Good, eliminating those @ssholes is a positive step for the Arab Spring Movement. They are saving themselves a lot of bother. No Gitmo, No politicizing the fight over Gitmo, no stupid show trials, no allowing the bad guys to use the court proceedings as a soapbox, and all it costs is a few extra bullets.

Eliminate the @ssholes so the next radical @ssholes can take over. Gotta love that Arab Spring.

@devil's son: How are the jihadists/Islamists from Misrata better than the secular Gaddafi family who cooperated with us on the war against al-Qaeda? Know your sh*t before you spill out garbage.

they fought and won their freedom so let them struggle on their own. freedom is a bitch when starting out

@opp: Freedom like the Islamic Revolution in Iran back in '79? Freedom like the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan back in the '80s including Mullah Omar, leader of Taliban, and Osama bin Laden? How's that working out?

That picture of Moammar Gadhafi in the sunglasses makes me think one thing: Moammar gangnam style...gangnam style.

have some dignity and respect for the dead

Regardless.

straight outta compton, IF YOU knew your sh!t you would know that they all aren't Jihadists or Islamists some are but those currently forming the Libyan government are not. Just like everyone from Compton isn't a Blood or Crip. They are taking steps to stop the take over of the revolution that deposed one dictator for another. They might lose but they might win.

Iran's example and Egypt's recent election don't inspire a lot of confidence. What we need right now is to set up a puppet secular regime consisting entirely of Libyan-Americans and arrest all jihadists and execute them now but then all of that would be unnecessary if we stayed out of Libya like we are doing for Iran's puppet Syria (a far worse regime than Libya) and Bahrain's sexist regime

He fought like a man and still going with a amputated leg. Unlike his deranged father who cried like a little B before the capped him in the street. In the end two scurges removed from the earth............

Somehow, someway, this has to be Obama's fault.............

Somehow, someway, the UPS man made one too many deliveries while your daddy was at work..........

My daddy was the UPS man........

@straight outta compton no respect when alive none when dead!!

Pure Evil sub humans do not deserve "dignity" after they die.

I am glad the youngest son is dead. Maybe he'll meet his Father with Allah, the Saintly G-d. What's Allah going to do with all the Devil's who have recently gone to H---------------killed by The Western Government.

Apparently, Ghaddafi did not die the way it was portrayed. He had a Bayonet put in a place of your imagination. Legs torn off, and tortured.

@Nf: You do realize the people who killed our ambassador is not Gaddafi loyalists but jihadist nutjobs that we helped right? I got more respect for Gaddafi than the Misrata "god is great" chanting Islamists who lynched him in front of the world. Those are the same element who killed our ambassador not the more secular/progressive Gaddafi regime

I am not sure what difference this makes but I was under the imprecision he died a year or so ago, is MSN that slow? how long will it take for his news agency to inform us that we died in a nuclear attack by Iran because Obama failed to act on time?...---...---... Don't forget there is a meteor shower tonight.

Other then being Ghadafi's son, did he commit murder or done something wrong? was he like his father? What he actually fighting to overthrow the new government? I'm asking because honestly I didn't know him, and have no idea what kind of person he was.

and the USA needs to keep our boys out of this sheet hole

No different than they have been for thousands of years. Kill or be killed tribal warfare. Leave them alone to kill one another.

He fought like a man and still going with a amputated leg. Unlike his deranged father who cried like a little B before the capped him in the street. In the end two scurges removed from the earth............

Proving what? Both are dead. Are you promoting the ignorant chest thumping machismo seen here in our cities that result in random shootings because of perceived "disrespect"? Just more ignorance. Useless piles of flesh the world is better off without.

straight outta compton: I'm not sure anyone has the smoking gun to say the jihadist nutjobs who did our consulate were supported by us during the Lybian conflict, perhaps they came later. I'm not saying you are wrong, but do we have the evidence.

And why should we have respect for Ghadafi now that he is dead? One must earn respect while alive to be given it in death.

I am not sure what difference this makes but I was under the imprecision he died a year or so ago, is MSN that slow?

