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Qadaffy to UN: Abolish Switzerland
Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy has a beef with Switzerland and plans to ask the United Nations to abolish the tiny Alpine home of milk chocolate, cuckoo clocks and yodeling. According to Swiss minister Christa Markwalder, Khadafy will demand that Switzerland be wiped off the map when he comes to New York Sept. 23. He apparently wants the country to be dismembered and the land parceled out among neighbouring France, Germany and Italy.
We get the gold, Israel gets the vaults with the 1940s treasures ...
Him and what army? Is Switzerland even a member of the UN?
The Libya-Swiss kerfuffle began a year ago, when Khadafy's youngest son, Hannibal Khadafy, and his pregnant wife were arrested in a Geneva luxury hotel for beating two servants with a belt and a coat-hanger. Hannibal Khadafy had previously been busted in both France and Italy for beating a woman and fighting a cop, and once for driving drunk down Paris' Champs Elysee at 90 mph - the wrong way.

Libya retaliated with fury, recalling some diplomats, suspending visas for Swiss citizens, withdrawing funds from Swiss banks, shuttering the Tripoli office of Nestle and threatening to cut off oil deliveries to Switzerland. Two Swiss businessmen were barred from leaving the country until Libya received an apology for Hannibal's arrest.

Two weeks ago, Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz sought to win their release after a year by traveling to Triploi to apologize for the arrest. Libya promised to let the hostages go by Sept. 1 - but reneged. Now Merz is fending off calls for his resignation.
Perhaps Switzerland ought to consider changing oil suppliers. I hear Nigeria and Iraq should both soon have more to sell.

Posted by: Steve White 2009-09-04
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