Seems it was a French plane that strafed Qaddafi's car

[Ohio Joe]

Before the Libyans killed him.

Guess we did not have anything to do with it.

http://gizmodo.com/5851914/meet-the-gun-in-the-sky-that-ended-qaddafi

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-20/french-air-power-begins-ends-nato-air-campaign-over-libya.html

So... Can we stop blaming the US for his death now?

[appleannie1]

1. I read that one of his own bodyguards shot him so he would not be beaten to death after capture.

[Ohio Joe]

2. Yeah... I saw that

But the article I saw seemed to indicate that was only a theory though and not a fact.

[appleannie1]

8. We reap what we sow. He created so much hatred and rage for over 40 years that his being the target

of that rage from the people he should have worked to aid should come as no surprise to anyone. The US did not kill him. In a sense he killed himself by creating that much anger and hatred in the people of his country.

[madokie]

14. And that is the way it is

karma is a bitch

[zappaman]

3. I weep for us.

We lost our morals and our laws today.
Wait...it wasn't us?
Ok, but I'm still gonna clutch my pearls and wring my hands dammit!!!

[Selatius]

4. Who's been blaming the US? I thought he executed by NTC troops after his capture? nt

[zappaman]

7. uh, quite a few here on DU jump right to "we did it"

take a look around

[leftstreet]

5. So the people trying to credit Obama with this are....wrong?

I'm confused

[Ohio Joe]

6. Yes, I would say so - nt

[zappaman]

10. Obama did not kill Quaddafi. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Actually it was a drone

And the French.

:-)

[pinboy3niner]

11. Still too early for conclusions and judgments

We've been through this shit with early reports on events before. A lot of the very credible-sounding early reports will turn out to be totally inaccurate--and we have no way of knowing which reports those will be.

Your money may as well be on one of his tall, bosomed bodyguards doing him in for reasons completely unrelated to the revolution. You might even be right! :)

[AzNick]

12. One of the Mirage Rafale fighters he refused to buy

The Rafale was the first in the air over Lybia, before its anti-air defenses were down, proving its stealth fighting capabilities. And that of the French pilots, who are among the best in the world (and that's not a joke, ask any US fighter pilot what he thinks of the French pilots).

[AzNick]

13. Correction: it was a 2000

Not a Rafale. The Mirage 2000 is one hell of a plane, getting old, but still very capable.

[AzNick]

15. Read the comments... Some people will never learn.

What was the US doing in 1939 and 1940 when Franch and Britain were taking on the Nazis?

[tawadi]

16. K&R

Who really knows?
:shrug:

[seacaves]

17. Sarkozy has to focus on his re-election. Hollande 62% if elections

held now. Whow.



For Sarkozy, success in Libya won’t necessarily help his re-election next year.

“Libya is popular on the whole with the French because it plays to their sense of France standing up for human rights,” said Laurent Dubois, a professor at the Paris Political Studies Institute. “But that’s not what’s going to decide the election. It’s not as important as the economy.”

Francois Hollande, who won the Socialist Party’s nomination last weekend, would defeat Sarkozy 62 percent to 38 percent if elections were held now, a poll released Oct. 19 said. Hollande has supported the military operations in Libya.