If you had read the article instead of just the headline you could have saved yourself asking a question that was answered in the article.

throw ALL the rubbish out!!! with yesterdays other garbage----fish heads, dog poop, the remains of yesterday's dinner, the day's newspaper.

after all, it is all the same. junk, garbage, trash, refuse, et al.

maybe God can/will sort it all out. we certainly can't.

perhaps God will have mercy on his soul. we don't. we won't. we don't want to.

adios, khamis!! perhaps you will make it to the next level. but you will most likely come back as an ant! or a fly. maybe a flea!! or even a microbe!!!

seems he is starting over. and well he should.

as are many in recent news from that part of the world.

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meanwhile, the young tunesian man who had his head cut off his body, because he became a christian, who faced his fate without flinching---- it was truly inspiring!!! not sure i would have been as brave. or resolute in my convictions. it was horrible to watch the video, but at the same time it showed true conviction and total faith----very inspiring!! a very moving example of faith at work.

when it came time to put his money where his mouth was this kid showed us just exactly what that means. as i said, very inspiring.

VERY INSPIRING!!!!!!!!!!!

Christians don't need to do the grunt work of Jesus Christ. but perhaps mohamed needs the help of mere mortals. which seems to sum up the whole argument. doesn't it?

This democracy movement across the Arab world is only hurting the US. Once in power there's no telling what roll the US will take in them. So far it hasn't look good for the US especially having the commander in chief apologize for every little incident. That makes the US look weak, but then again that's exactly what our commander in chief wants.

What a bunch of morons. If you deny sovereignty to other countries sooner or later sovereignty will be denied to us. You wonder why the arab countries hate us. How about 70 years of oppression. We just killed 600,000 arab children in the last 8 years. DO you really think that ANY PEOPLE could ignore that?? Irak had nothing to do with 9-11, they had no terrorist bases, they didnt gas the Kurds,( CIA says absolutely it was IRAN), THEY HAD NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION EVEN THOUGH WE THE USA SOLD THEM GAS TO FIGHT THE IRANIANS, AND EVEN THOUGH GEORGE W. BUSH TRIED TO HAVE WMD's PLANTED IN IRAK and got 50 mercenaries killed in the process. Dont believe me? Ask the Aggricultural Dept to produce the payment records. There are people in the Agg dept that tried to come forward but Bush jr had them gagged by the courts.

So let me surmise.

1) Irak had nothing to do with 9-11 (as per CIA documents).

2) Irak had NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

3) Irak had no terrorist training bases.

4) Irak did not gas the Kurds ( CIA immediately showed proof it was Iran)

5) Irak only invaded Kuwait after our ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam in a face to face meeting that it was OK to do so.

6) If you look at any pre WW2 map you will clearly see that Kuwait was ALWAYS part of Irak. Stolen by the British during WW2 for their oil.

7) The Kuwaiti Parliment was ready to vote to become once again part of Irak when the royal family padlocked the doors of Parliment and disolved it. Does that sound like what you heard from Fox ABC NBC CBS CNN etc?

8) And for those who need further reasoning, Saddam Hussein built more hospitals, more universities, and gave arab women more rights than any other arab nation. Now you know why the Iraki people loved him and continue to fight to the death. We didnt win anything and the oil that we are stealing from them will be cut off as soon as we leave.

We have gone from the most loved nation in the world to the most hated. Have you ever given any thought as to how that has happened. I will give you one clue. November 22 1963.

So when we kill 600,000 children in order to force the arabs to do what we want them to do, Madeleine Albright said that killing 600,000 children was ok to do in order to achieve success in the middle east.

Your an American. When did we change into baby killers? Answer.... It started in Waco. You didnt complain enough so it became policy. God will punish us for this.

sorry to say but he will be dust just like you and me, so leave god out of it

Opp45646456: You leave your beliefs out of it and maybe everyone else will too.

There is more to the picture then you think. or don't think. when you can explain the universe then talk to me, till then stay to yourself, you don't know squat.

@D Buck: Wow, chill out a bit. Hey, explain the universe to us so we can get on with commenting on this article. Thanks, waiting!

