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Gaddafi: Europe will 'turn black' unless EU pays Libya £4bn a year
Nice little bit of blackmail. Let's see how the Euroweenies respond
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.

Speaking at a ceremony in Rome while standing next to Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, Col Gaddafi, 67, said that unless his request for money was met, Europe would otherwise become "another Africa" as a result of the "advance of millions of immigrants".

"Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European and even black as there are millions who want to come in," he said.

"We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the barbarian invasions".
There's a nice rhetorical touch. Rome fell to barbarians in part because it no longer wanted to defend itself. It hired mercenaries and forced slaves to do all the heavy work. When Aleric sacked Rome in 410 AD the slaves in the region helped him.

Europe doesn't have slaves today, but it does have an underclass (Euro-Muslims) who would help the sackers. It has America, not mercenaries, but one shouldn't count on Obama's America for much.
Tens of thousands of desperate African refugees and economic migrants have reached Italian soil by boat from the North African coast, although the influx has been stemmed by the Libyan navy in the last year under an accord with the Berlusconi government.

An MP from the opposition Italy of Values party, Silvana Mura, accused the Libyan leader of holding Europe to ransom, demanding mafia-style protection money in return for a promise to safeguard the continent from unchecked immigration.
"Nice little country you got here. Sure would be a shame if anything happened to it."
Another opposition MP, Luigi de Magistris, accused the Libyan regime of keeping tens of thousands of African migrants in "concentration camps" in the desert.

Posted by: tipper 2010-08-31
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=304573