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Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters, file
Khamis Gaddafi is shown in a photograph found at Fatih University in June 2011.
Khamis Gadhafi, youngest son of slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was reported dead Saturday, exactly a year after his father died.
There were conflicting reports about whether Khamis Gadhafi was captured alive but gravely wounded after a gunbattle in Bani Walid, a pro-Gadhafi stronghold where fighting has raged for three days. And Khamis Gadhafi has been reported killed several times, including in an August 2011 NATO airstrike.
Al Arabiya news agency reported that sources told it Khamis Gadhafi was severely wounded and arrested but that he later died. However, Al Arabiya also said, Mohamed al-Magarief, the head of Libya’s democratically elected General National Congress, told the agency the late dictator's son was killed during the clashes.
A Libyan journalist told NBC News that Khamis Gadhafi was captured while fleeing in a convoy. His right leg had been amputated, but it was not clear if that was a result of recent fighting or a previous injury.
Dr. Mustafa Abushagur, sacked as Libya’s prime minister last week, tweeted Saturday that Khamis Gadhafi’s body was taken to a Misrata hospital, the Russian Times reported.
The Guardian of London reported that a statement by the Libyan national congress spokesman, Omar Hamdan, said the 28-year-old was killed "in battle" but gave no further details.
The reports came after heavy fighting between the pro-Gadhafi garrison in Bani Walid and militias allied to the Libyan government.
The seventh son of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, Khamis Gadhafi is known as one of the most hardline of Gadhafi's sons.
His reported death prompted wild celebrations in Misrata, Libya's third city, where fireworks and car horns filled the night, the Russian Times reported. He was reviled there for atrocities allegedly perpetrated by the 32nd Brigade, a special unit he formed after studying in a Russian military academy, the Russian Times said.
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The reports came the same day of reports that Moammar Gadhafi's chief spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, had been captured.
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On Saturday, Magarief said not all areas of Libya had been liberated, Al Jazeera news agency reported.
"The campaign to liberate the country has not been fully completed," Magarief said on state television.
"Bani Walid's misfortune is that it has become a sanctuary for a large number of outlaws and anti-revolutionaries and mercenaries," Magarief said.
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This is what happens to your family, your friends and your country if you try to make your own gold backed money.
youtube.com/watch?v=NG8PzfJCv_8
Islam sucks.
Good.
What is it about this hell hole of a sand trap that would cause anyone to come back? 29 years old. They stole enough for a hundred lifetimes. Why would you come back? Mental. Just nuts.
ego ...
Buh bye...@!$%#.
Wanten to look like Johnny Depp
One less...
CEO's have been running this country and our involvement in foreign wars from the sidelines for decades. Look at the CEO who literally had his hand up Ronald Reagans ass like the puppet master, telling him at a press conference to wrap it up now! It's all in the name of PROFITS, RESOURCES and just plain wanting to be in everybody else business and to control their BUSINESS thus lives. All presidents are forced in some way to play the game but some try to minimized the damage, by ending the wars others started and by trying not to enter other wars being instigated by others. Now you have the Repubs and their blind followers trying foolishly, but will fail, to put an actual CEO, not since Hoover, in as President... What Stupidity!
reality,,yes that wussy democrat policy of if we give them more money, hold hands(and other things) with them, sit in a circle and chant change, chhaaannnngge, it will work out just fine. It sure worked in Libya!
When will they learn when you try to deal with a mentality of "if I do not kill you my son will and if he does not, his son will", you are in a losing argument already! Just make a stinkin parking lot outta the place!
democratic growing pains.
excatly; the American revolution was roses when it end either. There were scores to settle with those that supported the crown and those profited from the war.
Typical. Don't forget what the truth told us many years ago. How we treat others, so will be done to us. Good luck all you aggressive and evil people, you are all going down really hard. All those who love war and go after their enemies for revenge, it will come right back to you, probably not on this earth. So sleep well bullies and punks, people who think might makes right, Jesus basically told us that karma exists.
