Gaddafi's Dream Capital For Africa Pulverised Into A Ruin -- The Independent
The price of liberation is plain to see on every street in the late dictator's home town of Sirte. The place intended be the showplace of a continent is destroyed.
The swaggering architectural ambitions of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi never achieved the stylistic unity reached by Hitler in Berlin, but he had his dreams. And the most cherished of all his projects was to one day see his home town of Sirte turned into the shimmering, futuristic capital of a United Africa.
Well, he lived just long enough to see it – over his shoulder for one last time as he fled on Thursday morning – transformed into a grotesque husk of a city with broken bits of what buildings still stood sticking out from the ground like the shattered remains of the teeth of a mugging victim. It looks today like Ypres in 1915, or Grozny in 1995 after the Russian Army had finished with it.
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Update: Kadhafi's last-stand hometown littered with bodies -- AFP
My Comment: It could all have been avoided .... but like Hitler in Berlin .... Gaddafi wanted his last stand to be destructive and bloody .... and he got what he wished for.
For some incredible pictures that illustrate the fight and destruction of Sirte .... go here.
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