Gaddafi leaves Libya: Report

Gaddafi leaves Libya: Report

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Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has left his country for Venezuela or Brazil, as protests calling on him to step down have turned violent, a report says.


Pro-democracy protests sparked by the popular revolutions that deposed long-serving rulers of neighboring Egypt and Tunisia have engulfed Libya since last week with thousands of people flocking the streets of the eastern city of Benghazi, and calling for the ouster of the 68-year-old Gaddafi, who has been in office since September 1969.

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Please please please please please?

That would be nice. Another going down!

Hopefully this is true... waiting for more sources to confirm!

That would be epic.

Come on!!!!!!!! If this is true, I hope he's caught, tried and convicted for war crimes... ordering the army to shoot peaceful protesters... not to mention the whole business of the Lockerbie bomber.

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Hell yeah, looks like one of the bigger snakes have finally been driven from his spider-hole of a country. Hopefully the banks will seize his accounts and repatriate all the money he's looted from the Libyans over the years.

If he disappears without abdicating, they are going to have a domestic crisis on their hands.

There is a massive power vacuum forming in the middle east. Lets hope popular and democratic powers are unified enough to fill the void.

In any case, there are truly interesting times.

Sorry to burst your bubble but;

www.chron.com...

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They could follow the Egyptians lead and have the military seize control and call for elections in 6 months. Obviously when you're overthrowing a dictator it doesn't really matter if he abdicates or turns power over to an appointee, the idea is to get rid of the lot.

Thread already here too www.abovetopsecret.com...

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If this is true, then it's huge.

3 in a row, all deposed within weeks of the unrest starting. This wont stay in just the middle-east. I reckon we can look forward to other continents experiencing the same effect.

Now all we need to do is tie in this surge for freedom and democracy with a strong anti-corporate and anti-rich people theme and we've got ourselves a global revolution.

What I'd give to be able to get the message of Roddenberry and / or Zeitgeist to the forefront with all this RIGHT NOW.

The Rev.

Presstv is an Iranian government site. Sometimes they are barely any better than Weekly World News and just like to post articles to stir up stuff.

Take anything on their with a big grain of salt and look for verification from other sites

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Wow, he's been in power since 1969? I was only 10 years old at the time. How can people of any country allow someone to be in power for that long? I hope Egypt's overthrow of their dictator is a domino effect around the world. When you think about it, we complain about dictators in other countries, but we have dictators in our own congress and in the Senate. Our "career politicians don't deserve to be in power until they retire." Public service doesn't mean you reap the benefits and you hold onto power until you're in poor health or retire. We need to start demanding term limits on our own politicians, and start demanding corporations and interest groups to remove themselves from the halls of congress and stop bribing members of congress!

funny, cnn just showed his son on tv. he said they ain't going nowhere.

I want to see the fat royal Saudi's on a jet out of town (assuming they'd fit in the plane). Each passing day american colonialism is losing her foothold and arguably her reign over these nations.

brill

Gadhafi's son says his father remains in Libya, backed by the army; vows to fight 'until the last bullet' - AP

Why in the world would Venezuela welcome Gadaffi?

Originally posted by brill
I want to see the fat royal Saudi's on a jet out of town (assuming they'd fit in the plane). Each passing day american colonialism is losing her foothold and arguably her reign over these nations.

brill

Saudi arabia? American Colonialism? You should check your history, while there is a lot of foreign influence in what led to those countries coming about, it was not the US that played a role in the Saudi monarchy and the Saud family coming to power.

We do not reign over Saudi Arabia, or any other arab country for that matter. and we used to have a lot more military bases in the arab countries in the 1950s than we do now

Just got the word from Libya from citizen there and apparently Gadaffi is still there but Tripoli is falling.

Originally posted by firepilot

Originally posted by brill
I want to see the fat royal Saudi's on a jet out of town (assuming they'd fit in the plane). Each passing day american colonialism is losing her foothold and arguably her reign over these nations.

brill

We do not reign over Saudi Arabia, or any other arab country for that matter. and we used to have a lot more military bases in the arab countries in the 1950s than we do now

lol. Point is the usa's grubby hands all over most of these counties demise from tyranny. Regardless, she is being forced out and should look to her own problems of which they're are many many more to be concerned with.

brill

Originally posted by thisisnotaname
Gadhafi's son says his father remains in Libya, backed by the army; vows to fight 'until the last bullet' - AP

Hopefully the last bullet ends up in their little brains.

The Associated Press later reported the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi saying protesters had seized control of some military bases and tanks.

+1

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Well i guess we know why all the Amb. were called home. or just lucky there not back to there posts, yet. or are their any American Embassies in Tripoli? don't know? anyone?

Originally posted by Skittle
Why in the world would Venezuela welcome Gadaffi?

Because Hugo and Moammar are pals.