WOW!!! Looks like the @!$%#s are out in full force today.

Sorry, but wasn't Gaddafi part of that Pan Am flight over Lockerby? Didn't know he helped us with al-Qaeda? When did he become "one of our friends"? Just don't know where you are coming from? Please enlighten me as to what I'm missing as I don't know and never heard he was "one of our friends". Just wondering.

You obviously don't follow the news much. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Muammar's son Britain-educated (London School of Economics) who is currently jailed by Zintan militia, negotiated with Tony Blair and George Bush and voluntarily gave up Libya's chemical weapon program, cooperated in the war against al-Qaeda by handing over lists of Libyan al-Qaeda sympathizers to the CIA for waterboarding and torture, provided compensation for Lockerbie victims and also opened up Libya's oil to the Big Oil companies. Muammar Gaddafi was in the process of being rehabilitated in the international community and recognized Israel's right to exist. He only had 1 wife and his daughter is a lawyer. His sons mingled with our celebrities, had Jewish girlfriends, and embraced our culture. They also contributed to Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007.

Probably so they could have a safe place to run to.
Nobody at that level does anything out of altruistic reasons. (nobody,dictators or presidents or mullahs or CEOs or whatever the hell else they call themselves).

Problem is if the U.S. "let Gaddafi massacre all the Islamists/Jihadists/so-called freedom fighters ", there wouldn't be an enemy left to fight a war with AND WAR IS MONEY.....BIG MONEY! The U.S. needs an enemy and so what seems crazy ( killing world leaders that fight Jihadist ) soon makes perfect sense when you understand that our leaders are motivated by greed and war is big business for the global elite. Patriotism and religious dogma is just food fed to the sucker masses.

@are you really that dumb: i used to think it was all conspiracy theories but the more I read and get informed about world events, the more that seem to be true. what a joke sending our troops and diplomats into harm's way and topple regimes that were cooperating with us and brutally lynch the leaders just to help the military industrial complex, big oil, and haliburton make a profit

That Gaddafi was turning into a regular angel, wasn't he? Too bad the other, other, other bad guys got him, eh? I'd like to have that .44 snubbie they were waving in his face right before the camera panned down to the ground...or even the last frames of that video. Anyway, he enjoyed a lot of joyful years that a lot of other people on the receiving end of his "kindness" didn't. What really pissed the people off and got him eliminated was his gaddafi-sheened pincurled hair and his awful wardrobe. He shoulda opted for some sensible jeans and some cool t-shirts...."Live to Ride-Ride to Live"..you know, that sort of thing. All his son did wrong was play army like any kid does, only he was using live humans for target practice with heavy weapons. Really bad form in the civilized world. If you feel bad about it you can always send contributions instead of flowers to his memorial fund...which provides basic scholarships to young disadvantaged terrorists.

straight outta compton: Your 6.5 post ticks off objective facts. What you have not addressed is the coersion the West, mainly GB and the US, applied to Gadafi in order to get him to cooperate. What were Gadafi's motives? To avoid our wrath, to open oil exports to the West, to get that 500 pound gorilla out of his living room so that he could be left alone to do as he wished in Lybia and on the continent of Africa.

Let's not try to paint such an altruistic picture of the man and his son, that's a bit naive to me.

DANNY, he became one of your 'friends' when condolezza went a calling. guess that would be back in the bush era. if not earlier.

and of course dick had something to do with this. after all he was running things. wasn't he!!????? seems 'W' couldn't keep up with things. seems the beer and cocaine just could not be overcome, without the help of big dick c.

and neither could our economy!

both total disasters, imho!!

but where are 'W' and dc now????? they should be in front to the world court. pleading for their lives! again, imho!!

george mcgovern died today. when ALL of the bushes and dc and company pass from the scene, the sooner the better!!!

FYI he is gonna win in November so get over it already! Romney is a douche anyway, constantly flip flopping. What a mess he is.

Eatin up with jealousy

Eaten up with reality.....Obama will have 4 more years....but you idiots will still be crying about one thing or another....it never stops....Clinton had a SURPLUS and that still wasn't enough for you commies, uh I mean Repuklicans......

