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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 12:10 PM
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Libya 'halts Swiss oil shipments'
This is from the BBC News. Interesting.

Libya's state shipping company says it has halted oil shipments to Switzerland in protest at the brief arrest of leader Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7523537.stm
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 12:43 PM
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1. Interesting...
Edited on Thu Jul-24-08 12:51 PM by Boojatta
It is not Hannibal Gaddafi's first brush with the law. In 2005 he was convicted by a court in France of assaulting his girlfriend.

(Final sentence in the news article)

Why is he spending time in Switzerland or France? Obviously there's some kind of incompatibility between Hannibal Gaddafi and the law enforcement agencies of Switzerland and France. If I'm not mistaken, Hannibal Gaddafi's father wants Jews who used to have Libyan citizenship to return to Libya, so why doesn't Hannibal Gaddafi set an example by spending his time in Libya rather than in Switzerland or France?
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 01:31 PM
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2. I don't know
He sounds like a spoiled brat to me, really, he should have better manners than that. But the resulting posturing is nerve wracking.
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