Col. Gaddaffi's Son killed by NATO Airstrike.

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**micahaphone**

malfred wrote:Just a thought:

Might Gaddafi deliberately keep family nearby as shields? I don't really know.

I wouldn't put it past him.

**Emperors Faithful**

Kanluwen wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:It wasn't Gaddafi they were going after. It was his son, the next in line to seize power and one of Gaddafi's command echelon. We can't know for certain, but there have been rumors that like any third-world scumbag Gaddafi and his sons were entirely capable of running their operations out of their homes and specifically had their homes outfitted so that they could serve as command centers.

If you're going to make a claim like that it should probably be backed up with evidence.

Gaddafi's sons were reported to constantly have their families moving around and any real time intelligence is likely quickly to be invalidated because of this.

Again, there should be some sort of source to support this.

Just like you should back up a claim that it was done intentionally, with no consideration of repercussions, perhaps.

I'm going off news reports from CNN at the beginning of the whole Libyan intervention. Gaddafi's sons are heavily involved in his activities--just like Saddam Hussein's sons were.

They're going to be targets, and they know it.

That first part comes across a bit too hostile.

It's not my intent. I'm just saying that to think that the collateral damage was done intentionally is silly. But it's inevitable in a situation like this.

You seem to misunderstand my point. I never argued that Gaddafi's sons were not liable to be targetted. But I don't see how the home of one of them can be seen as a command and control center, nor is there evidence to suggest that they move their family around too much for them to be taken into account.

**Kanluwen**

Emperors Faithful wrote:
You seem to misunderstand my point. I never argued that Gaddafi's sons were not liable to be targetted. But I don't see how the home of one of them can be seen as a command and control center, nor is there evidence to suggest that they move their family around too much for them to be taken into account.

Like I said: there, early on, was bragging from the sons that they'd "made their families impossible to be targeted by the rebels and NATO both" and that they "could run the war from their own homes".

It could also simply be that they sourced radio/cell phone traffic via ELINT operations to the villa and decided to hit it.

**Melissia**

malfred wrote:Just a thought:

Might Gaddafi deliberately keep family nearby as shields? I don't really know.

It's already been reported that his forces are doing such. That's kinda why the airstrikes petered out for a bit.