Monday, August 22, 2011  Bye bye Gaddafi, well done rebels and
NATO  From the reports overnight, it appears that the Gaddafi
regime is either in tatters or on the verge of engaging a final
bloody battle. I wouldn’t put it past Gaddafi to do the latter,
for the one thing that can be certain of the last 40 years of
his regime, it is his willingness to lie incessantly and to
react murderously on a whim.  There is, of course, great reason
to celebrate the end of Gaddafi. He has spent his whole career
following a megalomaniacal path of personality cult and self-
aggrandisement, considering himself to be leader of Africa (and
getting a semi-polite muted response from most of the rest of
Africa, mainly because it looked forward to gaining some of his
oil wealth in exchange for his friendship) and supporter of
umpteen terrorist causes from around the world. He has over that
period aided, funded and armed plenty from the IRA to the 1970s
Marxist terrorist gangs in the West, such as the Red Army
Faction and Red Brigades