A thief, a killer, a madman … and doomed

The father of a UN Goodwill Ambassador attempts to spread the wealth:

COLONEL Gaddafi secretly deposited 3 billion pounds ($4.8bn) with one of London’s Mayfair private wealth managers last week as he sought to protect his family’s fortunes…

Italy fears the rise of an ‘Islamic caliphate”

But Quaddafi will not be the caliph in it…..

Italy is also warning its 350,000 citizens working in Libya to evacuate to avoid a “civil war.” French president Nicolas Sarkozy, meanwhile, is calling for Europe to adopt sanctions, freeze assets, and institute travel bans against Libya.  (Source)

Just like Michael Jackson: A slideshow of Muammar Gaddafi’s fashion through the ages.

Links from the ROP:

Gaddafi: ‘Those Who Don’t Love Me Do Not Deserve to Live’…

“Look Europe. Look America, this is the Libyan people, this is the result of the revolution. The revolution has revived Omar Al Mukhtar, we will fight for the land of Libya,” Gaddafi continued. “We defeated Italian invaders and in the same way we will defeat any foreign attempt against us. We will fight, we will fight to regain every piece of Libyan land. We will defeat them as we defeated Italian colonialism”.

Libyan Military Blasts Sit-In at Mosque, Killing 17 Protestors…

But Gaddafi is not the only Arab leader shooting demonstrators:

In Yemen, 19 people have died in almost daily clashes between police and anti-regime protesters since February 16, according to an AFP tally based on reports by medics and witnesses.

Italy Fears ‘Catastrophic’ Wave of 1.5 Million Illegals…

And remember – just four years ago, Libya was elected to the UN Security Council.

Jewish group slams ‘solidarity’ with Gadhafi

“Solidarity with a dictator who has been in power for more than four decades and is massacring his own people is shameful and criminal,”

BS vs Mohammedanism: Euromed kicks off in Amman

According to the Enpi website (www.enpi-info.eu), this programme aims at stimulating and encouraging mutual comprehension among youth in the Euro-Mediterranean region, fighting stereotypes and prejudices and enhancing the sense of solidarity among youth by promoting active citizenship. Among the thematic priorities there is the fight against racism and xenophobia and the promotion of gender equality.(Source)

Hostage taking vs civilization. Has anything changed since the Barbary pirates 200 years ago?

The Secret Battle of Lazzarotto

An Insider’s Look at the Libyan-Swiss Hostage Crisis

It was one of the strangest diplomatic stand-offs in recent memory: After Swiss police arrested the son of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya abducted two Swiss businessmen. According to US diplomatic cables, the challenge proved almost too great for Switzerland.

By Mathieu von Rohr/Spiegel

The last official representative of Switzerland in Libya seems so pitiable as he unburdens himself to his American counterparts on Sept. 3, 2009.

Stefano Lazzarotto, chargé d’affaires of the Swiss Embassy, gave off the outward appearance of being happy “but his physical appearance — gaunt and fatigued — betrayed the internal stress that the Swiss-Libyan conflict has forced on him,” according to a report sent to Washington from the US Embassy in Tripoli.

The report goes on to quote Lazzarotto as saying: “I even receive calls in the middle of the night from Bern. They do not understand the kind of pressure I am under. I have lost seven kilos in the past 10 days.”

By that time, the crisis that Lazzarotto had been sent to Libya to solve had already been going on for 14 months. It was one of the most complicated challenges Swiss diplomats have ever faced. As US diplomatic reports now show, it proved to be too much.

The drama began on July 15, 2008. On that day, police in Geneva arrested Hannibal al-Gadhafi, son of Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, in his suite at the Hotel President Wilson after two servants complained of being physically mistreated, an accusation which Gadhafi Jr. denied. The police detained Hannibal for two days before releasing him on bail of 500,000 Swiss francs (€372,000, $505,000) and allowing him and his wife to leave the country.

Looking for Revenge

Libya’s ruling family wanted revenge. It immediately severed all trade relations with Switzerland, and it shut down the offices of Swiss companies in Libya. But, in the end, the real crisis revolved around the fate of two Swiss businessmen who had been working in Libya, Max Göldi and Rachid Hamdani. On July 19, 2008, the Libyans temporarily detained them and forbade them from leaving the country. For the next two years, the two would remain Gadhafi’s hostages.