Still believe the surplus bull@!$%# do ya?

Well geez....let me see....since its actually a fact nobody really disputes I'm going to go with yes....any other stupid questions? It's ok.....you must have 'Romnesia".

ricardo,,,why aren't you quoteing the polls every other post as you have before the 2nd debate? Just wondering.

Obama won't go back to Chi-town, he'll go to Hawaii and live out his golden years on the golden beaches with his golden family at the expense of the taxpayers paying his golden pension...which will start in January when everyone else will be falling off the "fiscal cliff".

Speaking of "Romnesia"...what do you call Obama's malady...he's forgotten the whole time period between '08 and '12... He's even under the delusion that he's been leading the country.

I like this constant nattering about who will occupy the White House come 20 January. Hey, you all are backing your man, and that's fine, but this is a close one. I cast my vote on the 23rd of September, backing my fella, but I'm not sure if he will make it. This is a nail biter, what will decide it now is making sure you don't turn over the ball and can hit a three pointer tomorrow night - and then not turn over the ball in the last minute.

This race is thrilling. Wish we had it every year - what an adreneline rush!!!!!!!!

exactly. most of the dumbasses who commented here don't know squat about the middle east and just repeat the media bs. they don't even know the difference between secular vs jihadists or shiite/alawites vs sunni or arab libyans vs black libyans or any of the tribal warfare like Misrata/Benghazi vs Warfalla/Bani Walid/Tripoli/Sirte/Tuareg or royalists from the East (Benghazi) vs Gaddafi loyalists from the west (Tripoli)

but the repub has been saying the middle east was bad and need to spend money to keep them in line??? What is it not, the old middle east or new??? either way they fought for their freedom and let them struggle throw it with us on the sidelines smiling

Fought for their freedom? Are you kidding me? Without that NATO no fly zone and our troops bombing Gaddafi's convoy, Gaddafi would be alive and took out the jihadists garbage in Benghazi and those "god is great" chanting nutjobs from Misrata that lynched Gaddafi in front of the whole world.

@straight outta compton: You do not know anywhere near as much about the Middle East as you feign to know in your posts. Your posts are superficial, taken straight from the headlines. Ever been there, like in spending three years there? Ever live in the vicinity, like twenty years in the vicinity? Didn't think so.

I applaud your interest in the region and foreign affairs in general. I would caution you to not be so condescending and derisive in your posts as to call some dumb asses. One need not be a foreign policy guru or an expert on the ME to voice one's opinion. It proves to me that average Americans are paying attention. Where are you at on the ladder of knowledge regarding the ME? Some of us can take you to task, tread carefully!

keep the politics out of it. never should had helped the jihadists and gotten involved in Libya over Bahrain or Syria. mccain wanted boots on the ground last year and visited benghazi and called these religious extremists/terrorists nutjobs "patriots". both parties are the same

I do not care what someone did in the past, when a dictator starts killing civilians they are asking to be assassinated. It is how all dictatorships end in the end anyway, they step on one too many faces and a revolution ensues and the dictator is removed from power.

That the US would back any dictator that willingly killed their own citizens is deplorable. If we are truly trying to set an example for the rest of the World to follow we have to walk the walk and not just talk bull@!$%# while we back sadistic Governments.

Mubarak, Gaddafi, and now Assad all deserve(d) to be overthrown. The people did not want to live under their rule any longer but they would not step down. These are their countries who are we to tell them what kind of Government they want? If they want a democracy then they will fight for it just as our Forefathers did and many will likely die just as our ancestors did to attain freedom and liberty.

That is part of the requirement for attaining such liberty, if you are not willing to die for it then you do not deserve it.

@Geowil: What about the sexist king of bahrain? When the people demanded freedom last year, our sexist Saudi friends went in there to help the Bahrain King massacre the peaceful demonstrators. Double standard much?

Another victory for obama administration!

