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The Folly and Hypocrisy of Occupy Wall Street Crowd

By: Elmer Williams

Occupy Wall Street Crowd is just pathetic at best and dangerous at worst. First they say that they are upset with the Millionaires, and they are on “a Millionaire March”. They are passing by the homes of New York’s wealthiest residents, because they are upset about the 2 percent “millionaires’ tax” that is expiring. This is according to a story on Fox News website. What I don’t understand is that if they are so upset with Wall Street and all the rich people. Why are they being so selective in their picketing? Nancy Pelosi and the “Chosen One” Barack Hussein Obama just recently gave another $737 million dollars to Tonopah Solar Energy. The dirty little secret is the Nancy Pelosi’s brother Ronald Pelosi is second in command at PCG Clean Energy & Amp; Technology Fund (East). You may ask what does that have to do with Tonopah. I’m glad you asked. Tonopah is a subsidiary of Solar Reserve which gets it’s financial backing from PCG Clean Energy & Amp; Technology Fund (East). All this happen after the Solyndra fiasco. Why don’t Occupy Wall Street march against Nancy and her brother Ronald. Why don’t they protest Timothy Geithner and Henry Paulson who said all the bailouts would help the economy? Also protest George Bush and Barack Obama for signing off on the taxpayer’s money on these bailouts. How about protesting George Soros who himself intentionally makes attempt to destroy Countries. Why not protest against Bill Gates and Larry Page who admitted to hiding millions of dollars over seas. No these bunch of hypocrites pick and choose what millionaires they will protest. Michelle Malkin had an article entitled “Costs of the Occupiers” were she out lines the cost that these people are costing the taxpayer. She writes “In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter told the press that demonstrators outside city hall have incurred $164,000 in overtime public employee costs and $237,000 in regular time. How is this type of action beneficial to their cause and how does this punish the Wall Street folks they are attempting to punish. Maybe they should rethink their strategy on making a point against the establishment. In Boston and Seattle they are becoming rowdy which will be the next thing that kills all of their efforts to make a valid point. I just am some what perplexed at why they are not upset at the Obama Administration. Unemployment is at 9.2 percent. The only solution that Mr. Obama is offering is we should spend more money. Mr. President has taken over company after company and the results are only more failure to the economy. My question is to the media whose job I thought was just simply to report the news. Why did the Common Sense Media cover the Tea Party with the same type of love and admiration? Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6628899

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Obama Posturing for Re-election- Promises Withdrawal from Iraq

By Dave Boyer
Associated Press

Saturday, October 22, 2011

It took President Obama’s reelection campaign a little more than 24 hours to try to capitalize on the president’s announcement that he is withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year.
In an email to supporters Saturday afternoon, Obama for America policy director James Kvaal said, “we accomplished one major change” with the president’s announcement on Friday.
“The war in Iraq was a divisive, defining issue in our country for nearly nine years, and was the catalyst for many Americans to get involved in politics for the first time,” Mr. Kvaal said. “Now, thanks to the actions of this President, we can say that conflict is coming to a close.”
Mr. Obama announced all U.S. troops would come home by Dec. 31, after negotiations with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Malikifailed to produce an agreement on the question of immunity for American soldiers in that country. The administration originally had planned to keep several thousand troops in Iraq into 2012 to help with training of Iraqi forces.
The decision brings to a conclusion a war that has lasted nearly nine years, claimed the lives of more than 4,400 U.S. soldiers and cost more than $800 billion. Mr. Obama campaigned in 2008 on the promise to end the war in Iraq, which he once referred to as “stupid.”
Mr. Kvaal reminded supporters that the president is also bringing troops home from Afghanistan, and that the week “also marked the definitive end” of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya. Rebel forces killed Col. Gadhafi as he fled in a convoy from his hometown.
“These outcomes are an example of what happens when a leader sets a plan and sees it through,” Mr. Kvaal said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/22/obama-policy-director-we-accomplished-one-major-ch/

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Why don’t Occupy Wall Street Protest GE

G.E. Profits Are in Line With Analysts’ Outlook

By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: October 21, 2011

General Electric, the nation’s largest industrial company, said on Friday that it had higher net earnings for the third quarter, but price pressures in its energy business squeezed profit margins in an economic environment that the company’s chief executive described as “volatile.”