@Carol: And what do you propose Good Two Shoes? How should the government defend your safety and security against fanatics while you sit in front of your computer and warn us about our evil ways. How about you bake cookies and take them over to the jihadists? And if these fruit cakes ever get their hands on chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, don't ask the pretty please not to use them against your country and home town. And just so you know, they would have such weapons already if fought terrorists with baked goods.
So, Carol, off to the kitchen in Xanadu and get us Americans armed for conflict.
see ya later, bye
"You Reap What You Sow." Like father, like son. Thank GOD the younger Died younger. Spared the world more of his father's poluted legacy.
I suppose that someone, somewhere actually cares about the demise of this worthless spawn of a murderous dictator, but I sure as hell don't.
Quick Obama send them 50 billion dollars and bow down to them. Then they will be our friend.
sniff. sniff.
Not uprising, but NATO ousted Moammar Gadhafi.
Not uprising, but NATO ousted Moammar Gadhafi.
I think the phrase "lead from behind" was chanted by McCain and company because we did not get out in front of this - and yet, they continue to find blame. It's a no win for this administration no matter how hard they try to keep the American military out of another conflict.
@CommonSense: EXACTLY!!!!
I don't think that the problem of Islamic fundamentalists being voted into power after this revolution is beyond our control. Even the Iranians were thoroughly fed up with their Islamic fundamentalists state within about five years of their coming to authority. They have only maintained their prominent position by acting far more barbarically with their secret police than the Shah ever did with SAVAK, his own secret police, and through election fraud. The Iranian Islamic revolution is going to go the way of the Shah eventually, and the Iranians will establish a more democratically inclined government. It sucks that we aren't able to just snap our fingers and make it so at our own whim, but the truth is that we must allow them time to make their own mistakes. Then any changes will be at their own collective will and not something imposed by outsiders, which people tend to resent just like we would resent foreign interference.
best damn comment I heard thus far on this blog!
@Merlin: True! This will take time. It took nearly fifty years to get through the Cold War without a WWIII, and we did. It took two generations to get Latin America beyond dictators willing to host the Soviets, and we did. It's been 23 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and move eastern Europe toward democarcy, and we are doing that. The lesson here, contrary to what most people believe or think of the United States: We do know how to expolit patience when it really matters and is the best strategy. Hungary - '56, Czechoslovakia - '68, Poland - '80. Those countries accepted their fate in those days, but knew we would have their six when we knew the time was right.
Did Ghaddafi in his final years remind anyone else of Rev Jim Jones when he was wearing his shades?
now that you mention it ... yeah, he does.
2Merlin: Oh yeah, said that many times. Good catcgh.
Just keep us out of it, AS IN EVERY OTHER CIVIL WAR, and let them kill each other. We do not belong in these centuries-old clashes for they are not our business --- no different than we would allow some other country to send their armies over here to settle our differences. IT'S NOT OUR BUSINESS --- PERIOD.
With regards to this event ---- oh well. I am sure this Earth is a better place without him.
Move on with your liberation, people.
It seems sad at the moment with all the killing and espionage and double dealing and corruption and graft..but it will all be worth it when Hollywood starts churning out the great movies about it. That's why we had WWII, the movie studios started it so that we could have "From Here To Eternity", "The Longest Day", "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "Bridge over the River Kwai" and such other great films. I can hardly wait for "Sandbox Chronicles", "I, Obama", "To Michelle and Back", "If I Had A Son, He'd Look Like Khamis" and all the other epics in the works.
We should be so lucky our government is much more stable than Libya - but what is happening there could happen anywhere. What would we do if a thousand 9/11's hit America and the government has no answer for it?
Meantime I'd not be glorifying these deaths. I do believe that oftentimes what goes around comes around.
I don't mean this in a sarcastic manner but does the photo of the son look like the Libyan equivalent of Elvis Presley?
He does look like Elvis in that pic!
Song: "Bomb me tender, bomb me quick" *lol*
Let us make it a point to stay out of there. If things seem to get out of hand - like if they start exporting terrorism, etc., a few well placed nukes should be utilized. We are long overdue for eradicating Iran; let's stop making the same mistakes. The gutless idiots in the white house obviously can't do their job.