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U.S. Predator Drone Fired on Qaddafi Convoy, Official Says
Foxnews ^ | Updated: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 1:40 PM CDT Published : Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 2:40 PM CDT

Posted on 10/20/2011 3:08:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

A U.S. Predator drone, along with a French fighter jet, fired on the convoy said to be carrying Muammar Qaddafi in the moments before his death, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Thursday. 

The official said the drone and French jet fired on a "large convoy" leaving Qaddafi's hometown of Sirte. A French defense official earlier said about 80 vehicles were in the convoy -- the official said the strike did not destroy the convoy but that fighters on the ground afterward intercepted the vehicle carrying Qaddafi. 

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: libya
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1 posted on 10/20/2011 3:08:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: NormsRevenge; SandRat; Marine_Uncle

H/T to Drudge.


2 posted on 10/20/2011 3:10:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Any time now the White House will release a photo of General Obama in the war room planning the mission.


3 posted on 10/20/2011 3:11:06 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle
being waterboarded or shot by a drone? Liberals done death= Good.

Waterboarding = War Crime.

4 posted on 10/20/2011 3:13:39 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m guessing they hit the first couple vehicles, and the last couple vehicles. Then let the folks on the ground take it from there.


5 posted on 10/20/2011 3:14:04 PM PDT by Larry Lucido ("#Occupy America" is a great success! I got mail today addressed to "Occupant"!)
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To: scooby321

A double standard, indeed.

This is the absolute essence of left-wing liberalism: “I” get to decide what’s right or wrong, and that’s that.


6 posted on 10/20/2011 3:19:19 PM PDT by Walrus (Big government is the natural enemy of liberty)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

trying to sneak out of town with an 80 vehicle caravan? No wonder it didn’t work


7 posted on 10/20/2011 3:25:44 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The George Bush regime captured Saddam Hussein, and then turned him over to Iraqi authorities for the administration of justice, according to Iraqi law.

The Barack Obama administration took a shortcut, and murdered Khadaffi (Qaddafi, Quadaphi, Khadafy, Kaddaffi...whatever).

Hell of a guy, that Obama.


8 posted on 10/20/2011 3:28:01 PM PDT by Walrus (Big government is the natural enemy of liberty)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

With all of the money Qadaffy had, why would he stay in Libya? Just move to Cuba or some friendly country and live in a villa the rest of his life. That’s what I would have done.


9 posted on 10/20/2011 3:30:31 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Walrus

“A double standard, indeed.”

The corrupt liberal media would have called it illegal political assination if Bush had done this.


10 posted on 10/20/2011 3:31:23 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Right....a drone and a fighter...side by side....Right!!

Just another assassination and more money for the muzzies...

Have you figured it out yet?? Right...Obama is not a Muzzie??

11 posted on 10/20/2011 3:33:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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With all of the money Qadaffy had, why would he stay in Libya? Just move to Cuba or some friendly country and live in a villa the rest of his life. That’s what I would have done.

How do you know he didn't? Just send off the double in an 80-vehicle convoy in the other direction while tipping off the Americans and French. Then, when the real one lands safely in Havana (or Geneva), have Hillary do a video-op croaking "we came, we saw, he died."

(yeah she really did that).

12 posted on 10/20/2011 3:36:54 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama tries to eek out a tiny bit of credit here.


13 posted on 10/20/2011 3:37:16 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Sorry, but if I was that French pilot up there with a U.S. drone, I would be pretty damn nervous since that little “virus outbreak”.


14 posted on 10/20/2011 3:37:53 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

From looking at the photos and the video, there is no way he was hit by a drone. Those things blow people to smithereens. He was shot and beaten—look at how the position of his nose changes between some of the pictures.


15 posted on 10/20/2011 3:39:40 PM PDT by Pinetop
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Right....a drone and a fighter...side by side....Right!!

Misinformation.

Just like way back when they got a vehicle carrying some bomb making terrorists that had a car full of explosives.

The story was that a predator fired hellfire missiles, and that the Iraqi helicopter fired it's machine guns, causing the car to explode.

While it is possible both crafts may have fired, that is not what hit the vehicle and caused it to explode.

Just another assassination and more money for the muzzies...

Correct. Control of the gold bullion in the Libyan National Bank only transfers upon the death of the head of the government and his family.

Citibank and politicians from the US, England, France, and Italy are breathing sighs of relief now that the gold is in 'proper' (muslim) hands.

16 posted on 10/20/2011 3:44:08 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: GeronL

“Obama tries to eek out a tiny bit of credit here.”

And his “days, not weeks” pledge was NEVER challenged by anyone in the corrupt liberal media. Obama is well protected by them.


17 posted on 10/20/2011 3:58:10 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Things are getting to the point that it will be really hard to complain when someone gets assassinated by “foreign element” here in the good ol’ US of A.

The little man in the white house is acting more and more like a kid with a new video game.


18 posted on 10/20/2011 4:14:44 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: RobinOfKingston

Yep, this time the chickens really will come home to roost.


19 posted on 10/20/2011 4:15:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RobinOfKingston

Can anyone be killed now without a trial?


20 posted on 10/20/2011 4:18:24 PM PDT by FreedBird
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