Yup....one less obstacle for his islamist pals in Libya.

so you like the "god is great" chanting jihadists over the secular gaddafi family? don't blame the government when terrorists from Libya pull another 9/11 within 10 years

Straight,

I will take anyone who will not be killing their citizens. It is not our country, we have no say in what they do with it even if it risks our national security. The USA has never been the World police and in my opinion we should never start being such a gestapo-nation.

If it is the will of Libyans then we have no place to tell them to do otherwise. If it is not then they will have another civil war and the Government will change hands again and again until they find what they are looking for. It may not be pretty but it is the reality of the matter, stabilization only comes at the cost of lives.

@Geowil: First of all, this is a tribal warfare not a "popular" revolution. It's funny how our government is fighting al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Yemen yet supporting al-Qaeda in Libya and Egypt and helped Egypt elected an Islamist. This is Khomeini's revolution all over again. We turned a blind eye on Darfur, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and Bahrain's demonstrators in the Arab Spring last year so this is no humanitarian intervention. And let's face it, the rebels wouldn't have a chance in hell without that UN no fly zone. Gaddafi's forces were surrounding Benghazi the day before the no fly zone. Dulles once said the United States doesn't have friends only interests. I fail to see how it is in our interest to lynch the whole secular Gaddafi clan who had a common interest with us in weeding out the jihadists in Benghazi and Misrata and al-Qaeda member Abdulhakim Belhaj. How does this enhance US security and prevent another 9/11? It takes an animal to control a country full of animals and I rather have a secular animal with only 1 wife than the animals who want sharia law and sexism. We should had let Gaddafi took out the garbage.

It has taken nearly a quarter of a century to track down and kill some but not all of the Muslim cockroaches and their immediate families and associates in Libya and elsewhere who were responsible for the explosive device on Pan Am Flight 103 which when it detonated in midair caused the deaths of 259 people, most of whom died when the Pan Am "Clipper Maid of the Seas" (Boeing 747) crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

The key bit of information is that when you attack America, our people, and our stuff, we will get you no matter how long it takes and no matter how we decide to do it, covertly or overtly, where the general rule is that the longer it takes, the wider the net, which is necessary for the betterment and enlightenment of others, for sure . . .

For sure! :-D

Don't know how long before someone takes credit for it but it seems strange he goes down after how long ,a little more than a month since the embassy attack !!

his dad only has 1 wife unlike our allies in saudi arabia, qatar, and kuwait. gaddafi's daughter is a lawyer. he let women go to school and was a progressive in the arab world. get your fact straight. compare him to the "god is great" chanting jihadists from misrata who lynched gaddafi in front of the world and tell me which regime is better for women's right?

Libya was in a civil war....we should not intervene in civil wars....just like we're not intervening in Syria. Let it play out.

Yet we got involved last year and bombed Gaddafi's convoy so he would get killed. Gaddafi's forces were sieging Benghazi the day the no-fly zone was passed. We should had let him take out the garbage instead of taking the wrong side. Maybe Chris Stevens would still be alive.

his dad only has 1 wife unlike our allies in saudi arabia

Polygamy is a violation of divine law to my knowledge, but a far less serious crime than the rape of a chaste woman. I believe it was this reason his father was killed. And the way he met his death with a knife in his rectum was probably an act of divine retribution for his toleration of rape.

That's why you will never see Saudi Arabia's king deposed in such a manner. He runs a just kingdom that does not condone rape. Polygamy isn't always a violation of someone's sexual rights or will.

Some of the guys in the Old Testament practiced polygamy, and one of the New Testament authors said that a leader had to be blameless the husband of one wife. But I don't think they were ever killed for this violation.

However there was a story in the Old Testament of a rapist in the House of Israel meeting his death by half-brother, and if you condone rape like Gaddafi did then you might as well be a rapist.

Exactly. Or why not let the oil-rich Arab league sort their own business instead of wasting taxpayers' money? If Syria needs to be divided into an Assad-controlled Alawite state and another Sunni state, so be it.

@straight outta compton: Quit running your mouth so much and read what people are saying. Who died and deemed you Newsvine's Middle East expert? Go back and read my posts to you and the posts other people have sent you. No, I said READ them! You are simply spouting off visceral responses.