Dispatches from the US Embassy in Tripoli provide an inside look into the affair. They show just how helpless Swiss diplomats acted and just how isolated they were from European Union diplomats. They also reveal for the first time how the US secretly supported the Swiss. The US Embassy in Tripoli was proved a place where Swiss diplomats could go to voice their concerns. The Americans lent them a sympathetic ear — and then cabled everything they heard back to Washington.

The conversation that the exhausted Lazzarotto had with his American counterparts on that September day came almost two weeks after a memorable event in the spat between Switzerland and Libya. Hans-Rudolf Merz, Switzerland’s president at the time, had traveled to Libya and apologized on his people’s behalf. But the visit would ultimately prove a humiliation for Switzerland — because, even after the apology, the hostages were not freed.

At the time of the conversation, Lazzarotto wasn’t yet sure of the outcome of Merz’s visit. He had only just assumed his post in July and had started a three-week vacation in August. But his holiday ended after three days when he got a call saying that he had to come back and help Switzerland’s president negotiate an agreement in Libya.

‘A Stressful Week’

Lazzarotto told US diplomats of “a stressful week of middle-of-the-night negotiations at the Corinthia Hotel” and about how he and one of his co-workers from Bern had slept in a car outside the hotel for two nights. He noted that the Swiss had agreed to almost all of the Libyans’ demands.

Merz and Libyan Prime Minister Bagdadi Mahmudi had discussed the fate of the two Swiss businessmen, Lazzarotto reported. Libya had pledged to allow the two to leave the country before September 1, the ambassador said. It was seen as a major victory — but by the time of the Sept. 3 conversation with the US, they were still being held.

Lazzarotto was anxious. He said he was “constantly” telephoning his Libyan contacts, but he also seemed to be somewhat sympathetic to the Libyan position. “I am half Italian,” Lazzarotto noted, according to the US dispatch,”and I understand time differently than my Swiss-German colleagues in Bern.”

Lazzarotto spoke of the tense atmosphere within the Swiss Embassy. The two hostages were initially elated that they might soon be heading home, but were now becoming increasingly depressed. The two were living in apartments above the embassy — Lazzarotto said that he and a colleague had moved in as well to help boost their morale. Since none of them could sleep at night, they played ping pong to kill time. Afraid that he might miss a crucial phone call, Lazzarotto reported that he hadn’t left the embassy since August 31.

‘Typically Swiss Thinking’

American diplomats posted in Tripoli had been closely monitoring the whole ordeal since it began in July 2008 with Hannibal’s arrest. But they didn’t get involved themselves until the fall of 2009. Primarily, they observed that Libya was allowing their rage to interfere with their economic interests. They were kept up to date on the affair by Daniel von Muralt, Switzerland’s ambassador to Libya at the time.

As the situation progressed, Muralt became increasingly critical of Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey. On Jan. 27, 2009, Muralt told US Ambassador Gene Cretz that Bern didn’t understand the cultural influences behind the Libyan point of view. “We started off much too soft and are probably too soft now,” he said, adding that Switzerland had practically no leverage and that his boss, Calmy-Rey, displays “typically Swiss thinking.” A few weeks later, Muralt went into early retirement and Lazzarotto took over in July 2009.

It was then, however, after the fruitless trip by President Merz, that the darkest chapter of the affair began. The Libyans continued to refuse to grant the two Swiss captives permission to leave the country. Instead, on Sept. 18, 2009, they lured them into a trap and abducted them in broad daylight.

That was when the US Embassy became significantly more involved in the ordeal. On Sept. 22, Lazzarotto once again met with an American diplomat, and was amazed that his US counterpart already knew about the abduction. Bern had instructed him to keep the matter secret.

Searching in Vain for Support from Europe

Lazzarotto was unaware that the Swiss had already officially asked the US to intervene. And the American ambassador was astonished. His conversation with Lazzarotto, he cabled to Washington, “revealed a disconnect between Bern and its embassy in Tripoli. While the Swiss government seems to be building alliances at the deputy foreign minister level to advocate on its behalf, it is rendering the Swiss Embassy weak and vulnerable by keeping the chargé d’affaires uninformed.”

The Americans asked whether there was any truth to the rumor that the Libyans kidnapped the hostages out of fear that the Swiss might take military action. Lazzarotto said the rumor was “laughable” — but chances are he didn’t know himself. Only later did it emerge that the Swiss government actually had considered a military raid to free the hostages.