The company reported net income of $3.2 billion in the July-September period, up 57 percent compared with the same period in 2010. A large part of that leap, however, resulted from a significant one-time charge last year related to G.E.’s discontinued consumer finance unit in Japan.
The company said it had operating earnings per share of 31 cents in the third quarter, up 11 percent from 2010 and exactly in line with expectations of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
That excluded the 8-cents-per-share impact of its payback of Berkshire Hathaway’s investment, made in October 2008 when G.E. was being battered by the financial crisis. The cash infusion was repaid this month for $3.3 billion. But the company said it expected that the payback would improve annualized earnings per share by 3 cents a share in future quarters. Revenue for the period was $35.4 billion, which the company described as flat compared with the third quarter of 2010. Analysts had forecast $34.93 billion in revenue, according to a survey compiled by Thomson Reuters.
Jeffrey R. Immelt, G.E.’s chief executive, said the company was pleased with the results, the sixth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in operating earnings, in what he called a “volatile macro environment.”
“We ended the quarter with a record high order backlog of $191 billion and we remain confident in our full-year 2011 operating framework,” he said in a statement.
In a conference call with analysts, Mr. Immelt said G.E. expected “solid” double-digit operating earnings for the year, with improved margins in the company’s energy business.
Profits fell 9 percent in the third quarter in the energy unit, to $1.5 billion, with the wind turbine business driving margins down, mostly because of competition and weakness in new orders.
“It was the largest driver of the margin pressure,” said Keith S. Sherin, G.E.’s chief financial officer, in an interview.
Richard Tortoriello, an analyst at S&P Capital IQ, said he thought the company reported a good quarter “given the kind of ups and downs that we see in the economic news.”
“The hit there was the lower-priced wind turbine shipments,” he said. “Prices reflect when orders are booked, and it takes a while for prices to improve.”
But Jeffrey T. Sprague, an analyst with Vertical Research Partners, called the results disappointing.
“The company is reporting very good order growth but you are seeing very intense competition for orders,” Mr. Sprague said. “You have got poorly priced products in the backlog that, when you begin delivering, it pressures the margins.”
G.E. had been expecting its business for power generation equipment to improve this year. Industrial orders grew in the third quarter, but the rate slowed to 16 percent.
Mr. Sherin said the data on long cycle equipment business could be “lumpy” and that orders for the first three quarters of the year were “very strong.” He said the company expected a strong fourth quarter in the energy business that would continue in 2012.
The earnings report provided a glimpse into the company’s progress in overhauling its diverse range of businesses. With its global reach, it also gives a snapshot into how business is faring in the United States and around the world.
The strongest industrial growth for large American manufacturers has recently come from abroad, but in the past month the debt crisis in Europe has caused concern about economic prospects. Mr. Sherin said in the call that G.E. was monitoring the situation in Europe closely.
Other industrial companies also have announced results. Honeywell International reported Friday that earnings rose 45 percent, to $1.10 a share, and it raised its 2011 outlook.
“Despite signals of slower economic growth, we expect positive organic growth to continue the rest of this year and into 2012,” said David M. Cote, the chairman and chief executive of Honeywell.
United Technologies reported this week that its earnings per share for the third quarter were $1.47, up 13 percent compared with the same quarter in 2010. The company also raised its full-year outlook.
Industrials rose nearly 2 percent on Wall Street. General Electric closed down nearly 2 percent at $16.31. Honeywell rose more than 5 percent to $51.28.
G.E., based in Fairfield, Conn., said that in the third quarter, its industrial segments had $23.4 billion in revenue, up 19 percent. International revenue was up by 25 percent, driven by growth in Brazil, Russia, China, India, Canada, Mexico and the Middle East.
But it has been gradually paring back its finance business, GE Capital, as part of a long-term strategy to rely more on its core industrial units. In the third quarter, GE Capital showed a 1 percent rise in revenue to $12 billion.
GE Capital earned about $1.5 billion in the third quarter, up 79 percent compared with the same quarter in 2010, because of lower credit costs and improved margins, the company said. Mr. Sherin said commercial real estate pared its losses to $82 million.
After the financial crisis, G.E. cut its dividend in 2009, the first time it did so since the Great Depression. Since then, it has raised its dividend three times, to 60 cents a share.
“When we get into the second or third year of the recovery, the longer cycle business will start to produce good returns,” said Mr. Tortoriello, the S&P Capital analyst. “That is why we are going to see significant earnings growth in G.E. in 2012 which we may not see from industrial companies in general because of the slowing growth in the economy.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/business/ge-profit-up-despite-volatile-economy.html?_r=1

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A former al-Qaida Leader could come forward as new Leader of Libya

Thursday, 20 Oct 2011 07:43 PM

By Martin Gould and Ashley Martella

The death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi could create a vacuum that a whole new slew of Islamic terrorists and would-be despots seek to fill, says award-winning journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview.

