Jamahiriya!
Colonel Khadaffy's Götterdämmerung Last Stand (with a wicked little flash back to Il Duce's bloody demise) raises two worthy quizes.
1st off - where were those hot! Praetorians like the amazing cherry intact Amazonian Guards?
"...The Amazonian Guard
are put through rigorous training at a special academy and if they
make it through the basic training ordeal are experts with firearms and
martial arts making them trained killers. The women who qualify for
duty are required to be virgins and must be hand picked by Qaddafi
himself.
"...There are perks to swearing allegiance and life to Qaddafi. The
Amazonian guard dress in western style fatigues, can wear make up,
western hair styles, high heels, and other clothing not deemed
acceptable in that bit of the world. Their very existence challenges the
role of women in the m"Hammedist world"
Two miles west of Sirte, 15 pick-up
trucks mounted with machine guns lay burned out, smashed and smoldering
next to an electricity substation 20 meters from the main road. They had clearly been hit by a
force far beyond anything the motley army the former rebels has
assembled during eight months of revolt to overthrow the once feared
leader.
No bomb crater, indicating the strike may have been carried out by a fighter jet. Inside the trucks still in their
seats sat the charred skeletal remains of drivers and passengers killed
instantly by the strike. Other bodies lay mutilated and contorted strewn
across the grass. Some 50 bodies in all.
Gaddafi and a handful of his men appeared to have run through a stand of trees and taken refuge in the two drainage pipes. Fallen electricity cables partially
covered the entrance to the pipes and the bodies of three men,
apparently Gaddafi bodyguards lay at the entrance to one end. Four more bodies lay at the other
end of the pipes. All black men, one had his brains blown out, another
man had been decapitated, his dreadlocked head lying beside his torso. Army chief Jabr was also captured alive, NTC officials later announced he was dead.
GsGf's Nat'l Sec Advisor 'splains thusly
"Qaddafi’s inglorious end sends a belated message that the Revenge of the Tyrants
will ultimately fail, Courtney — a powerful reminder that, try as they might, the
region’s despots cannot through blood and brutality forever hold off
history’s harsh judgement. Assad’s head will rest far less easy tonight.
The morale of the Syrian people will receive a much-needed boost to
endure the difficult days that no doubt still lie ahead."
"And perhaps
most importantly, the hard men around Assad who have continued to do his
dirty work, will have new cause to save their own skins by reassessing
their misguided loyalties to a leader who is dragging them and their
community ever closer to catastrophe."
"With a strategic stake in Syria’s
fate that dwarfs our interests in Libya, the Great Satan would be well
advised to exploit the openings created by Qaddafi’s terminus to
re-energize the effort to depose Assad, short-circuit the civil war that
he is struggling mightily to ignite, and deliver a crippling blow to
the Iranian terror machine that so threatens our interests and those of
our allies."
Pic - "Amazonian Guard II"
