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Thread #140976   Message #3242475
Posted By: Sawzaw
21-Oct-11 - 10:29 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Moammar Ghadaffi (1942-2011)
Subject: RE: Obit: Moammar Ghadaffi (1942-2011)
No trial no report to file. He got what he gave.

How could Ghadaffi think it would end any other way? Like Saddam, he could have walked away and avoided it but he did not.

What do the Ghadaffi supporters here think should have happened? What would the outcome have been other than death?

Even Amos supports sunmmary justice.

Let this be a warning to Assad and Saleh, don't do what Saddam did if you don't want it to happen to you.



Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- A day after the death of Muammar Qaddafi, the United Nations Security Council that authorized bombing over Libya plans action against another despot clinging to power: Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh.

A vote is expected today on a proposed resolution calling on Saleh to implement a Gulf Cooperation Council-brokered deal, under which he would resign and transfer power to his deputy in return for immunity from prosecution for his family and inner circle.

The killing of the Libyan dictator yesterday resonated among the thousands of Yemenis who took to the streets of the capital Sana'a to renew calls for the end of Saleh's 33-year rule.

"The end of Qaddafi has given us a strong boost that regardless of how much time our revolt will take, we will win and the fate of Saleh will be like that of Qaddafi," Maher al- Haidari, a protester, said in an interview.

Almost a year after the Arab Spring got under way, three autocrats have fallen. Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, fled to Saudi Arabia. Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was carried out in stretcher and placed in an iron cage to stand trial. Qaddafi was killed as he attempted to escape from his hometown of Sirte.

Two authoritarian regimes facing widespread international condemnation remain standing.

Yemen and Syria

In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has carried out a deadly crackdown against protesters that the UN estimates has killed more than 3,000 since March.

In Yemen, there have been protests almost daily since January to demand the removal of the president, a U.S. ally who has held power for more than three decades. Saleh returned to Yemen on Sept. 23 after three months in Saudi Arabia, where he received medical treatment following a rocket attack in the capital.

He has asked for increased guarantees from Gulf nations, the U.S. and Europe before agreeing to hand over power.