There is a grave risk that the fractious nation divided along tribal lines could fracture or further weaken, creating a new breeding ground for terrorists, says de Borchgrave, who is on the board of LIGNET.com, a new Washington, DC-based intelligence analysis and forecasting service.

Already, there is tension from the Islamist fighters of the Tripoli Military Council, and also of the militias of the city of Misrata who played a key military role in toppling Gaddafi and killing him. Islamists, led by several charismatic clerics, are better organizing that many other groups.

”One very disturbing element is the fact that a former al-Qaida terrorist by the name of Abdul Hakim Belhadj, who the CIA renditioned into Thailand where he was tortured, is now back in his original stomping ground.

“Libya is where he was head of al-Qaida underground. Now he’s above ground and commander of the Tripoli garrison.”

Belhadj is the former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). As an engineering student in Tripoli he was opposed to the Gadhafi regime and was attracted to political Islam.

In the 1980s, he left Libya for Afghanistan where he fought as a mujahideen against Soviet forces. There, with other Libyans, he formed the LIFG to confront the Gadhafi regime and, according to some experts, formed links to al-Qaida.

In an exclusive interview, de Borchgrave, a founding board member of Newsmax.com, also says that:
• Gadhafi’s death will do little to help world oil prices in the short term as the country has to rebuild its infrastructure before it can restart pumping at full capacity.
• The search is on for the millions – possibly billions – of dollars that Gadhafi expropriated from his oil-rich nation.
• Syria is unlikely to follow Libya soon because of that country’s well-organized military and intelligence services.
• The recently uncovered Iranian plot to kill a Saudi ambassador “has an aroma of rotten fish, because it is not quite the way it’s been made out to be.”
De Borchgrave thinks Libya is facing a very momentous reconstruction effort that will slow the flow of oil.

“We are talking about half a year or a full year before everything gets repaired and in working order,” he told Newsmax.

De Borchgrave, who spent 30 years with Newsweek, was the first journalist to interview Gadhafi after he overthrew King Idris in 1969. He went on to interview him five more times.

“He was very engaging,” said de Borchgrave, now senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, editor at large at United Press International and The Washington Times, and a Newsmax correspondent.

“I have had many private, off-the-record conversations with him. One was actually reading a message to Jim Woolsey when he was director of the CIA back in 1993 because at that point he was very concerned about Islamist extremism growing in the eastern part of their country.

“He wanted to make sure that he and the CIA were on the same wavelength about Islamist extremism. He demonstrated this by cooperating with the agency on some of those problems that were attendant to extremism.”

But despite that cooperation, de Borchgrave describes Gadhafi’s death as “a major plus for Libya.”

“Gadhafi’s been a big thorn in the side of the entire globe. He has used subversion and lavishly funded extremism underground – what I’ve called disinformation – to destabilize regimes that he was trying to overthrow, to help those who were in the business of replacing them.

“He’s been a big nuisance all over the world and I think everybody’s delighted to see him go.”

De Borchgrave said now the search is on for the millions – possibly billions – of dollars that Gadhafi expropriated from his oil-rich nation.

“I have no idea who will wind up with it because what he has underground, I think it’s about $70 million, has to be found first. As to what he has around the world in various deposits, I would imagine that will take a long time to adjudicate,” he said.

Looking to the future, de Borchgrave said he does not believe that Gadhafi’s downfall will mean that the regime in Syria will follow.
“Syria has a very strong secret police intelligence apparatus that controls the country that has killed about 33,500 people so far in putting down the countrywide rebellion.

“It also controls the country through its 14 intelligence services a lot better than Gadhafi controlled Libya.” He said Syria’s “mild-mannered” leader Bashar al-Assad is not the real power in that country. “It’s a younger brother who is very tough and a chip off the old block.”

