#gaddafi compound

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He looked like a wizard recovering from an evening of drinking who had wandered into the picture by mistake.

The Washington Post's Alexandra Petri • In a comedic psuedo-obituary to Muammar Gaddafi's career. Petri also notes that Gaddafi often "looked like he’d shot a couch and was wearing it on his back as a trophy, after an intense struggle in which the couch nearly prevailed." There's more to the article than just ribbing the dictator's physical appearance, of course, but those descriptors are just too rich to pass up. source (via • follow)

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Libyan rebel nabs Gaddafi's hat

This rebel made out like a bandit, scoring Muammar Gaddafi's hat during a raid of the likely-soon-to-be-deposed leader's compound. A pretty good memento, if you ask us. The interview gets bittersweet midway through, when the rebel starts recounting the deaths of his friends. The whole thing is worth watching, if only to hear a first-hand account of the rebel experience.  source

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Holy crap. They got *inside* the Gaddafi compound.