Muammar Gaddafi Killed, Captured By New York Yankees Fan!

The longtime reign of terror in Libya is now over. And it was a man sporting a hat supporting Major League Baseball’s evil empire who helped bring it about. Muammar Gaddafi was captured in his hometown of Sirte early Thursday.

A man wearing a New York Yankees hat was among the mob that led to Muammar Gaddafi‘s seizing, and execution.

Now both Al Jazeera and Libyan state television confirm that the Libyan dictator was killed during that gunbattle in Sirte. A senior National Transitional Council official, Abdel Majid, told Reuters that Gaddafi died of wounds suffered at his capture in Sirte. Reuters reports that he was wounded in both legs as he “tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked.”

According to the AP

Libyan fighters drove the last holdouts of Moammar Gadhafi out of his hometown of Sirte in a few hours of fierce gunbattles Thursday, then declared victory over the last major resistance two months after the fall of Tripoli. The ecstatic former rebels celebrated by firing endless rounds into the sky, pumping their guns, knives and even a meat cleaver in the air and singing the national anthem.

For more, watch the video at the Huffington Post

The photo above is running on multiple sports blogs including Busted Coverage.

Here’s another pic of the man, and excerpt from the BBC blog describing him via Deadspin

Mohammed, a young fighter in his 20s, wearing a blue T-shirt and a New York Yankees baseball cap, said he had found the colonel hiding in a hole in the ground in the city of Sirte. He told the BBC that the former Libyan leader said to him simply: ‘Don’t shoot’.”

The capture and death of Col. Gaddafi means one of our four wars is now over. Well, I thought we finished the gig in Afghanistan by getting Osama bin Laden, but maybe not so much. And we still have to close the deal in Iraq and Uganda- whatever those deals truly are.

Still, hats off to you to Yankees Nation, your excessive over-spending for baseball free agents, and the legions of drunken, baseball illiterate people who show up to your games to cheer you on, bothers me much less today!

Paul M. Banks is CEO of The Sports Bank.net, an official Google News site that generates millions of unique visitors. He’s also a regular contributor to Chicago Now, Walter Football.com, Yardbarker, and Fox Sports

He’s appeared on live radio all across the world from Houston to New Zealand. The President of the United States follows him on Twitter (@Paul_M_BanksTSB) You should too

You may also like -