Rebels Are Entering Tripoli - Is Gadaffi done finally?

Biggins · 21-08-2011 09:34PM #1

Latest news is that Libyan rebels are now driving up and entering into Tripoli.
Gadaffi's soldiers are running away a great deal it appears.

Sky is reporting live and state "they have encountered (so far) no resistance" and is showing lots of Gadaffi soldier uniforms being dumped by the road sides.

Is Gadaffi's time finally up?

http://news.sky.com/home/liveplus

MitchKoobski · 21-08-2011 09:36PM

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some good footage from Al Jazeera.

the keen edge · 21-08-2011 09:37PM

Yeah he's going to have to leave Tripoli for Dublin soon.

Gadaffi's Gaff niteclub to open soon.

aaronjumper · 21-08-2011 09:37PM

Well best not get your hopes up until
he is officially stopped. Or caught depending
on peoples opinion of him.

Biggins · 21-08-2011 09:38PM

the keen edge wrote: »

Yeah he's going to have to leave Tripoli for Dublin soon.

Gadaffi's Gaff niteclub to open soon.

Should be a blast!

Dionysus · 21-08-2011 09:39PM

Biggins wrote: »

Is Gadaffi's time finally up?

Tá súil agam go mbeidh sé fíor.

joshrogan · 21-08-2011 09:44PM

Dionysus wrote: »

Tá súil agam go mbeidh sé fíor.

SHUDDUP YA BLEEDIN 4NER

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 21-08-2011 09:45PM

the oil suppliers are hoping he keep up a good fight.

Chuck Stone · 21-08-2011 09:48PM

I wonder will the Chinese oil companies be allowed back in.

Biggins · 21-08-2011 09:50PM

Dionysus wrote: »

Tá súil agam go mbeidh sé fíor.

Mar sin, is féidir liom a bheith macánta.

hmmm · 21-08-2011 09:50PM

Sky News coverage has been brilliant. Alex Crawford is nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OItnz76-88M

WonderWoman! · 21-08-2011 09:51PM

Thousands of civilians dying needlessly and all yis can talk about is oil

Eric Cartman · 21-08-2011 09:53PM

WonderWoman! wrote: »

Thousands of civilians dying needlessly and all yis can talk about is oil

were just pretending its the oval office

Biggins · 21-08-2011 09:55PM

The harder part after they take over maybe, is what comes next?
With a power vacume too prolonging, the once united rebels, might break up into their differing smaller factions.
So some sort of unity governing system needs to be established as soon as possible and get up and running.

prinz · 21-08-2011 09:56PM

Hopefully they finally secure victory over Gadaffi as soon as possible and that things improve for the people.

aligator_am · 21-08-2011 09:57PM

WonderWoman! wrote: »

Thousands of civilians dying needlessly and all yis can talk about is oil

Well oil is all the Western powers are thinking of to be honest, sweetest crude on the planet by all accounts.

How much oil do Syria have?

Gadaffi apparently threatens to kill rebels and NATO bomb the holy hell out of him, Assad wantonly riddles folk left right and centre and Turkey gives them about 10 final warnings.

Seems just a tad suspicious to me.

mike65 · 21-08-2011 09:58PM

Twiiter is agog with Gaddafi dead and the inner core arrested chatter

Bonne nouvelle ou intox CONFIRMED: Mu'amar Gaddafi, leader of Libya for 42 years, has been shot DEAD in vicinity of Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.”

Al Jazeera: sources confirm arrest of Gaddafi's two sons: Saif Gadafi and Sady in #Tripoli #Libya & Im guessing whos next

prinz · 21-08-2011 09:58PM

aligator_am wrote: »

Seems just a tad suspicious to me.

That's because your taking a seriously simplistic view.

mike65 · 21-08-2011 09:59PM

aligator_am wrote: »

Well oil is all the Western powers are thinking of to be honest, sweetest crude on the planet by all accounts.

How much oil do Syria have?

