Muammar Gaddafi is dead?

Libyan rebels seize most of capital
Clashes continue near Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli, but the leader's whereabouts remain unknown.

Muammar Gaddafi was a hunted man on Monday as loyal remnants of his forces made a last-ditch stand in the capital and world leaders embraced the fractious Libyan rebels as new masters of the oil-rich North African state.
Nearly 48 hours after a pincer thrust on Tripoli by the irregular rebel armies, launched in tandem with an uprising in the city, Gaddafi's tanks and sharpshooters appeared to hold only small areas, including his Bab al-Aziziya headquarters.
Civilians, who mobbed the streets late on Sunday to cheer the end of dictatorship, stayed indoors as gunfire crackled. Gaddafi's prime minister showed up in Tunisia. State television went off the air and rebels said they had seized its transmitters.

I hope they can, as quickly as possible, locate and apprehend the dictator and his sons, but I've no delusions that doing so will insure a new age of peace and prosperity for Libya.

Minutes earlier, a brief message was posted in the largest medical forum in China (with 2 millions members):

Nor do I have any such delusions. We don't even know what (or who) constitutes the leadership of the rebels. That's hardly the point. It's just good to see someone like Ghadaffi get his just desserts.

But also discovered in the compound is a photo album of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. As MSNBC reports, Rice visited Tripoli in 2008. She and Qaddafi ate dinner during a brief time where Qaddafi was being welcomed back into the international community.

And in a 2007 interview with al-Jazeera, according to MSNBC, Qaddafi said of Rice: "I support my darling black African woman. I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders ... Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. ... I love her very much. I admire her and I'm proud of her because she's a black woman of African origin."

Muammar Gaddafi is dead?