Libyan Dictator’s Final Hours
Christopher Reuter
Der Spiegel
11/1/2011
How did Moammar Gadhafi die? The men who witnessed his last hours and the doctor who issued his death certificate have helped to provide insights into the dictator’s final moments.
…At about 8:30 a.m., Aoued sounded the alarm when he saw dozens of SUVs approaching from District 2. A short time later, a missile fired from an American drone struck the first vehicle in the convoy. Rebels were attacking from all sides but were hesitant to use heavy weapons, because they feared for the safety of their own fighters. “I really wanted to join in the fighting right away,” Aoued recalls, “but I wasn’t allowed to, because I was on duty until 9 a.m.” His friend Siraj al-Himali was standing guard in a substation located between the silo and two concrete pipes. After traveling a few hundred meters, Gadhafi’s convoy finally came to a stop at the wall of the substation. At about 11 a.m., a French jet bombarded the convoy, which was now in disarray. Gadhafi’s Toyota Land Cruiser was slightly damaged and he was already bleeding from the head after the attack, his security chief Mansour Dau — who was arrested — later told the New York Times.
About 15 men, including Gadhafi and Dau, proceeded on foot past an empty house to two concrete pipes which were installed to protect the road from flooding during heavy rains. Himali’s group captured three soldiers, and one of them said that Gadhafi had been with them. The fighters, excited by now, spread out until they head shouts coming from the other end of the tunnel.
Himali ran toward the voices and saw that six fighters had dragged Gadhafi out of the drainage pipe. Aoued followed behind. Umran Shaaban, a young fighter, was the first one to recognize the dictator and took away the weapon he was carrying. At first Gadhafi, blooding and dressed in a khaki outfit, stood up and began to stammer, asking what was the matter, and whether anything was the matter at all. “He seemed completely disoriented, as if he couldn’t understand anything. But he was still standing,” Aoued recalls, adding that Gadhafi’s captors had held onto him for a few seconds before striking him. His head was bleeding. Aoued grabbed one of Gadhafi’s brown socks as a souvenir, and Himali held onto one of his black shoes….
Read the entire article at Der Spiegel.
H/T Weasel Zippers
Related: What the Heck is Going on in Libya Under Obama?
…our American reputation has been besmirched. We made a deal with Gadhafi after 9/11 that if he gave up his weapons of mass destruction, including his nascent nuclear weapons program, and he agreed to reform his old ways, i.e. stop being a sponsor of state terrorism, then we would welcome him back into the world wide community of nations, and we would resume normal diplomatic relations with him.
Does supporting a rebellion in Libya and bombing Colonel Gadhafi’s military seem like normal diplomatic relations to you? He gave up his WMDs, and he stopped sponsoring terrorism, and he is dead today because he trusted us. His death may be no great loss to the world, but we should value our country’s reputation…
Update: At Atlas Shrugs Pamela Geller has a stomach-turning post about the retribution that is now taking place in Libya. There is video, but we warn it is horrifying.
Obama and his proxy, NATO, ended airstrikes in Libya after Qaddafi’s brutal sodomy and murder by pro-sharia jihadists. Obama has maintained air patrols. The seven-month billion-dollar campaign destroyed 5,900 military targets through 9,600 strike sorties. 30,000 shoulder-to-arm missiles have been looted, many showing up in the hands of the Jew-hating ghazis in Gaza. So what has Obama’s war wrought?…
Secretary Clinton has no business celebrating any of this. After reading Geller’s post, we think you will agree.
