Odyssey Dawn: a military operations in Libya thread.

femoral artery is a bitch

Reuters is quoting NTC official Abdel Majid as saying Gaddafi has been wounded in both legs.

http://www.animated-gifs.eu/cartoons-roadrunner/0004.gif

Mahmoud Jibril, Libya's Interim Leader, quoted as saying "Thank God ILX is online for this moment, God is great and thank God"

A pro-Gaddafi television website denied Thursday reports that the strongman had been killed or captured.

‘The reports peddled by the lackeys of NATO about the capture or death of the brother leader, Muammar Gaddafi, is baseless,’ said Al Libiya television.

Gaddafi ‘is in good health,’ it added.

Earlier National Transitional Council commander Mohammed Leith told AFP that Gaddafi was captured Thursday as his hometown Sirte was falling, adding that the ousted strongman was badly wounded.

Pics or it didn't happen tbh

ntc official is confirming qaddafi's death.

What a splendid job NATO has done of completely ignoring its mandate. (if reports are to be believed etc etc)

http://images2-telegraaf.nl/multimedia/archive/00910/arrestatie_910587i.jpg

http://images2-telegraaf.nl/multimedia/archive/00910/kaddafishot_910586i.jpg

those images should maybe be linkified

that image is profound in ten different ways, kinda speechless

xp yeah sorta grizzly, featured on the guardian liveblog just right there, also

ugh thanks i guess

yeah p much. although the guardian didn't either.

Oh, I'm sorry dayo, I'll ask a mod

Apologies to Tracer too

You can tell he's been shot in the leg by the blood that's all over his face.

Eeek, that's pretty fucking real.

That pic is on the front page of the BBC website now. It's kind of terrifying that he's looking right at the camera.

NATO airstrike did for the old boy allegedly?

NATO confirmed that they airstruck his convoy at 6am BST today.

So is that pic his corpse being dragged about or what?

The look in his eyes reminds me of this guy:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=2118471&boardid=60&threadid=84970

I mean:

worst animal friends

can't believe there isn't a good flash based infographic dissecting the timelines, confusion & differing reports regarding all this

Body dragged through the streets of Sirte and "manhandled"

Al-Jazeera is now showing a close-up of Gaddafi's face. He does not seem to be alive.

We cannot confirm his death.

The 18 year old who shot Gaddafi, supposedly

lol BBC, not sure I've ever seen "killed" w/ quotes in a headline

what about ELVIS "KILLED" ON GRACELAND TOILET

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/129722713.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789219B309651A2344B3F95CF224A52B62FCFE0D1BF940689FE3D7833001A6B971738E30A760B0D811297

reuters has now downgraded his condition too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppylnvv2RwM

omg at guardian front page, jesus fuck at how graphic it is

can we call this a success now

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5183688097_59abd84f51.jpg

america is running out of classic boogeymen

thank god we have a slate of republican candidates to fill the gap

whoa at guardian front page

xp: and Joseph Kony

can we call this a success now

nah

Who knows what the future holds but the more prosaic but nonetheless important thing I'm going to start watching in the Maghreb is the elections in Tunisia

so we "lead from behind" going forward y/n?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/21/gaddafi-loyalists-torture-human-rights

The "flawless" performance of the Eurofighter Typhoon in the Libyan war has catapulted the aircraft ahead of its main rival to win one of the most lucrative of defence deals in recent times.

The Indian government has shortlisted both the Dassault Rafale and the Typhoon, both veterans of the Libyan campaign, for a planned £7 billion order of 126 jets for its air force.

The Typhoon was already leading the pack after the jet scored highest in a technical assessment by Indian pilots who flew the aircraft in a series of exercises in 2010.

But it is believed that it will be the Typhoon's performance in the Libyan conflict, where it completed more than 600 combat missions, that will help to clinch the deal, the result of which will be made public before Christmas.

can we call this a success now

I'd say yes, based on two salient facts: Ghaddafi is permanently removed from the picture and the US and NATO are not stationing any troops in Libya as a result (although there may be a fairly small number of military advisors in-country). Also, the Libyan people appear to be accepting of the casualties they suffered in the process of deposing Ghaddafi, as a necessary price and not an excessive one. Given what war is like, that's a success.

What happens next is out of our hands and I prefer it that way.

saif arrested by pro-government fighters

Now why do I suspect the hand of Western governments in this? The ones who wouldn't want him to spill all he knows in The Hague?

?????????

ja, probably the c1a

What kind of dirt do you think Gaddaffi son Saif has?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/19/world/africa/libya-gadhafi-son/index.html

It's sad he thought he was saif

http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/225833/a-year-later-libya-is-still-a-mess

This piece is written by a Glenn Greenwald endorsed conservative who might be an isolationist. But I also have read other pieces on the problems in Libya and on Tuaregs who had supported Quaddaffi now returning to Mali with more weapons