De Borchgrave also said there are many questions to be asked about the alleged Iranian plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador to Washington. He agreed with conservative commentator Pat Buchanan who told Newsmax on Wednesday that the plot smelled fishy.

“I’d say it has an aroma of rotten fish, because it is not quite the way it’s been made out to be,” said de Borchgrave. “In fact there are indications today that the famous operative that was allegedly working for Iran’s Quds force – that’s the branch of the military that deals with spreading terrorism abroad and helping terrorist movements abroad – could very well have been from a totally different organization that has very little to do with Tehran.”

And he said neither the U.S nor Saudi Arabia has an incentive to attack Iran even if the plot were real. “Everybody’s being very careful not to take Iran to the edge of a military showdown,” he said.

“The three former CENTCOM commanders that I know and have spoken publicly about this, Gen. (Anthony) Zinni, Gen (John) Abizaid and Adm. (William) Fallon, all three have said we should learn to live with an Iranian nuclear bomb.

“By that they mean that Iran is surrounded by four of the world’s eight nuclear powers, they’re an ancient civilization and they also have formidable asymmetrical retaliatory capabilities up and down the entire Persian Gulf. They can close the Straits of Hormuz, obviously not for long, but just the very fact that it was closed, even for a short period, would treble oil prices around the world.”

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/gadaffi-obama-libya-video/2011/10/20/id/415255/

Newsmax.com: De Borchgrave: Former al-Qaida Leader Emerging as Strongman in Libya

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Russia is against Gaddafi's Death

Gaddafi’s death breached the law, says Russia
World Reaction
By Shaun Walker in Moscow
Saturday, 22 October 2011

We have to lean on facts and international laws,” Mr Lavrov said. “They say that a captured participant of an armed conflict should be treated in a certain way. And in any case, a prisoner of war should not be killed.”
Russia has been critical of Nato military action in Libya, saying that it has gone well beyond the stated mission of saving civilian life. The main concern for Moscow now is whether the new Libyan authorities will honour contracts signed by the Gaddafi regime. As well as the oil and arms trade, Russian Railways had secured a £2bn contract to construct a railway line between Sirte and Benghazi. Moscow recognised the National Transitional Council as the official government of Libya last month and said it expected all existing contracts to be honoured.
China, which like Russia abstained in the Security Council vote on whether to use force against Colonel Gaddafi’s troops, was quicker yesterday to change its tune. Beijing initially refused to support the rebels and had been highly critical of the bombing campaign. But as realities on the ground altered, in recent weeks the Chinese government had started to engage with the rebel movement.
“A new page has been turned in the history of Libya,” a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, said yesterday. “We hope Libya will rapidly embark on an inclusive political process … and allow the people to live in peace and happiness,” she said.
A sign of the official policy change could be discerned in the language that Chinese state media used to refer to Colonel Gaddafi. Newspapers and agencies run by the state, which had previously referred to a “Middle East strongman”, had yesterday made a small but significant change to their phrasing, calling him a “madman” instead.
Reaction from other enemies of the US was varied. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez described the dead dictator as a “martyr”, while Iran’s foreign ministry tried to banish any parallels between the Libyan revolution and anti-government protests at home. “Despots and oppressors throughout history have no fate other than destruction and death,” a spokesman said. He called Colonel Gaddafi’s killing a “great victory” but added that all foreign forces must now pull out of the country.
And the eccentric Russian politician Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is also the head of the World Chess Federation, said that Colonel Gaddafi’s death was a “tragedy” but that he died as a martyr and would be reincarnated.
Mr Ilyumzhinov made a surreal mission to Tripoli in June, where he met with Colonel Gaddafi as an unofficial mediator and played a game of chess with him. Yesterday, he said in a Russian newspaper interview that he had spoken to the Libyan leader numerous times on the phone since. He claimed that Colonel Gaddafi had not been scared of death: “Not a bit! He believed in reincarnation.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gaddafis-death-breached-the-law-says-russia-2374250.html

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Muammar Qaddafi Dead ( I Smell a Snake)

Al Jazeera: Muammar Gaddafi dead – video

Libyans rejoiced and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief Thursday at news of the death of ousted leader Muammar Qaddafi, but details of his capture and killing remained in dispute.
His convoy was hit by NATO airstrikes but not destroyed. And he later was captured alive in his hometown of Sirte. However, numerous reports — often contradictory — continue to surface about how he was captured and how he ended up dead, apparently from a bullet to the head.
Secretary of state: Death would bring ‘sigh of relief’ to Libyan people