It was then that the first signs of friction between the Swiss and EU countries began to emerge. The Portuguese ambassador, one of the most vehement critics of the Swiss, complained that they have provoked the Libyans by recently exercising their veto right to prevent Moammar Gadhafi from obtaining a Schengen visa. Gadhafi had only wanted the visa, the ambassador added, because he wanted to stop off in Portugal on the way to the UN General Assembly in New York.

Not Impressed

The Swiss had already discovered back in mid-2009 that their Schengen veto could be an effective weapon against Libya. With it, they could prevent Libyan officials from entering Europe. The EU, however, was not impressed.

The Swiss could, however, rely on the US for support. On Oct. 10, 2009, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a brief stop in Zürich. The US ambassador in Bern informed her in advance that the Swiss had requested US assistance in the matter of the two abducted Swiss citizens. “I strongly believe,” he wrote, “it is in our interest to do what we can, given Switzerland’s many efforts to assist US citizens in Iran.”

When Michael Ambühl, a high-ranking Swiss diplomat, visited Tripoli on October 19, he notified US Ambassador Cretz that Switzerland planned to assume a “more aggressive” approach. He said Switzerland was planning to expand the circle of Libyans denied Schengen visas. Ambühl told Cretz, however, that he “despaired of getting any coordinated help from other European nations.”

On November 9, the hostages were unexpectedly dropped off in front of the embassy. The next day, Lazzarotto thanked the US ambassador and told him what the two had said about their captivity. They were taken, they thought, to Suraj, a suburb of Tripoli, where they were kept in solitary confinement for two months. They weren’t allowed to make any telephone calls, but they were given plenty of food as well as iPods full of Libyan music.

Soon after they were freed, however, the Libyans indicated they wanted to put Hamdani and Göldi on trial for visa and tax violations. No one expected the trial to be a fair one.

‘Under the Cover of Darkness’

Lazzarotto asked ambassadors from the United States and a number of EU countries to sit in on the trial so the Libyans didn’t think that they could act “under the cover of darkness.” But Ambassador Cretz turned him down, arguing that any American intervention had to remain discrete.

In a dispatch, Cretz noted that other ambassadors also showed little interest — and that anger toward the Swiss was growing among the Europeans. Italy’s deputy ambassador, for example, criticized Bern for using its Schengen veto for unintended “political purposes.” Cretz cabled to Washington that “the Swiss have alienated the very European governments they are now trying to recruit for support.”

On November 30, a Libyan immigration court sentenced the two Swiss men in abstentia to 16-month prison sentences. The pair had resumed living in the Swiss Embassy and, fearing that he might soon be expelled from the country, Lazzarotto asked the Americans if they could provide them with food if the need arose. The Americans, though, said they didn’t want to be publicly connected to the matter.

On February 7, the situation looked to be relaxing. A Libyan court commuted Hamdami’s sentence and ordered his release. Ambassador Cretz wrote that “Swiss hardball tactics … appear to be paying dividends.” Four days after being cleared of charges, Hamdani received his passport back, and Göldi’s prison sentence was reduced from 16 months to four. Switzerland hoped he too would be set free.

But four days later, the situation re-escalated. Libya suddenly decided not to allow any Schengen citizens to enter the country. Chaos immediately broke out at Tripoli’s airport. Dozens of Europeans were refused entry and forced to return home.

Risk of a ‘High-Profile Crisis’

Once again, a “dejected” Lazzarotto showed up at the US Embassy looking for solace. He told the Americans that Libya obviously wanted something more from Switzerland, but he didn’t know what. He wondered if the only solution left was “to cut diplomatic relations.” If the situation didn’t get resolved soon, Ambassador Cretz wrote in a dispatch, there was a risk of a “high-profile crisis” that could affect foreign companies. A day later, he cabled that Germany was the only EU country still backing Switzerland in the dispute.

It is at this point that the diplomatic record breaks off, closing off the curtain to this behind-the-scenes view of the crisis as seen by diplomatic eyes.

On February 22, Libya threatened to raid the Swiss Embassy in order to arrest Max Göldi. In a show of solidarity, ambassadors from several EU countries gathered at the embassy. At the end of the day, Göldi surrendered and was carted off to jail, while Hamdani was permitted to leave the country.

