# Gaddafi is dead, as Sirte falls to Libyan troops **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237 "2011-10-20T12:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/41 "2011-10-20T19:56:33Z")
Yeah, but as a result of that episode, the late [del]great[/del] Gaddafi cannot be discussed in our household without using that same disapproving voice: “Mo-mmmaaaaarrrrr.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/42 "2011-10-20T19:58:48Z")
My mother use to call him “moo moo.” ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/43 "2011-10-20T19:59:04Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s very good news for Libya that he’s out of the picture, but the bad news is that [it sounds like he was captured after a battle and then executed](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBYA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-20-12-09-44). It’s still probably better than a lot of Libyans received, but not what you want to see. Another one of Gaddafi’s sons is now being reported as dead, and a third was wounded and captured. > The leaders of Tunisia and Egypt were forced out earlier this year. They belong on that list a lot more than Bin Laden does. Well, that article says that there was footage of rebels hauling a wounded Gaddafi into an ambulance. A doc with the rebels says he ‘died from his wounds’, and his body dumped onto the street half an hour later. Pretty vague, but unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t say he was outright executed. Would be nice to see a clip of the footage they are referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/44 "2011-10-20T20:10:36Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > Would be nice to see a clip of the footage they are referring to. [Here’s the video.](http://www.youtube.com/associatedpress#p/u/6/CGCtqbx4xBI) The initial statement from the transitional council has said Gaddafi died from gunshot wounds to the head and chest, and he doesn’t seem to have many of those in this video. More recently I think they’ve said he was wounded in the neck and bled to death after being put in the ambulance. It’s not possible to determine that from a couple of seconds of video and there’s been a lot of confusion from all sides, so I don’t want to imply more strongly that they executed him. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/45 "2011-10-20T20:43:35Z")
How are they going to spell his name on the tombstone? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/46 "2011-10-20T20:49:31Z")
I’ve often found the U.K.'s _Mail Online_ to be a better source of information than American news sites. Below is a link to an _Online_ article with lots of crisp, clear and graphic photos of Qhaddafi’s capture and dead body, including one showing an apparent bullet wound to his left temple. > **[Who shot Gaddafi? New video shows blood pouring from dictator immediately...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051361/GADDAFI-DEAD-VIDEO-Dictator-begs-life-summary-execution.html)** > > The 69-year-old was pulled out alive from the drain under a motorway where he had been hiding with a small group of bodyguards after fleeing Sirte. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/47 "2011-10-20T20:56:46Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > How are they going to spell his name on the tombstone? Correctly, I assume. 😉 Seriously, they’ll probably do it in Arabic, for which I assume there is one single correct spelling. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/48 "2011-10-20T20:59:28Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > How are they going to spell his name on the tombstone? Moammar. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/49 "2011-10-20T21:14:24Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Moammar. …less letters than ‘Rat-at-tat Rat’, so I approve. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/50 "2011-10-20T21:14:39Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Moammar. I believe the correct spelling is “rekcuF-taoG.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/51 "2011-10-20T21:20:13Z")
Pity there’s no new SNL episode for a couple of weeks. Fred Armisen is losing a glorious opportunity for an opening sketch here. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/52 "2011-10-20T21:21:50Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Here’s the video.](http://www.youtube.com/associatedpress#p/u/6/CGCtqbx4xBI) The initial statement from the transitional council has said Gaddafi died from gunshot wounds to the head and chest, and he doesn’t seem to have many of those in this video. More recently I think they’ve said he was wounded in the neck and bled to death after being put in the ambulance. It’s not possible to determine that from a couple of seconds of video and there’s been a lot of confusion from all sides, so I don’t want to imply more strongly that they executed him. Yeah. I’m not a doctor, but in the video, he doesn’t look wounded. He is walking, talking, pushing, arguing, and other things that look like he is just captured and unhurt. He must have tried to escape later. \*shrugs. I’m generally against summary execution, but with all of the bad things in the world, if it happened in this case, it would be #549 on my outrage meter of bad stuff that happened today.. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/53 "2011-10-20T21:23:12Z")
On a related note, after being reminded of the Obama Administration’s role in the liberation of Libya, Rush Limbaugh took the opportunity to mourn the loss of “America’s bestest friend in the desert” and to admonish Obama for, once again, accomplishing things that the Republicans couldn’t. Then he passed out in a Oxycontin fugue. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/54 "2011-10-20T21:29:46Z")
I await with bated breath to see how this can be spun as something against Obama. Is anyone brave enough to check the usual suspects? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/55 "2011-10-20T21:31:50Z")
“HUSSEIN Obama killing threats against second term.” “Today we mourn Gaddafi ®, killed by Muslim terrorist with contacts to the United States government.” ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/56 "2011-10-20T21:32:25Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > How are they going to spell his name on the tombstone? “Throat Warberler Mangrove” ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/57 "2011-10-20T21:34:06Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Pity there’s no new SNL episode for a couple of weeks. Fred Armisen is losing a glorious opportunity for an opening sketch here. Weekend at Gaddafi’s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/58 "2011-10-20T22:14:44Z")
I think we should pause for a moment to recognize what a sad day this is for unlicensed plastic surgeons who don’t care where their money comes from. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/59 "2011-10-20T23:30:11Z")
Why didn’t the fool split to Venezuela? Chavez was his good buddy. Stupid…stpid…what good’s that villa in SWitzerland now? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/60 "2011-10-20T23:31:41Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Why didn’t the fool split to Venezuela? Perhaps he was on the way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237.md?page=4)