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By all accounts, the Libyan people had few qualms about the violent end of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the brutal tyrant who ruled them with a rod of iron for 42 years.

So why should we in the West object to what appears to have been a summary execution of Gadhafi, even though we still don’t know exactly the circumstances in which he met his end through a shot to the head, and maybe never will?

The Libyan transitional prime minister wants the world to believe that Gadhafi was killed in crossfire between rebels and Gadhafi loyalists, having been captured alive. His golden pistol was snatched by a Libyan, wearing a Yankees cap, who found him in a sewer. This is the stuff that Hollywood films are made of. (Wait, there’s already a movie called “The Man With the Golden Gun”).

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