Walid Phares examines big picture after reported death of Muammar Qaddafi
A U.S. Predator drone was involved in the airstrike on Muammar Qaddafi’s convoy Thursday in the moments before his death, as he tried to escape Sirte, a U.S. defense official told Fox News.
The official said the drone, along with a French fighter jet, fired on the “large convoy.” A French defense official earlier said about 80 vehicles were in the convoy — the official said the strike did not destroy the convoy but that fighters on the ground afterward intercepted the vehicle carrying Qaddafi. He was later killed, reportedly in the crossfire between Qaddafi supporters and opponents as he was being transferred.
Arab broadcasters showed graphic images of the balding, goateed Gadhafi — wounded, with a bloodied face and shirt — but alive, as he was pushed around by a crowd of revolutionaries. Later video showed fighters rolling Qaddafi’s lifeless body over on the pavement, stripped to the waist and a pool of blood under his head.

Standing, he was shoved along a Sirte road by fighters who chanted “God is great.” Qaddafi appears to struggle against them, stumbling and shouting as the fighters push him onto the hood of a pickup truck.
He was driven around lying on the hood of a truck, according to the video. One fighter is seen holding him down, pressing on his thigh with a pair of shoes in a show of contempt.
“We want him alive. We want him alive,” one man shouted before Qaddafi is dragged away, some fighters pulling his hair, toward an ambulance.
Most accounts agreed Qaddafi had been holed up with heavily armed supporters in the last few buildings held by regime loyalists in the Mediterranean coastal town, where revolutionary fighters have been trying prevail for more than a month.
At one point, a convoy tried to flee and was hit by NATO airstrikes, carried out by French warplanes. France’s Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said the 80-vehicle convoy was carrying Qaddafi and was trying to escape the city. The strikes stopped the convoy but did not destroy it, and then revolutionary fighters moved in on Qaddafi.
One fighter who said he was at the battle told AP Television News that the final fight took place at an opulent compound. Adel Busamir said the convoy tried to break out but after being hit, it turned back and re-entered the compound. Several hundred fighters attacked.
“We found him there,” Busamir said of Qaddafi. “We saw them beating him (Qaddafi) and someone shot him with a 9mm pistol … then they took him away.”
Military spokesman Col. Ahmed Bani in Tripoli told Al-Jazeera TV that a wounded Qaddafi “tried to resist (revolutionary forces) so they took him down.”
Fathi Bashaga, spokesman for the Misrata military council, whose forces were involved in the battle, said fighters encircled the convoy and exchanged fire. In one vehicle, they found Qaddafi, wounded in the neck, and took him to an ambulance. “What do you want?” Qaddafi asked the approaching revolutionaries, Bashaga said, citing witnesses.
Qaddafi bled to death from his wounds a half-hour later, he said. Fighters said he died in the ambulance en route to Misrata, 120 miles from Sirte.
Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, a doctor who accompanied the body in the ambulance and examined it, said Qaddafi died from two bullet wounds — to the head and chest.
“You can’t imagine my happiness today. I can’t describe my happiness,” he told The Associated Press. “The tyranny is gone. Now the Libyan people can rest.”
The account given by Jibril after a coroner’s investigation said Qaddafi was seized unharmed from a drainage pipe but was then shot in the hand and put in a pickup truck. In ensuing crossfire, Qaddafi was shot in the head, the government account said.
According to an account from Hassan Doua, a commander whose fighters found Qaddafi, the former leader already was wounded in the chest when he was seized near a large drainage pipe, and then was put in the ambulance.
Amnesty International urged the revolutionary fighters to report the full facts of how Qaddafi died, saying all members of the former regime should be treated humanely. The London-based rights group said it was essential to conduct “a full, independent and impartial inquiry to establish the circumstances of Col. Qaddafi’s death.”
After his death, Qaddafi’s body was paraded through the streets of Misrata on top of a vehicle surrounded by a large crowd chanting, “The blood of the martyrs will not go in vain,” according to footage aired on Al-Arabiya television. The fighters who killed Qaddafi are believed to have come from Misrata, a city that suffered a brutal weeks-long siege by Qaddafi’s forces during the eight-month civil war.
Celebratory gunfire and cries of “God is great” rang out across Tripoli. Motorists honked and people hugged each other. In Sirte, the ecstatic former rebels celebrated the city’s fall after weeks of fighting by firing endless rounds into the sky, pumping their guns, knives and even a meat cleaver in the air and singing the national anthem.