Three days later, Gadhafi delivered a speech in which he called for “holy war” against Switzerland. On March 24, Switzerland succumbed to EU pressure by lifting its veto blocking members of Libya’s regime from entering the Schengen zone. On June 12, 2010, Swiss Foreign Minister Calmy-Rey traveled to Libya, where she signed an agreement negotiated by a number of countries, including Germany. After a round of haggling in Gadhafi’s tent, Max Göldi was allowed to board a plane and fly home to Switzerland.

Calmy-Rey was proud of her accomplishment, saying: “I put my best diplomats on the case.”

Since early November, Stefano Lazzarotto has been serving as Switzerland’s ambassador to Macedonia. Things are much quieter th

They’re good, these guys. They blow us up and sue us for compensation.  I curse the dumb swine who play along with this infamy. We need another Reagan who knows how to deal with Gaddafiscum & co……

Gaddafi demands £4 billion from EU or Europe will turn ‘black’

Muammar Gaddafi has demanded that the European Union give him more than £4 billion to fight illegal immigration or else Europe will turn “black” and be swamped by Muslims.  (The Telegraph)

Again,  those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it: Jefferson and Adams, 200 years ago, in their report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador’s justification for the jihad and the enslavement of American merchant ships in the Mediterranean:

… that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.

Btw, this is not the first time:

Berlusconi bows and kisses Gaddafi’s hand at Arab League Summit

Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5bn euros (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year to stop illegal African immigration and avoid a “black Europe”.  (Jammie)

• WikiLeaks: Muammar Gaddafi ‘close to voluptuous Ukrainian nurse30 Nov 2010
• WikiLeaks: Col Gaddafi ‘fears flying over water’30 Nov 2010
• Tony Blair met Colonel Gaddafi in Libya last month30 Nov 2010
• Lockerbie bomber’s release linked to trade deal, claims Gaddafi’s son30 Nov 2010
• Lockerbie Bomber release: international reaction30 Nov 2010
• Lockerbie bomber released and to return to Libya a free man30 Nov 2010

Col Gaddafi has so far received only £42 million in EU funding to improve treatment of refugees heading for Europe amid human rights fears and a recent refusal by Sweden to sell Libya surveillance planes.

The Libyan leader is critical of the EU for linking trade and aid to free markets and progress on human rights. He told EU officials at the summit that African leaders say they are ready to abandon ten years of trade talks because of European demands.

“Africa has other choices,” he said “Let every country and every group govern itself. Every country is free to serve its own interests. Africa can look to any other international bloc such as Latin America, China, India or Russia.”

A leaked US diplomatic cable giving an assessment of Kenya as a “swamp” of corruption prompted calls for an apology from Nairobi. “It is totally malicious and a total misrepresentation of our country and our leaders. We are surprised and shocked,” said a Kenyan government spokesman.

But Col Gaddafi did not make any reference to the Wikileaks publication of a confidential American communication detailing his need to always travel with his “with his senior Ukrainian nurse” and his love of “flamenco dancing.”

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A 19th-Century Jihad on American Shipping

Anestos Canelides returns with a new essay about the sustained conflict during the earliest days of the American Republic known as the Barbary Wars.

The Barbary Wars: A 19th-Century Jihad on American Shipping
by Anestos Canelides

One year after Great Britain recognized American Independence, a crew on a US merchant ship in the Mediterranean lost their freedom.

The crew and their vessel were captured by Barbary pirates and held for ransom, and this would not be the last attack on U.S. shipping. The capture of the Betsy and the Dauphin would be the beginning of a conflict between the newly independent nation of the United States of America and the Muslim pirates of North Africa. The conflict with the Barbary pirates from the nations of Morocco, Tunis, Tripoli, and Algiers, would last from 1786 to 1815.

