22 October 2011

All in the name of humanity

A windy morning and an exhilarating pre-dawn run.
After 6 months of NATO assistance, Colonel Gaddafi has finally been found and killed. Accounts of what actually happened are predictably contradictory and confusing. Much of the Western media are bravely managing to illustrate their censorious comments about his inhumane death with endless images of his corpse, so we can see repeatedly just how inhumane it was. And the US government has joined demands for further details of how he was killed, according to a report in the NYT. That’s the same US government that, having watched the summary execution of Osama bin Laden live on video, went on to issue contradictory and confusing accounts of what happened to him too (ref), so it's clearly a big issue for them.

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