Congrats LIBYA :')

I want to write a sonnet... a haiku... an acrostic... anything that would express my excitement, at the moment.
But... I cannot find any word!

GHADDAFI, the president of Libya, actually, its one-and-only Ruler... DICTATOR has DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDD.

After 40 years of ruling..
of exploiting free-pens..
free-men..
free-minds...

After 40 years of being at the bottomless pit, LIBYA is now, NOW, in the TOP.

CONGRATULATIONS LIBYA.
CONGRATULATIONS ARAB WORLD.
CONGRATULATIONS WORLD.

May God Bless you all.

Another man down.. Another men to go..

They shouldn't of killed him, they should have imprisoned him and had a court adress him and his massacres, leave him to rot in prison for the rest of his miserable life.

But him dead is the next best thing, congratulations to Libya, thanks to the rebels and the Nato who made sure this is possible
And hopefully every other tyrant in our world meets qadafis fate. :)

^I agree with my brother.

Yes yes me tooooo :)

I heard about this earlier today. I was going to make a post but I didn't feel knowledgeable enough to say anything. It looks like you all have it covered, though! I hope the future of Libya is much more prosperous from here on.

Under safe hands it should be, Libya has enough oil to be one of the richest countries in the whole world. Qadafi's fortune alone is enough to feed the whole content of Africa for 3 years. How sad is that?

And while I agree about almost everything. Worrying about the future of the libyan people I have to say this, For Qadafi, this is what I have to say, If anything, dictators should now learn that they too are destined to die in the same way if not worse than those they oppress, with that being said, Colonel Gaddafi was captured, only then to be executed & his body dragged on the streets of Sirte... I find it strange that those that propagate to be following the highest etiquette of the religion of Islam shout Allah-o-Akbar whilst behaving in this manner?! Just for the record I'm not defending qaddafi, I wouldn't, but what I am saying is that barbarism & islam are not compatible.

What now? The NTC at it's helm consist of Libyan origin greedy opportunist business men who will now reap the rewards of opening themselves to be colonized by the Western governments. I hope I'm wrong but the dye has already been cast.
What annoyed me the most was the reactions of world leaders, "a momentous day" Obama described it. Hilary Clinton a simple "Wow!" sufficed.
There is an old urdu saying that states "If your enemy dies do not rejoice, as there will be a time that your beloved also meets that same fate..." I think that kinda sums up today's news. Those that claim to be civilized are anything but.

Also, I'm really very worried about libya's future, as WikiLeaks cables and the US National Strategy for Counter-terrorism reveal, American government plans for Africa are part of a global design in which 60,000 special forces, including death squads, already operate in 75 countries, soon to be 120. As Dick Cheney pointed out in his 1990s "defense strategy" plan

Me and you and everyone can now watch while the largest oil reserves in Africa will dry up quicker than you can imagine.

I've been trying to come to terms with what happened the whole day and frankly, I can't. I think this is a very sad day and, If this is where we are heading then we've failed. miserably. People are defending violence, they're defending brutality and bestiality and it's sickening. He was unarmed and they've already took him as a prisoner, why maim and kill him? Why not act as rational and civilized ''human beings'', we who were asking for freedom, equity and order, why not start with him and surrender him to whatever authorities that was to be responsible for his trail? Didn't we want change, fairness and justice? Isn't that what we've been risking our lives for? Has it all now become selective and mobs (who now are in power apparently) are the new dictators deciding who is to live and who deserves to die, not to mention, in humiliation after being dragged along like an animal and not a human being while being tapped? and for those who talk religion and say an eye for an eye, Were we not told to treat war prisoners (those who come into your country to kill you, mind you) well after they're disarmed?

I don't think this road we're taking will lead to justice or democracy. Violence breeds violence. Those who come into power by bloodshed and brutality will rule with the same bloodshed and brutality (especially when it comes to their opponents) not the language of dialogue or public interest.

I honestly thought we were more civilized than that, that we as people could be trusted, that we knew better, but it turns out we're nothing better than those ruling us for once we had the chance we did the same thing they would have done then danced on his grave. I'm sorry if I can't find the heart to congratulate anyone.

Totally pin point, and Understandable =-)

and by the way, Welcome back my friend, you are missed =-)

I kind of agree with you on everything, been trying to reason with what they did, but i just can't period,

but keep in Mind that qaddafi isn't Zein al Albedeen, Nor Moubarak, He is a man who've unleashed Airplane attacks on his own, Took Beasitly and tourtue to a whole new level, he had it coming, just wished it wasn't this way

He wasn't sane, however this isn't about Qaddafi, Rabea, it's about us, the people, we're being as selective in applying what we are demanding as our leaders were. This is no change and this isn't what thousands gave their lives for. This is revenge.

We are at fault and no amount of trying to blame it on Qaddafi's actions or the west's will do. It's us, just us, and excuses would not change that. I naively believed so much in everything and put us all in a very high regard, as it seems I was wrong.

That he deserved to die is a given. That he died at the hands of the mob, some would say is justice for the murder and brutality he has brought to his people for the last 40 years

The crimes he committed will never be forgiven and he will go down in history as one of the most savage and brutal leaders in history. The fact that he was caught and killed at the hands of his own people may give some peace to families and friends of those he committed crimes against? As opposed to being tried in some war court somewhere to face life imprisonment. Much like what happened to Mussolini when he was strung up with his wife.

And yes there are those that say we should be better than him, more civilized and part of me agrees with that, but were it my family that had been raped tortured and murdered by this animal then I would be the first to pull the trigger. Does that make me an animal as well? Maybe but I would hold my head up high could then move on. Yet until we are put in those shoes do we truly know how we would react?

I think there is every chance that Libya will move forward from this to greater things

I too would rather have seen a trial and punishment. This action is a precursor to anarchy. Better to start with rule of law. Sometimes that is just not possible in mob activity.

The key to watch is whether Western nations instrumental in the demise of Gadhafi's government link incentives to democratization.

On the one hand, one would hope that France would take a lesson from her own history of the late 1800s, as well as their debacle in Angola & not encourage the self-serving interests.

On the other hand, I am rather jaded where money & power go asking for help in competition with fairness and equality.

On the third hand, the nation rose once, it can do so again if needed.