It took a combined U.S. fleet to defeat them in the Tripolitan war, from 1801 to 1805. The end result of this first war with the pirates was that the Americans were forced to pay tribute just to make sure they could maintain peace and free trade in the Mediterranean. Tribute and negotiations did not stop the piracy, and in time the truce failed, resulting in a decisive American victory in the Algerine War of 1815.¹

From the time of their first assault on our shipping, the U.S. government did not understand the corsairs’ unprovoked attacks. These attacks on American shipping came as a shock to our founding fathers, but they were part of a greater jihad in the Mediterranean by Muslim pirates. According to Dr. Andrew Bostom, “Jefferson and Adams, in their subsequent report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador’s justification:

… that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

The Muslim pirates had justified their attacks on Christians for centuries as an important element of Jihad. It was referred to as al-jihad-fil-babr or holy war at sea and it was a community of seamen or ta’ifa, it was an integral part of a holy war against the Christian infidel. This form of piracy provided the pirates with their greatest military heroes. ²

There were two concepts involved, Dar al Islam or “house of peace” and Dar al-harb or “house of war”. The Americans were not paying tribute to the Barbary Pirates, so this placed them under the house of war and allowed them to become prey to piracy. Until they signed a treaty and tribute was exacted from them, they would remain victims of jihad. Once they were captured, the ship and its cargo were seized and the men were often sold into slavery.

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No surprises here. Gaddafi follows the script of his holy profit:

“Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them….If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them.” — Muhammad (Sahih Muslim 4294)

Gaddafi invited Europe to accept Islam yesterday. Now he has asked it to pay the jizya. Will he follow through with the third option as well?

“Gaddafi: Europe will ‘turn black’ unless EU pays Libya £4bn a year,” by Nick Squires in the Telegraph, August 31 (thanks to Lazybuddha):

”Islam should become the religion of all of Europe…..”

Col Muammar Gaddafi has warned that Europe runs the risk of turning “black” unless the EU pays Libya at least €5 billion (£4.1 billion) a year to block the arrival of illegal immigrants from Africa.His remarks, made during a controversial three day visit to Italy, were condemned as “unacceptable blackmail” by Italian MPs, who likened the demand to the protection money that mafia gangs demand from businesses….

Jizya is a much more apt analogy.

Why are these Italian MP’s so upset and surprised? Are they ignorant of the Koran and the hadith, haven’t they studied Islamic history?

Gaddafi, Cash & Korans

More on this story. “Italians attack Muammar Gaddafi over Islam comments,” by Nick Squires for the Telegraph

Italians balk at Gadhafi’s sales pitch for Islam

Italians have reacted with indignation after Muammar Gaddafi lectured 200 young actresses and models on the superiority of Islam, a day after saying that Europeans should all become Muslim.

Silvio Berlusconi’s increasingly close relationship with Col Gaddafi is becoming a source of embarrassment for the Italian prime minister, according to opposition MPs and even members of the government.

Rosy Bindi, an MP from the main opposition party, said that the spectacle of hundreds of Italian women being bussed in at Col Gaddafi’s whim was a “humiliating violation” of their dignity.  (More)

Related:

Gaddafi has a bright idea: “Islam should become the religion of all of Europe”

This is a political statement as much as a religious one, since Islam has and always has had a political character. “Europe should convert to Islam: Gaddafi,” from AFP, via JW

The video is from Gaddafi’s first first visit to Italy

The Age: Italian women get cash and Korans

The illustrious Gaddafi is day late and a dollar short: Italy just refused to recognize Islam as an official religion (JW)

Libyan leader (terrorist)  Muammar Gaddafi gave a lesson on Islam and copies of the Koran to a few hundred young Italian women on he arrival in Rome for his fourth visit in a year.

Gaddy & Frattini

It was the second time the Libyan leader – who travels with female bodyguards and fancies himself a self-styled feminist – had staged such an event for Italian women, who were recruited by a modelling agency and paid an undisclosed sum to attend.

Michela, who asked that her last name not be used, told Associated Press Television News that three of the participants converted to Islam on the spot on Sunday.

Related links from the RoP:

• Toddler shot dead in “restive” Thai south
• Germany’s Cologne will Allow Mosque to Dominate Skyline…
• Acid Attack on Woman in Italy…
• Grenade Attack on Catholic Church in the Philippines…
• Turkey Angry Over Iran Calling Armenian Genocide ‘Genocide’…

“It was a really beautiful meeting and went very well,” she said. “He is very easygoing and he gave us a copy of the Koran. Three girls converted themselves to Islam during the ceremony. It was a beautiful event.”

Other participants, though, identifying themselves as Roman Catholics in this overwhelmingly Catholic country, said Gaddafi had urged others to convert and had dismissed Christianity as unimportant.

Between 200 and 500 young women attended, arriving in 10 buses at the Libyan ambassador’s residence just as Gaddafi’s plane was landing at Rome’s Ciampino airport at the start of a two-day visit.

