From the Guardian:
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will fight attempts to unseat him until “the last man standing,” one of his sons said on Sunday after days of protests reached the capital.
At least 233 people have now been killed since unrest started last week, Human Rights Watch said, making Libya’s uprising one of the bloodiest to have erupted in the Arab world over the past two months…
From what I can gather from the news, a civil war is shaping up in Libya, with the eastern part of the country effectively out of the control of Gaddafi’s regime. Violence is breaking out everywhere and Gaddafi’s hired goons seem to be using extreme force where ever they can.
I have to say, nothing would give me more satisfaction than to see Gaddafi’s regime go down – and him face the justice of his long-oppressed people. For most of my life, I’ve seen the Gaddafi regime just go from bad to worse. Justice is some times slow, but it always arrives in the by and by…and this may be Gaddafi’s last stand.
UPDATE: Good news! Our State Department is “gravely concerned“. Only 6 more steps before they get to “worried”!
UPDATE II: A liberal friend of mine got a bright idea – contact the State Department and urge them to work against Gaddafi getting asylum anywhere…probably a quixotic effort, but some times you just have to lay down the marker no matter what comes of it.
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