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Africa North
Qadaffy to UN: Abolish Switzerland
2009-09-04
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

#11  "Should be Comedy House Central when Libya takes over the General Assembly presidency on September 15."

All we need now is North Korea heading the Human Rights Commission and Cuba the financial department and we are set.

Maybe we can spare a Commission of Religious Tolerance, chaired by Iran?
Posted by: European Conservative   2009-09-04 21:40  

#10  Go for it, Qadaffy Duck and Useless Nitwits - Just ignore the fact that every Swiss male has a gun, and the will/ability to use it.

And, as RJ says, where else would the world's kleptocrats keep all their boodle?

All turban, no camels....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-09-04 21:28  

#9  What would we call the cheese around the holes?

Who would defend the Pope?

Where would one get a decent knife?

Julie Andrews would have nowhere to run.
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5***   2009-09-04 20:54  

#8  The gift that keeps on giving:
Gaddafi rockets into car design
Posted by: tipper   2009-09-04 17:34  

#7  Should be Comedy House Central when Libya takes over the General Assembly presidency on September 15.
Posted by: tipper   2009-09-04 16:52  

#6  Once a nut case, always a nut case. Thank God we can count on Khadafy to remain stabley unstable.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-09-04 15:45  

#5  I think Gadaffy has made a step too far, thousands of tin pot dictators have loot stashed in Swiss Vaults and are now His enemies.

Stomped on the wromg toes, he has.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-09-04 12:17  

#4  Switzerland may respond by demanding that Gadaffi, Ghadafi, Khadaffi gives up 9 of his 10 different spellings.
Posted by: European Conservative   2009-09-04 11:54  

#3  Some would ask that the Scottish judge be beaten with a coat hanger too.
Posted by: HammerHead   2009-09-04 09:46  

#2  This IS Bizarro Wolrd stuff, but, at the same time, it's a great insight into both the mindset of K-Daffy and assorted tinpot third world dictators (who REALLY are feeling their oats when it comes to dealing with whitey, aren't they???), and of the role the UN is playing into that mindset (IE it's a tribune, soapbox and enabler, first phagocyted by the commies, and now, by third-wolrdism - not very PC to say, but it's what happens when you allows people and Nations or supposed Nations that should NOT deserve it to be treated as your equal and think that they are "as you" and will playn the game by the rules, instead of subverting it and dragging the field down to their level).
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-09-04 03:16  

#1  Is Switzerland even a member of the UN?

Since 2002
Posted by: phil_b   2009-09-04 00:59  

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