The visit, amid steadily improving business ties between Libya and its former colonial ruler, also marked the second anniversary of a friendship treaty in which Italy agreed to pay Libya $US5 billion as compensation for its 30-year occupation, which ended in 1943.

When Gaddafi was in Italy in November for a UN food summit, he hosted 200 young Italian women who had been recruited and paid 50 euros (about $A70) by the same modelling agency to attend. Then, too, he gave a lecture on Islam and handed out copies of the Koran.

This time around, the women wouldn’t say how much they had been paid, only that they had received a small “reimbursement”.

During his first visit to Italy in June 2009, Gaddafi invited 700 prominent Italian businesswomen and female politicians to listen to a lecture in which he criticised Islam’s treatment of women, but also suggested male relatives should decide if a woman can drive.

“Charity” led by Gadhafi’s son sends humanitarian aid ship to Gaza

“We are heading to Gaza for purely humanitarian reasons, we are not out to provoke anyone or to seek media attention”

Youssef SawwanDirector, Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation

The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has organized a “humanitarian boat” to sail from Greece to the Gaza Strip in effort to break Israel’s naval blockade of the coastal territory, AFP reported on Friday.  Haaretz

• Pressure applied: Gaza aid ship to dock in Egypt after Israel pressure

Saif ul Islam (Sword of Islam) when he doesn’t support the “shadowy insurgents” in Thailand’s deep south and the Abu Sayyaf in the Philppines, also exhibits  something he calls “art,” depicting blood splattered “Palestinians” in Moscow, as we can see here

Gaddafi focuses on such opposing images as peaceful landscapes of the Libyan desert and the Islamic intifada. His art ranges from Arabian horses and tigers to portraits of his father.

In other news:

One Million $$$ Hotel Bill Unpaid

The older brother of Saif ul Islam stayed one month at the Grand Excelsior hotel in Rapallo, (yours truly stayed there on many occasions, an excellent house!) only to run off without paying the bill

Al-Saadi Gaddafi has a long record of smashing hotel rooms, beating up maid servants, disfiguring his wife(s)  etc. which recently caused a diplomatic row between Switzerland and his father, the Libyan dictator. Papa Gaddafi promptly threatened Switzerland with jihad and promised to shift 5 billion dollars in stolen money to Turkey. Nobody has the guts to stand up to these rogues…….

Original article in German from PI: Al-Saadi Gaddafi – “gratis” im Luxushotel

Niemand traut sich, die Gaddafis am Schopf zu packen, wenn sie etwas verbrochen haben. Also, warum für die Hotelrechnung bezahlen? Der 36-jährige Sohn des libyschen Staatschefs (Foto) wohnte im italienischen Badeort Rapallo 2007 einen Monat lang im “Grand Hotel Excelsior” in einer kostspieligen Suite und lud Dutzende Gäste zu sich ein, ohne jemals die Rechnung zu begleichen.

Der Hotelbesitzer hat Al-Saadi Gaddafi deswegen jetzt angezeigt. Libyen ließ über die Botschaft zuvor ausrichten, zu keinen Zahlungen bereit zu sein. Wer muss sich denn ans Recht halten, wenn man ein Gaddafi ist? Viele europäische Staaten inklusive Italien machen mit den Libyern gute Geschäfte. Man wird den Diktator auch diesmal nicht “verärgern” wollen.  [mehr]

An update on: Gaddafi Declares Jihad Against Switzerland

One of the firms forced to close its business in Libya as part of Tripoli’s economic measures against Switzerland, is suing Libya in the Geneva courts.

swissinfo.ch

An exclusive report in the Geneva-based Le Temps newspaper on Wednesday says the small high tech firm, which wants to remain anonymous, has had SFr11.6 million ($10.7 million) of Libyan assets frozen by the courts pending a judgement.

The company, which was given 45 days to wind up its business and leave the country, is suing the Libyan government for about SFr7 million for unpaid bills and breach of contract, the newspaper says.

• Since a vote in November 2009 banning the construction of minarets in Switzerland, the place of Muslims in Swiss society has come under scrutiny.
• “Schadenersatz”: Gaddafi-Geld eingefroren

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, “Sword of Islam”, son of the dictator, exhibits his “art” in Moscow

Normally he promotes the jihad of the “shadowy insurgents” in the south of Thailand or the Abu Sayyaf MILF’s in the Philippines:

MOSCOW June 29 (Reuters Life!) – Artist and reformer Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Libyan leader’s son credited with brokering Tripoli’s stand-off with the West, kept Russian relations warm on Monday when he showed off his paintings.

