Yesterday, the Sunday Times dropped an explosive report detailing how Zuma stashed $30m (about R422m) in cash in an underground bunker at Nkandla.
I imagine the job description for presidential bodyguard includes something about putting your body in the line of fire. No surprises when things like this happen then.
Soooooo Gaddafi decided to hide his enormous wealth in South Africa, if the story is to be believed. I reckon we all get out out our spades and wheelbarrows and start digging…
A crap film is the cause of two attacks on American embassies in Libya and Eygpt. Followers of an ultra-traditionalist approach to Islam are very pissed about a video called the “The Innocence of Muslims” that not only portrays the prophet Mohammed, but ridicules him as a homosexual, an advocate of paedophilia, and shows him having sex.
Reuters has just reported that the US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on Tuesday in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
The West have unintentionally cleared the path for al-Qaeda to take control over 300 000 square miles of African terrain. “Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” (AQIM) and its allies have taken over an area of the Sahara more than three times the size of Britain, complete with airports, military bases, arms dumps and training camps.
It is very, very dangerous being ambassadorial these days. Probably moreso if you were ever one of Muammar Gaddafi’s diplomats. Libya’s former ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, died during detention by armed militia in Tripoli – and judging from the autopsy, it was not a merciful killing.
Hey dictators. Got a national reputation problem on your hands? You could invest in some good public relations, couldn’t you? Specifically, give Racepoint PR a call – they’re the agency that did such a good job of brushing up Colonel Gadhafi’s image and, more recently, shifting attention away from Rwanda’s genocide problem.
This footage captured by cellphone comes from AlJazeera TV and shows Gaddafi lying dead with much celebration around him, as he is dragged around the streets. Please do not click to read further (and view the video) if you are not prepared to see the video of the evil dictator with a bullet hole to […]
Check out this chap playing a guitar while a fierce gun battle goes down around him! At first I thought I was watching a scene from a remake of El Mariachi – set entirely in Libya. But this extraordinary image was taken during the recent battle for Sirte, the last stronghold of Gaddafi’s troops. It was captured by photographer, Aris Messinis for Getty Images.
A nanny, who worked for one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, has been found abandoned in a room at one of the family’s luxury seaside villas in western Tripoli. She is covered in weeping scabs after boiling water was poured over her head by one of Gaddafi’s daughter-in-laws. Why? The nanny refused to beat the woman’s daughter.
Yes, it seems as if the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and will probably take the secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 with him soon. CNN found al-Megrahi in his palatial Tripoli villa on Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip, under the care of his family.
Yesterday, while the rebels overran Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, they also got their first taste of how their defunct dictatorial leader lived. While some chose to cruise around in the colonel’s preferred mode of transport: the golf cart, others had a good look-and-loot of Gaddafi’s personal residence’s. There’s a merry-go-round and even glass casings around his deceased daughter’s stuff.
Muammar Gaddafi’s government are in contact across Europe with members of the Libyan rebel army. Earlier this week the head of the World Chess Federation, a man with direct Kremlin links, took Gaddafi on in a ‘diplomatic’ chess game. Maybe his persuasion has helped.
As rebel forces march further west toward the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and Germany declares its support for the rebels, Muammar Gaddafi took on Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess Federation in a game of chess on Sunday. What do they have in common? They’ve both been in powerful leadership positions for a long time.
A European government official has claimed that Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is travelling between Tripoli’s hospitals at night to elude bombing raids by NATO jets. The official has said that he is doing this because he knows that the hospitals are something that the air raids will not target.
The family of slain photographer Anton Hammerl have published the letter that they have written to President Jacob Zuma ahead of his trip to Libya for “discussions” with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi next week. It’s hoped that this will put further pressure on Zuma to ensure the secure return of Hammerl’s remains to South Africa.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Saif Gaddafi, is reported to have been killed yesterday. According to the BBC, “A Nato air strike in Tripoli has killed the son of Col Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan government spokesman has said.” Follow the link for more.