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2005-08-18 Africa: North

Gaddafiâs family member in Berlin hospital: reports

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Posted by Steve 2005-08-18 15:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hopefully Gaddafi pays him a visit in the hospital.

And brings the fembots.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2005-08-18 16:12|| 2005-08-18 16:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Wikipedia Sez:
Qaddafi has eight children, seven of them sons. His oldest son, Muhammad Qaddafi, is by a wife now in disfavor, but runs the Libyan Olympic Committee.
The next eldest Al-Saadi Qaddafi (32), runs the Libyan Football Federation, plays for Italian Serie A team Perugia, and produces films.
He's in Australia right now, if he's 32 and the second oldest, that makes Muhammad Qaddafi the leading candidate
The third eldest, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, a painter, runs a charity which has been involved in negotiating freedom for hostages taken by Islamic militants, especially in the Philippines. Humm, according to al-Jiz Saif al-Islam is al-Qaddafi's second eldest son and is said to be his intended heir and is reportedly been studying in the UK for the past two years. Confusing, ain't it?
His only daughter is Ayesha Qaddafi, a lawyer who has joined the defense team of Saddam Hussein. All have been speculated to be possible successors.
Three more sons, Al Moatassim, Hannbil, and Khamees, are less prominent. (In September 2004, Hannbil was involved in a police chase in Paris.) Hannbil likes to drive fast, huh?

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-18 16:37|| 2005-08-18 16:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd do a one-for-one Kennedy-hadghaffi swap anytime. The berber boyz don't seem lazy.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-18 16:44|| 2005-08-18 16:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Found a new blog today: ...Or does it explode?

Here's his(?) post on Qadaffi's Qidz:

There's son Mutassim (a.k.a Hannibal, as in Lecter), with his penchant for speeding through Paris, trashing European hotel rooms, attacking police in Rome, crashing his yacht in Sardinia -- and getting away with it.

**UPDATE: Mutassim recently received a suspended sentence in France for beating up his girlfriend**

Then there's son Saadi, the Libyan answer to Uday Hussein. Saadi evidently has delusions of soccer greatness, insisting on playing for the Libyan national team and firing the team's coach. He managed to join the European team Perugia only to be kicked off for illegal doping. When the crowd at a Libyan soccer match started chanting against him, he ordered his bodyguards to fire into the stands - killing several people.

Daughter Aisha, known as the Claudia Schiffer of North Africa, has made headlines for joining Saddam Hussein's legal defense team (she has a law degree from Libya's Al-Fatih University).

Son Sayf (Arabic for "sword") is a 32-year-old bachelor and oft-mentioned heir to the Colonel's... well, throne. He keeps tigers in his apartment in Vienna and hangs out with Jorge Haider.

First-born Muhammed and his brother Mualassim have fallen out of favor with the Colonel.

It's all a riot until you imagine growing up in Libya with this dysfunctional family dominating the country... and terrorizing the national soccer team. And you have no way to hold them accountable.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-18 17:15|| 2005-08-18 17:15|| Front Page Top

#5 'Nother update from the same site:

But then there's the Colonel's likely-successor: the debonair son Saif, who speaks French and German and likes to hob-nob with European politicians like Austria's notorious Jorg Haider (plus keep a pet tiger in his apartment). Now, Saif is trying to burst onto the European art scene with a traveling exhibit of original paintings entitled: The Desert is Not Silent ("We speak of new... beginning" is the exhibit's tagline).

So what are the artistic skills of the Middle East's longest-serving dictator's son? Actually, not as terrible as you might think. Browse the complete gallery online.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-18 17:18|| 2005-08-18 17:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Emily -- outstanding website, one we should keep an eye on.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-08-18 17:35|| 2005-08-18 17:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Now - do ANY of those lists of the Colonel's Kids list the daughter who supposedly died during ELDORADO CANYON back in '86?...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-08-18 18:57|| 2005-08-18 18:57|| Front Page Top

#8 But Mike, it was in all the newspapers.

Posted by Matt 2005-08-18 19:07|| 2005-08-18 19:07|| Front Page Top

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