Posted on 12/22/2007 8:44:52 AM PST by RDTF
After receiving his first invite to a Western country in 34 years, Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi was clearly out to make a good first impression.
He arrived with a 400-person entourage for a five-day official visit to Paris last week on no fewer than five planes and a fleet of armor-plated limos. Despite being booked into the luxurious, five-star Hotel de Marigny, he preferred to pitch his own heated Bedouin style tent that he brought with him in the gardens. As a final touch, he also brought a Saharan camel to greet visitors in desert tradition. This week, he was in Madrid as a guest of the Spanish government.
But much like a popular music icon, no entourage is complete without the right women. For Qaddafi, that means a menacing group of 30 female body guards. Easily mistaken as hopefuls for Americas Next Model, his unit of gorgeous, gun-toting women are actually trained killers. The bodyguards, who are also reputedly virgins, made their Parisian debut in stylish blue camouflage fatigues.
Qaddafis elite female corps mark him as controversial an Islamic figure as he is in the West because these women directly challenge the role of women in Islamic society.
Weapons training, the right to carry weapons, the right to use weapons and entrusting women with the physical protection of the head of state are all pretty revolutionary moves for an Islamic country.
Qaddafis female bodyguards provocatively dress in Western fatigues, heavy black boots and shades instead of the veil and head-to-toe black chador that is traditional dress for Muslim women.
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Not wanting you to reveal any secrets here, but do you by any chance wear a Batman suit when she's in her military garb?
What is so unusual about Gene Simmons traveling with a bunch of women?
Nice burlap sack he’s wearing.
Qaddafi looks like a drunken Andre the Giant in that photo.
Time and events have passed him by, and it shows.
Khadafi's starting to look like John Oates.
He looks a lot like Keith Richards. Dresses like him too.
I am at attention now! He he
Looks like the Shriners finally recruited some hot chicks.
I guess there’s not much hope for a commando raid that would arrest him for trial in his involvement in the downing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie now is there?
It’s simply disgusting that he’s being given the royal treatment by our so-called “friends”.
ha!
This is a shoddy third class carnival.
Do you doubt he'd get similar treatment here?
“It’s good to be king.”
Nah, he looks almost identical to the Jeff Goldblum boss in the "Independence Day" Movie. The guy with the raspy voice calling his momma and the shrink all the time!
He looks like he has had a tough few years.
30 female bodyguards; 960 bad teeth
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