Libyan women walk in front of a billboard showing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi celebrating his
40th anniversary
Posted on 08/29/2009 5:40:09 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Libya is planning a celebrations on the scale of the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power.
Libyan women walk in front of a billboard showing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi celebrating his
40th anniversary
If anything, the superlatives will be even greater as Beijing 2008 did not boast the world's largest tent, 1,000 camels, Toureg nomads or 40 hot air balloons.
Performers are being flown in from all over the planet, from dancers and fireworks specialists to brass band from Wales.
The giant tent, and the stage within it, longer than a football pitch, are being built by a British special events company, Atlantic Enterprise.
The director is a Frenchman and the party is being put together by a public relations company run by the British government's one-time favourite ad-man.
"Everything is bespoke for this event," said Atlantic's managing director, Shane McCarthy. "Nothing like this has ever been done before."
Organisers are expecting 300,000 Libyans to watch the show being put on next Tuesday to mark the anniversary live, with more on television.
After congregating in Libya's capital Tripoli, newly whitewashed and decorated with Gaddafi posters, hundreds of VIP guests will enjoy an evening buffet.
They will then be escorted into a smaller version of the open Bedouin tent, 130 yards by 45 yards, by 27 yards tall, in which the pageant will take place. Once they are joined by Col Gaddafi himself, the show will begin.
The scale will be vast. Four hundred performers, helped by a crew of 1,100, will lay on a pageant of Libya's history: as centre of Phoenician trade, of Roman civilisation and Arab learning.
Mr McCarthy said the firm was using 15 Antonov aircraft to fly in
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He sure has a lot of time in grade.....shouldn’t he be a General by now?
“Performers are being flown in from all over the planet...”
I wonder if “Barry and the Telepromptors” will be one of the entertainers. ?
.. really though, when I read about this celebration, I was visualizing Barry drooling for ‘his turn’ to bastardize 9-11 to celebrate *his coup*.
That poster sure looks a lot like Obama with his nose in the air. Are they imitating each other?
Notice Che Guevara and Nassir on the billboard too
It’s like who cares?
I heard one of the guests will be Gaddafi Duck.
40 hot-air balloons is nothing. Over 500 typically show up at Albuquerque every year in October. It’s been as high as 800.
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