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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 05:40 PM
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Gaddafi is paranoid and on the run, MI6 tells David Cameron
Source: The Guardian

David Cameron has been told by UK intelligence that Muammar Gaddafi is increasingly paranoid, on the run, and hiding in hospitals by night with senior commanders in the regime unable to communicate with one another.

The reports from MI6 relayed to the cabinet's national security council this week prompted Cameron to authorise a high-risk escalation of attacks by agreeing in principle to deploy four Apache helicopters into Libya with orders to gun down Libyan regime leaders and assets hiding in built-up areas.

The French had leaked that Britain was likely to deploy helicopters, but the Whitehall ministerial decision was only made today.

The decision was confirmed by British officials attending the G8 summit of world leaders. Diplomatic sources, sounding more confident than at any point since the air assaults, claimed: "He is on the run."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/26/gaddafi-paranoid-run-cameron
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 05:44 PM
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1. Kind of a creepy repeat...
Isn't that basically what happened to Saddam Hussein?
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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 05:46 PM
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2. Must be concerned about getting the OBL treatment..
I suspect he sleeps rather lightly.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 05:47 PM
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3. Paranoid my ass. On the run I can well believe.
But he definitely does have people out to get him.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:18 PM
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5. no kidding.
Paranoid means you have imaginary people out to get you. Qaddaffi really does have people out to get him, so he ain't paranoid.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:29 PM
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6. What if he suspects his long-time confidants?
That would be paranoia.
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reorg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:34 PM
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8. you mean those who are leading the "rebels"? n/t
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:35 PM
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9. Only if they were really still his friends.
You would have to be nuts not to be worried in his situation. I think he is nuts, but not because he might be worried right now, he would have to be a moron to feel secure.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:50 PM
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11. Many of them may be, quite sensibly, considering throwing him to the ICC
as a bargain for them being able to stay in Libya, and maybe even take part in a new government. It's just about only his sons he can fully trust now, I think.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 07:13 PM
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13. Yes...one could be considered to be "paranoid" for supporting USA as a puppet
and wondering why we are just NOW turning on him. He's stupid if he doesn't understand how "puppets" can be deposed...back to the British Empire..(and, in many ways they were kinder that USA) in how "depostions" were carried out.

BE AFRAID DICTATORS and LEAKERS all across the WORLD! Truly...your life is limited.
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dimbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 09:14 PM
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17. He has both. Real and imaginary. The next step beyond paranoid:
Hard to say.
Would it be para-exasperated?
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WheelWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 07:40 PM
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14. My psychiatrist once told me, "If you're not a little paranoid, you're crazy."
Edited on Thu May-26-11 07:42 PM by WheelWalker
True story.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 07:59 PM
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15. Yeah, it's like you are supposed to think being gullible is a good thing. nt
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 12:26 AM
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20. My thought too
He has the greatest powers of the world trying to use their most high tech weapons to assassinate him. What's he supposed to be doing?
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:00 PM
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4. Kick
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:32 PM
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7. Cool! Obama and Nato Kicked his Butt....Killed his kid and three grandkids...That Taught Him!.
"Those Who Bring You to Power...WILL TAKE YOU DOWN!" Good that the Dictator see's his END DAYS COMING!

GOOD on OBAMA and the FORCES OF BRINGING MIGHT against POWERS that WE INSTALL get their JUST END!

WOO HOO...OUR POWER KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES. WE WILL BRING DEMOCRACY TO THE WORLD!

It's AMAZING what OUR POWER IS! WE SHOULD ALL BE PROUD! USA...USA...NATO ALLIANCE...You get GREAT KUDO's for DOING THIS!
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 04:08 AM
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21. Killed his kid and three grandkids...That Taught Him ?.
You're sick.
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 07:56 AM
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22. A variant of Poe's Law?
(but if it was serious then I'm with you ...)

:shrug:
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 06:37 PM
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10. in other words, the only difference with Cheney being that ol' Dick isn't on the run?
But, of course, should be...
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 07:09 PM
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12. I saw Henry Kissinger (must weigh over 300 lbs) on MSNBC Pontificating
and I wonder why Michell'es "Move Campaign" hasn't caught on with Cheney, Kissinger, Limbaugh and some of the other Repug...Hefty Weights.. Like those brothers.."Mr. Moral Majority and the one who defended Clinton against Monica...(can't remember their names for this quick reply) ...maybe some other DU'ers will remember.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 08:14 PM
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16. Huh...and people say he's crazy...
Sounds pretty sane to me.
As the old joke goes: just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 09:32 PM
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18. I hope every time he hears anything that sounds like helicopter rotors...
out there, that mofo feels paranoid, indeed...
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 11:36 PM
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19. The western bullies
are out to get another Arab and his oil,oh the stupidity of the public that ignore the racism of the Europeans and their American pals.
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jimmie Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 04:43 PM
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23. Right , and his people really love him too...
pray tell, are they racists and bullies too?
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 04:50 PM
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24. You ever get the feeling you're no longer wanted?
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