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French planes stopped Gaddafi convoy
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Posted on 10/20/2011 12:07:07 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

French planes stopped Gaddafi convoy

From correspondents in Paris AFP October 21, 2011 5:16AM

FRENCH warplanes identified and stopped a convoy of vehicles carrying Muammar Gaddafi before he was killed in clashes in Libya, French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet says.

FThe convoy of several dozen vehicles "was stopped from progressing as it sought to flee Sirte but was not destroyed by the French intervention", Mr Longuet said.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adiosmofo; france; libya; nato; sirte
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1 posted on 10/20/2011 12:07:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

From Mo’s last video, looks like the air strike tuned him up pretty good. He was dirt-caked, pale, bloody and in shock. Didn’t take much after that for the local ground forces to capture him and finish the job.


2 posted on 10/20/2011 12:12:19 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Sub-Driver; Rinnwald

According to FOX NEWS, a U.S. Predator Drone also fired on the convoy.


3 posted on 10/20/2011 12:13:53 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Rinnwald

that may have been from the handling he got from his captors


4 posted on 10/20/2011 12:16:08 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Sub-Driver

I see President Obama has scheduled the first of many I killed Osama. Now I have killed Gaddafi speeches to the nation. He better be careful. Latest report is that a French fighter jet and possibly a US drone fired on the Gaddafi convoy and stopped it.The rebels on the ground then shot up the convoy and dragged a very much alive Gaddafi off a truck pistol whipped him and then killed him.I am not one to quibble about semantics but this account really is closer to murder than to a battlefield combat death. Works for me but I don’t think it will work for lefty Obama supporters and the Arab street. He might want to mute his narcissism on this one and let the ragheads take credit for this one.


5 posted on 10/20/2011 12:23:25 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: chuckee

silence from Code Pink and the Murtha/Kerry wing...


6 posted on 10/20/2011 12:31:18 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: chuckee
Here's a video of him still alive.

I'm not sure, but the last you see of him is somebody pushing his head down, then you can hear one gunshot, then a lot of celebratory gunfire.

Sic semper tyrannis.

7 posted on 10/20/2011 12:31:41 PM PDT by phrogphlyer
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To: Sub-Driver

No,no,no!!! Obama did it all by hisself!


8 posted on 10/20/2011 12:32:31 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Sub-Driver
Trivia - Which Nobel Peace Prize Winner has killed more heads of states than all the others combined...
9 posted on 10/20/2011 12:36:33 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: phrogphlyer

That’s one of the look alikes, the person is too young & skinny to be Gaddafi, poor kid.


10 posted on 10/20/2011 12:43:58 PM PDT by de.rm ('Most people never believe anything you tell them unless it isn't true."-Groucho Marx)
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To: ozzymandus

Yes he did. Flew over there like Superman and beat him to a bloody pulp bare handedly


11 posted on 10/20/2011 12:44:29 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (0 - 537 They ALL must go.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Zoot alors!!!! It eeze zee Kadaffee en zee, how you say, convey?


12 posted on 10/20/2011 12:49:30 PM PDT by RexBeach (There is no such thing as a good tax - Winston Churchill)
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13 posted on 10/20/2011 1:34:32 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Rinnwald

Are you sure that it wasn’t French Special Forces or SAS that got Gudaffi? I bet that it was a NATO specops that killed Gudaffi.


14 posted on 10/20/2011 1:48:21 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Sub-Driver

I shed no tears for the death of Gaddafi, but what will follow? The current administration may soon prove to have been criminally short-sighted with its active involvement in removing authoritative - yet stable - Middle East leaders, handing countries that are vital to the stability of the region over to Muslim radicals bent on the destruction of Israel.


15 posted on 10/20/2011 1:59:50 PM PDT by tjd1454
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To: Thunder90

european special forces probably called in the air strike that got him.


16 posted on 10/20/2011 2:07:52 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Thunder90

european special forces probably called in the air strike that got him.


17 posted on 10/20/2011 2:08:20 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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Thanks Sub-Driver for the topic, thanks Cardhu for the link.


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To: chuckee; no-to-illegals; All

According to late reports he had been hiding in a culvert under the road, presumably to avoid air attack after his original wounds in the leg. The rebels apparently dragged him out, roughed him up then shot him in the head and perhaps 2 other places. One guy took his famous gold pistol. E-bay anyone?


19 posted on 10/20/2011 11:40:20 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Cannot imagine trying to defend oneself with a gold pistol. Gold pistol certainly did not work out for quddafi.

Actually I thought quddafi was further south. Was wrong about that.

20 posted on 10/21/2011 3:12:08 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen. --> AmeriCain)
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