Sunday, October 23, 2011

Qaddafi's Last Days/Words

The New York Times has a story based largely on the account of Qaddafi's cousin and aide, Mansour Dhao Ibrahim, detailing the deposed tyrant's final days as a fugitive.  The most interesting detail? Perhaps that Qaddafi and his son Muatassim's bodies are being displayed to the public in a meat locker in a shopping mall in Misrata.

MSNBC's report also includes this detail, as well as an account of Qaddafi's apparent last words to his captors:  "Do you know right from wrong?"  This is nowhere near as impressive as Che Guevara's final statement of "Know that you are killing a man!"*, but the Colonel's epigram likely will never be surpassed on the irony meter.

COL Qaddafi's body is on display at a Libyan shopping mall, apparently between the Target and Blood Bath and Beyond
* There is actually some dispute as to whether Che said: "You are killing a man!" in defiance, or "You are only killing a man" because the soldier who drew the straw to execute him was hesitant to shoot an unarmed prisoner.

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