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[olemars]

This is going to make a great movie some day. Apparently Ghaddafi tried to have his interior minister killed in his own home today (Ghaddafi even said in his speech that the interior minister had died in an accident), but the hitmen missed and he escaped. He's now joined the rebels and asking all army and security forces to take down Ghaddafi.

[Virex]

This is going to make a great movie some day. Apparently Ghaddafi tried to have his interior minister killed in his own home today (Ghaddafi even said in his speech that the interior minister had died in an accident), but the hitmen missed and he escaped. He's now joined the rebels and asking all army and security forces to take down Ghaddafi.

Great I know who the next dictator of Libya will be

[Aqizzar]

This is going to make a great movie some day. Apparently Ghaddafi tried to have his interior minister killed in his own home today (Ghaddafi even said in his speech that the interior minister had died in an accident), but the hitmen missed and he escaped. He's now joined the rebels and asking all army and security forces to take down Ghaddafi.

I want to see a source on this.  Mainly because I desperately want it to be true, because it's just too goddamn hilarious.  I mean, you could make up a better story if you tried.

[olemars]

http://twitter.com/#!/SultanAlQassemi - Read back the last hour or so. It's the interior minister's own claims though. Doesn't necessarily have to be true.

[Nadaka]

yep, now all you need is a handsome young American/British agent to get in, save the day with his laser watch/ordinary fountain pen and a nice instrumental score.

[DJ]

What I don't understand is how anyone is still loyal to him, other than his Sisters of Battle.

[olemars]

The mercs are paid hard cash for their loyalty. The rest are either so attached to the regime they can't survive without it, or they are members of his clan/tribe.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

At least some of the mercs have gotten sort-of-slaughtered by the revolutionaries by now, and the whole country is shutting down. I'd be running for an unguarded border crossing by now if I was one of them.

[Aqizzar]

At least some of the mercs have gotten sort-of-slaughtered by the revolutionaries by now, and the whole country is shutting down. I'd be running for an unguarded border crossing by now if I was one of them.

That should pretty much shut them down, provided it's any significant number.  A mercenary's first priority is to stay alive, preferably long enough to get paid.  If the scene looks too dangerous, they're going steal whatever they can and run like Hell.  Although I just heard a live report that at least some mercenaries are now bargaining for money from both sides, if not for their own lives and safe passage, by taking hostages from the anti-government forces.

[Nadaka]

If schlock mercenary has taught me anything it is this: The only thing better than living long enough to get paid, is getting paid twice for the same job.

[Puzzlemaker]

This is going to make a great movie some day. Apparently Ghaddafi tried to have his interior minister killed in his own home today (Ghaddafi even said in his speech that the interior minister had died in an accident), but the hitmen missed and he escaped. He's now joined the rebels and asking all army and security forces to take down Ghaddafi.

I want to see a source on this.  Mainly because I desperately want it to be true, because it's just too goddamn hilarious.  I mean, you could make up a better story if you tried.

Well, looking around it looks like this is quite possibly true.

Holy shit, that is hilarious and depressing.  Wow.

[Bouchart]

I don't like how Khadaffi has been around for over four decades and nobody is sure how exactly to spell his name.  I spell it the way I learned it in middle or high school.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I don't like how Khadaffi has been around for over four decades and nobody is sure how exactly to spell his name.  I spell it the way I learned it in middle or high school.

I'm not good enough at linguistics to give an extact reasoning behind it, but according to this his various name-spellings come about from a fundamental difference between English and Arabic. I would have to assume this is also why you see spellings like Quran/Koran/Qu'ran as well.

[Vector]

Because g is often the sign for a rolled r in the back of the throat, which can be confused with another glottal sound--kh.  "Gaza" sounds more like "raza."  "Arabic" sounds a little bit like "rarabic," though the letter involved in that case is completely different.  Then, don't let me get into the four different sounds that could all be appropriated to g, h, or kh...

Arabic has no G sound, and we have no glottal Q' sound, so there's a lot of confusion between the two.

[Bouchart]

Yeah I know Arabic and English are very different languages but I'd like for some linguists to come together and agree on one spelling for this kind of thing.