egypt and Gaddafi has not been above hiring mercenaries, killing civilians or using airpower and his military to subdue his citizens.
So today both the EU ministers and the NATO Alliance folks sat around and debated what they might do. Of course they will do nothing without a mandate by the United Nations. The fact is, that by time they get around to seriously considering doing anything Gaddafi will quite literally have crushed the opposition. Libya is small potatoes in the oil business, a small country that accounts for only 1-2% of the world’s oil supply so in the end, unless the French oil companies doing business there can truly pressure NATO, we will watch the Libyan people get crushed. Gaddafi and his family know this and they are so sure that they are brutally bombing, torturing and killing their citizens to put down this revolt. As usual, in order to see what drives the events of history, we need look no further than the financial impact on the military industrial complex and Libya just doesn’t register a large enough hit.
