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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:39 AM
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Libya's interior minister (who resigned) has been kidnapped
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/23/libya.interior.minister/

I hope they get to him.
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Very_Boring_Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:39 AM
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1. God damn it
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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:52 AM
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2. I'd take any story from Gaddafi's state media with a grain of salt.
He's been frantically spreading disinformation about everything and everyone, including the interior minister. In that long incoherent speech he claimed the interior minister had been "shot with bullets" and "disappeared." Later the interior minister showed up and said he had indeed been shot at, but the would-be assassins missed him.

I'm not saying the story isn't true, but I'd definitely consider the source before placing too much credibility in it. All psychopaths lie, and Gaddafi's a cornered rat right now.
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:54 AM
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3. So, Libyan state television is putting out propaganda in order to explain his disappearance.
That's what it sounds like to me.
And then Libyan state television will probably say that 'the kidnappers' made him say those things that he said about resigning etc.

I haven't seen anything that Libyan state television has shown that was true (other than Gaddafi's live speeches).
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:07 AM
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5. I think they're announcing it to scare other potential defectors.
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:58 AM
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4. I'm with Raksha and Tx4obama
The report is suspect, and I would not lend it any credence.
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