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Egypt Denies Reports Al Qathafi Relatives Have Entered Country
 [Tripoli Post] Egypt has denied reports "No, no! Certainly not!" that members of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years... have crossed into the country from Algeria. "It's... ummm... somebody else." The Egyptian security has been reported saying there is no truth in what the Algerian daily newspaper el-Khabar reported, that the same Al Qadaffy relatives who decamped to Algeria have entered Egypt. Earlier, the Algerian newspaper, which is close to the government, reported that on Saturday evening eight of members of Al Qadaffy's family, possibly including his daughter Ayesha who had entered Algeria on August 29 boarded an Egypt Air plane to Algiers' Houari Boumediene Airport. The report came a day after the Algerian government criticised the release of an audio recording by Ayesha on the Syrian based Arrai TV channel. Algeria's foreign minister, Mourad Medelci, had denounced as "unacceptable" Ayesha's message criticising Libya's National Transitional Council. Medelci, who was attending the U.N. General Assembly in New York, at the time pledged to "take measures" against Al Qadaffy's relatives. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... neither Algerian nor Egyptian officials have confirmed the reports, Al Arabiya said.. In her first public remarks since the fall of Tripoli a month ago, on Saturday Ayesha accused Libya's new leaders of being traitors, noting that some of them were members of her father's regime before defecting in the civil war. "Those who have betrayed the pledge they offered (to Qadaffy), how will they not betray you?" she said in a warning to Libyans. When the Al Qadaffy's decamped to Algeria, the Algerian authorities said they gave them asylum n humanitarian grounds. A day after their entry, the Algerian health ministry reported that as she was fleeing across the border Ayesha had given birth to a baby girl. Posted by: Fred 2011-09-28 |
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