“We would have wanted him alive for trial. But personally, I think it is better he died,” Bashaga said.
The capture of Sirte, the death of Qaddafi, and the death and capture of his two most powerful sons, gives the transitional leaders confidence to declare the entire country “liberated.”
It rules out a scenario some had feared — that Qaddafi might flee deep into Libya’s southern deserts and lead a resistance campaign.
Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam told AP that Muatassim Qaddafi was killed in Sirte. Abdel-Aziz, the doctor who accompanied Qaddafi’s body in the ambulance, said Muatassim was shot in the chest.
The justice minister said Qaddafi’s son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, had been wounded in the leg and was being held in a hospital in the city of Zlitan, northwest of Sirte. Shammam said Seif was captured in Sirte.
Following the fall of Tripoli on Aug. 21, Qaddafi loyalists mounted fierce resistance in several areas, including Sirte, preventing Libya’s new leaders from declaring full victory. Earlier this week, revolutionary fighters gained control of one stronghold, Bani Walid.
By Tuesday, fighters said they had squeezed Qaddafi’s forces in Sirte into a residential area of about 700 square yards but were still coming under heavy fire from surrounding buildings.
In an illustration of how heavy the fighting has been, it took the anti-Qaddafi fighters two days to capture a single residential building.
Reporters watched as the final assault began around 8 a.m. Thursday and ended about 90 minutes later. Just before the battle, about five carloads of Qaddafi loyalists tried to flee the enclave down the coastal highway that leads out of the city. But they were met by gunfire from the revolutionaries, who killed at least 20 of them.
Col. Roland Lavoie, spokesman for NATO’s operational headquarters in Naples, Italy, said the alliance’s aircraft struck two vehicles of pro-Qaddafi forces “which were part of a larger group maneuvering in the vicinity of Sirte.”
After the battle, revolutionaries began searching homes and buildings looking for any hiding Qaddafi fighters. At least 16 were captured, along with cases of ammunition and trucks loaded with weapons. Reporters saw revolutionaries beating captured Qaddafi men in the back of trucks and officers intervening to stop them.
The fighters looking like the same ragtag force that started the uprising jumped up and down with joy and flashed V-for-victory signs. Some burned the green Qaddafi flag, then stepped on it with their boots.
They chanted “God is great” while one fighter climbed a traffic light pole to unfurl the revolution’s flag, which he first kissed. Discarded military uniforms of Qaddafi’s fighters littered the streets. One revolutionary fighter waved a silver trophy in the air while another held up a box of firecrackers, then set them off.
“Our forces control the last neighborhood in Sirte,” Hassan Draoua, a member of Libya’s interim National Transitional Council, told the AP in Tripoli. “The city has been liberated.”
President Barack Obama said Qaddafi’s death marked the end of a “long and painful chapter” for the people of Libya.
“You have won your revolution,” Obama said during an afternoon briefing in Washington, adding that the U.S. and its allies stopped Qaddafi’s “forces in their tracks.”
Britain’s jets and helicopters backed the rebels during the NATO campaign, and the government on Thursday promised assistance to Libya’s new leaders.
“Today is a day to remember all of Qaddafi’s victims,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said, referring to those in Libya and also the 270 people — mainly British and American — killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.
The only person charged in the bombing, former Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was freed from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds in 2009 because of illness. He remains alive and in Libya.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., said Qaddafi’s death marks “the promise of a new” Libya.
“The United States demonstrated clear-eyed leadership, patience, and foresight by pushing the international community into action after Qaddafi promised a massacre,” the Massachusetts senator said in a statement. “Though the Administration was criticized both for moving too quickly and for not moving quickly enough, it is undeniable that the NATO campaign prevented a massacre and contributed mightily to Qaddafi’s undoing without deploying boots on the ground or suffering a single American fatality. This is a victory for multilateralism and successful coalition-building in defiance of those who derided NATO and predicted a very different outcome.”

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/20/muammar-qaddafi-captured-in-libya-commander-says/#ixzz1bO9UXWlQ