'In the end, just a guy in a bad Hawaiian shirt without a clue'

Alexis Okeowo on Twitter sums up the end of the four-month stand-off by Cote d'Ivoire's former Life President, Laurent Gbagbo.

The New York Times has the details and the photograph above on the arrest of Gbagbo. He was found "… sweating [and] plaintive … he appeared in a white tank-top undershirt, wiping dry his face and underarms with a towel as men dressed in military camouflage looked on, smiling."

Here's also some video from Ivorian TV.

There's also this disturbing image of Gbagbo's captured wife Simone with some of her captors:

Separately the paper also has the lowdown on the affection Gbagbo enjoyed among some Republican Congressmen, the demagogue Glen Beck and American evangelicals.

To them he is a Christian; not Muslim like Obama. The Times quotes Pat Robertson last week: "…[I]t's one more Muslim nation that's going to be building up that ring of Sharia law around the Middle East."

* BTW, we need to watch Alassane Ouattara closely. His forces have been guilty of all kinds of atrocities against civilians dislodging of Gbagbo's regime.