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Perhaps all of this helps us to understand why, in July this year, huge crowds of Libyans thronged the streets of Tripoli in support of Gaddafi and why recent polls suggested that 90% of the Libyan population supported their 'brutal dictator'. Perhaps we can also understand why images such as the one below are being touted by the Western media as 'crowds of Libyans queuing to 'gawp' at the 'brutal dictator's dead body':
Not very convincing 'crowd' queues to see the 'brutal dictator's body
See here for more 'crowd' pictures.
It should come as no surprise then to realise that allegations of 'war crimes' leveled at pro-Gaddafi forces and that Gaddafi "bombed his own people" during the NATO bombing campaign were simply a continuation of the decades-long demonisation of the Libyan Leader, and were designed to cover up the fact that, just as we saw during the prelude to the 'humanitarian war to save Kosovars' in 1999 (when "tremendous efforts were undertaken to discover evidence of war crimes"), it was NATO bombs which took the lives of thousands of Libyan civilians. During a bombing raid on 30 April, Gaddafi's son, Saif el-Arab, 29, as well as three of his grandchildren, were killed. The four-month-old daughter of Gaddafi's daughter Aisha was among those murdered.
Down The Rat Hole
Was it really Colonel Muammar Gaddafi who was dragged out of that 'rat hole'? The story of Gaddafi's 'death' strikes me as a little too similar to that of Saddam Hussein (pulled from a 'spider hole', 'hiding like a rat', etc.) and the images and videos that are doing the rounds on the mainstream media sites are far too grainy to be proof of anything. At least one of them (below) is clearly a doctored version of an image purportedly taken at the site of Osama Bin Laden's death, which in itself could be taken as evidence that the same people were involved in both staged events.
Look at 'Gaddafi's' left shoulder. The pictures of the dead men at 'Bin Laden's compound' contained one of a man with a toy 'water gun' beneath him. The gun was bright green, the blood was dark red, and the man wore a white shirt and had dark black hair. He also had one hand across his chest.
Here's the original:
DÃ ©ja vu
Look familiar? The CIA photoshopper simply flipped the image and put Gaddafi's face on it. The water gun was moved slightly so that the orange on the gun is no longer visible. (Hat-tip to Pundit Press for pointing this out.)
The real Muammar al-Gaddafi has some rather distinctive facial features:
Note the 'drooping eyelids' and wrinkle lines
One distinctive feature is ptosis. Also called 'drooping eyelid', ptosis is caused by weakness of the muscle responsible for raising the eyelid, damage to the nerves that control those muscles, or looseness of the skin of the upper eyelids. Whether a genetic trait or a result of aging or plastic surgery, Gaddafi had it. The other distinctive feature is some marked 'wrinkles' extending diagonally from the corner of his eyes across his cheek-bones. Check any images of the 'brutal dictator' from the past few years and you'll see these prominent lines in every image.
Now, check out the 'dead Gaddafi':
What happened to the 'drooping eyelids' and the wrinkle lines?
Same man?
In public appearances over the past few years, Gaddafi appeared with a respectable head of hair for a man his age.
Here he is with Berlusconi in 2009:
And another image taken during the same year:
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