$1.7 million and amnesty offered to anyone who brings in Gaddafi dead or alive.
An interview with a mercenary in Gaddafi’s army.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2090205,00.html#ixzz1VytmwyaR
Really fascinating.
From the BBC:
BBC News - Libya fighting (warning, plays video on open)
Always hard to know what’s the credibility of such “witnesses”, there are several parts of the article which reek of “Saddam Hussein’s woodchippers”.
Zombie: The guy in the article is a self-serving bastard seeking to make himself look good and noble. But I think it does establish that there certainly were mercenaries, which some people were doubting. And it’s interesting.
Rebels found some weird shit. Mercenaries (probably) found with hands tied and executed.
And they may have almost got Mummar.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/us-libya-gaddafi-commandos-report-idUSTRE77O2ZH20110825
And, of course, this. What. The. Hell?
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/25/7470058-in-the-ruins-of-gadhafis-lair-rebels-find-album-filled-with-photos-of-his-darling-condoleezza-rice
I’m not dubious about most of his story, but a bit skeptical about the Khaddafi clan doing drugs, girls and booze in all night parties while fighting. It looks and sounds too close to the habitual cliches about Khaddafi (not that it would be absolutely stunning if he really did party, just that it sounds too convenient).
That said, I didnt read the ITV as a PR attempt by the mercenary, he seemed relatively honest.
ETA: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...ndoleezza-rice
Lol.
Weirdest dictatorship this side of Pyongyang . . .
Libya Live Blog, entry 10 minutes ago, says the NTC claims to have Gaddafi and entourage surrounded in Tripoli, but they won’t say exactly where.
We have heard that before. They said they had his sons in custody also.
To be fair, that was on the first night in Tripoli when nobody had any idea wtf was going on.
To be fair, as far as we can tell, they did have his sons in custody, but they escaped/bribed their way out/etc.
They’re trying to talk Sirte into surrendering.
Apparently the only east-west coastal highway runs through Sirte; so long as it holds out, you can’t get from Benghazi to Tripoli by land.
Once they get all the war-damage fixed up, the new government should look at building some new roads.
[silently tiptoes towards silenus’ bed with a bucket of icewater]
In order to bypass Sirte, they’d have to build a road running from the Tripoli area straight south to nowhere, then straight east to nowhere, and then back north to the coastal road, hundreds of kilometers longer, and (as far as I can tell) running through desert and mountainous desert.
I think the city will give in soon enough. The civil war is pretty much done. I don’t expect the resistance to continue to have much of a territorial base. (I do expect resistance to continue, but it’s going to be small roving bands, not anything organized that controls large swathes of territory.)
BBC is reporting that the rebels are desperately looking for 50,000 rebel prisoners who seem to have gone mssing in Ka-Daffy’s final days. With all the evidence of hasty last-minute executions that are being uncovered, this does not bode well.
The Beeb yesterday was saying Ka-Daffy sent a message finally offering to negotiate. I believe it was laughed off.
LIMBLESS BLACK KNIGHT: All right, we’ll call it a draw!