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Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte
syngularyx writes with a snippet from Reuters' report that "Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said. His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen." An anonymous reader links to the news as reported by Al Jazeera (citing confirmation from the military spokesman of the National Transition Council). Time reports that many Libyans were celebrating even preliminary reports of Gaddafi's death.
Firearms expert Julian Hatcher studied falling bullets and found that .30 caliber rounds reach terminal velocities of 300 feet per second (90 m/s) and larger .50 caliber bullets have a terminal velocity of 500 feet per second (150 m/s).[8] A bullet traveling at only 150 feet per second (46 m/s) to 170 feet per second (52 m/s) can penetrate human skin,[9] and at 200 feet per second (60 m/s) it can penetrate the skull.[10] A bullet that does not penetrate the skull may still result in an intracranial injury.[11]
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got three different ~.30 caliber rifles here... amusingly none are a .30 carbine. but all should be able to be used to accidentally kill someone standing next to you with indirect fire.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
A good part of it is because the West helped in the creation of the state of Israel, just 30 short years after the Palestinians won their right to statehood for their part in dismantling the Ottoman Empire. Add onto this the West's continued meddling in their governments' affairs, assassinating their democratically elected leaders and installing better puppets, and you have a pretty clear picture of what has caused the radicalization of Islamic beliefs.
If it worked the other way around, with Iran assassinating US presidents in order to install Iran friendly dictators; if Egypt annexed large swaths of the East Cost of the USA to give back to the Native Americans; if the Middle East had their unified Islamic Government the way the EU and US are unified, and then randomly put boots on the ground and military bases throughout America . . . then you might be a radicalized Christian (or whatever your faith is).
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. --Aldous Huxley