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 “America’s 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.
Qaddafi’s 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.
Qaddafi’s 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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“Welcome to Libya, Mr. Bond.”
Snazzy, I like it, there’s something about a woman in uniform....
I I I’ll have a blue camo christmas with out you...
Interesting what the word "provocatively" means to some parts of the world.
Momar looks like he’s been internet shopping at Axis Surplus Supply again.
Nice ladies, but horrible "uniforms". This looks like some shoddy, third class carvnival costume. Horrible. Lybia drops the ball.
Well the guy has style that’s for sure
He doesn’t pass as an Arab for me. A “good” Arab leader, worth his salt, needs a moustache at least. The “religious” ones have beard, the “seculars” at least a tiny moustache.
Mubarak gets an exception, but only because he usually dresses in Western suits anyway.
Ghaddafi looks like a mutt. Also never, ever, wear uniforms and visor caps with long hair... damn, he is sooo unsnazzy.
Yeah, sure they are...
Faces uncovered *IS* provocative to that part of the world. But of course *WE* are right to throw conniption fits about bared human breasts in public or on TV!
The guy looks like an arab Ron Jeremy......
It’s Austin Powers and the “Fem-Bots”, lol.
This year a well guarded Gaddafi traveled to Accra, Ghana for a meeting of the African Union where continental citizenship and continental government were on the agenda.
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