Gadaffi apparently threatens to kill rebels and NATO bomb the holy hell out of him, Assad wantonly riddles folk left right and centre and Turkey gives them about 10 final warnings.

Seems just a tad suspicious to me.

Libya is a winnable war (everything that matters is within 30 miles of the coast), Syria is a much tougher nut to crack due to its location, its size and its neighbours.

Richard Hillman · 21-08-2011 10:00PM

I think the game is up for him. The chap is mental though he probably will fight to the death.

aligator_am · 21-08-2011 10:01PM

prinz wrote: »

That's because your taking a seriously simplistic view.

OK, what am I failing to understand? that's a genuine question by the way, not being snide.

mike65 · 21-08-2011 10:01PM

Ah The Spirit of Comical Ali is alive and well

2157:

Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim has appeared on state TV, telling viewers: "Our country will be safe, in peace and in tranquillity soon.. These are the moments of the last battle in which we will be victorious God willing and the remnants of these gangs which are acting under Nato's orders will be destroyed."

Don't these people know how silly they sound at times like these?

Biggins · 21-08-2011 10:05PM

Confirmation from Sky - One of Gadaffi's sons has been captured.

hmmm · 21-08-2011 10:06PM

Reports that Gadaffi's son Saif has been captured.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 21-08-2011 10:06PM

WonderWoman! wrote: »

Thousands of civilians dying needlessly and all yis can talk about is oil

Well lets see,take zimbabwe,does have any oil fields,no,it does business with china,china does business with Europe/usa,so as far as the usa and rest of them concern,china/Zimbabwe can torture/kill who they like because they have a lot of business with the usa.

if you look back at any conflicts over the years,it was all political gain,nothing to do with watching the little people suffer.

hmmm · 21-08-2011 10:06PM

bbcHIGNFY HaveIGotNewsForYou
Gaddafi's authority has wilted due to a critically weak defence, heaping pressure on other mad dictators to spend in the transfer window.

Amhran Nua · 21-08-2011 10:08PM

mike65 wrote: »

Twiiter is agog with Gaddafi dead and the inner core arrested chatter

Bonne nouvelle ou intox CONFIRMED: Mu'amar Gaddafi, leader of Libya for 42 years, has been shot DEAD in vicinity of Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.”

Al Jazeera: sources confirm arrest of Gaddafi's two sons: Saif Gadafi and Sady in #Tripoli #Libya & Im guessing whos next

Semper sic tyrannis.

hmmm · 21-08-2011 10:08PM

Terrence Big Zeppelin wrote: »

if you look back at any conflicts over the years,it was all political gain,nothing to do with watching the little people suffer.

Just once, can people like you go back to a student politics forum and leave this thread alone? France and the UK had signed oil contracts with Libya before this war and they lost those contracts when they prevented the massacre of tens of thousands by protecting Benghazi.

prinz · 21-08-2011 10:10PM

aligator_am wrote: »

OK, what am I failing to understand? that's a genuine question by the way, not being snide.

Geopolitics in every sense of the word. Geography (i.e. Syrias ability to threaten regional security with Israel, Lebanon). The spread of the population of Syria as opposed to Libya's coastline. Diplomacy, Syria's ties with Iran and North Korea for example along with long range missiles. Militarily, Assad's ability to field up to half a million troops....

Gadaffi was isolated. Friendless. With all major population centres on the coast etc etc. Far easier for intervention.

Solnskaya · 21-08-2011 10:10PM

WonderWoman! wrote: »

Thousands of civilians dying needlessly and all yis can talk about is oil

dead right there- we should have a whip-around and send in a load of fresh needles. Even Libyan Junkies have rights.

Biggins · 21-08-2011 10:10PM

hmmm wrote: »

Reports that Gadaffi's son Saif has been captured.

If true, there are international arrest warrants out for him so if he survives the next few days/weeks, we might yet see him eventually in a European court?

Rebels Are Entering Tripoli - Is Gadaffi done finally?

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