Three of the paintings highlight conflict with the West.

“Intifada”  features a young fist clenching a stone with splashes of blood. News clippings of an Israeli raid and a Palestinian funeral have been glued over thick oil paint. “War” features the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

Al Reuters

The money is being held in the branches of three foreign banks in Geneva, it adds.

The paper quotes the lawyer of the plaintiffs as saying that the only recourse open to companies who suffered as a result of the actions of the Libyan regime is to get official Libyan assets seized wherever they may be.

All Swiss businesses operating in Libya were forced to close as part of Tripoli’s retaliatory measures following the brief detention of Hannibal Gaddafi, one of the sons of the Libyan leader, and his wife in July 2008 on suspicion of mistreating two of their domestic staff.

Most of them have kept a low profile in the hope of reaching a negotiated agreement with the Libyan authorities.

swissinfo.ch

Switzerland should close its Embassy and cease trade with Libya. It is not a regime one would want to be associated with. Permanent Visa restrictions should be enforced on Libyan Nationals. Swiss have plenty of other choices in terms of diplomatic relations, trade and vacation.

Jihad updates first:

Death toll in S. Russia rises to seven [Video]

STAVROPOL, Russia, May 27 (UPI) — The number dead from a terrorist attack in Stavropol in southern Russia rose to seven, including a child, emergency services personnel said Thursday. Islamization watch has more, click on the link>>

Indian train blast reportedly kills at least 65

Just another ‘train blast’- nothing to do with Islam, as usual…. lets blame “Maoists” instead…!

An apparent bombing attack on a train in east India on Friday has killed at least 65 people and injured 200 or more, according to reports, with the casualties expected to rise. The blast, which caused the passenger train to derail in West Bengal state, was suspected to be the work of Maoist rebels Islamic swine, who are active in the area, according to reports. Some passengers were still believed to be trapped in the wreckage, with police and soldiers using blowtorches and cables to try to reach the remaining survivors, according to the Associated Press. Market Watch

• Thailand: Muslim separatists blamed for bomb attacks

My old school

London School of Economics:

Brawl at LSE as Libyan groups clash over Gaddafi’s son’s speech/Gaddafi’s son ~ Islam Gaddafi gave the LSE a check for £1.5m. But  Libya  doesn’t have an education system to speak of. These guy as buying influence ~ with their people’s money!

Saiful Islam (the sword of Allah) in the bizniz to replace learning with Mohammedan indoctrination….

Demonstrators were protesting at the presence of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, the eldest son of the Libyan leader, who received a PhD from the LSE in 2009.His charitable foundation gave the University’s Global Governance Research Unit a grant of £1.5m in July last year. Read more…/Islamization Watch

• Netherlands and France want code of conduct against internet censorship

Weasel Zippers presents:

Music Jihad: the Islamic war against music

Koran, Balaclava, AK 47, rocket-launchers: replacement strategy for music. (but not only…)

Bandleader Jamal Al-Bayouk said he and his musicians would not risk performing in the southern Gaza Strip any more after extremists threatened to kill them at a wedding party.

They had just finished performing east of Khan Younis when armed militants burst in, set fire to $40,000 worth of instruments and fired shots between the legs of band members.

“One gunman told another: Don’t shoot between the legs. Shoot at the legs!” Bayouk told Reuters.

“Another told me: Prepare for death, you immoral infidel,” the 49-year-old man said, at the Gaza shop where he fixes musical instruments and rents sound systems.

He said several other singers and members of bands had been beaten up by Qaeda style jihadists who disapprove of their music and added that in his opinion there could be further attacks as summer begins and people hold weddings and parties.

The threat comes from Salafi jihadists whose agenda of global holy war against the West is against the nationalist goals of Gaza’s rulers Hamas, an Islamist movement which denies seeking to create a theocracy in the enclave.

While seen in Israel as a dangerously fundamentalist Palestinian enemy force, Hamas is not Islamist enough in the eyes of hardline groups which have stepped up attacks in the Gaza Strip over the past several months, targeting Hamas security men and offices.

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