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NickC wrote:I see it getting really bad, the NFZ means Gadaffi's forces are stuck, so protracted civil war it is then, the infrastructure will collapse, water and food will not get through, starvation, disease and war, great arn't we

Alas, looks like I got it about right for Misrata

So what are people thinking today

Has Gaddafi flow the nest?

I'm gobsmacked at the speed with which the Gaddafi forces in Tripoli have collapsed. I never bought into the "stalemate" meme people were spreading a couple of months back, but I thought it'd take a lot longer than it has.

I assume Gaddafi's still at his compound, hence the heavy fighting around there - it'd be pretty silly for the Gaddafi forces there to fight otherwise, they've been surrendering in droves everywhere else...

So how bothered are people about how Gaddafi died?

are we likley to know the truth in any case ?

philsmove wrote:So how bothered are people about how Gaddafi died?

are we likley to know the truth in any case ?

No one seemed bothered by Osama's death or Saddam's

philsmove wrote:So how bothered are people about how Gaddafi died?

Kind of mildly bothered. But not overly so. He was, after all, an enemy combatant during a time of war.

And he had every opportunity to surrender, he was literally too insane to realise the game was up.

I'd have preferred a trial, but I can't say I'm not glad he's gone.

philsmove wrote:are we likley to know the truth in any case ?

Nah, it's died down. There'll be an investigation for form's sake, but that's about it.