That’s how Alexis Okeowo (on Twitter) sums up the end of the four-month stand-off against democracy 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 wife Simone with some of their captors:

Which brings up the well-documented abuses by Alassane Ouattara’s forces. They have been guilty of all kinds of atrocities against civilians in their efforts to free Cote d’Ivoire of Gbagbo’s regime.

* Separately The New York Times also has the lowdown on the affection Gbagbo enjoyed among some Republican Congressmen, the demagogue Glen Beck and American evangelicals.

To the American Right Gbagbo is a Christian; not Muslim like Obama or Ouattara. The Times quotes TV evangelist 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.”