Posted on 07/07/2013 2:24:02 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
One weekday morning in April 2004, a Libyan girl named Soraya was accorded one of her nation’s highest honors: Col. Moammar Khadafy was visiting her school, and Soraya alone had been chosen to present him with a bouquet.
“You can’t imagine the excitement,” she recalled. “To see Khadafy in person . . . His face had been known to me since I was born.” Soraya was ushered into a makeshift dressing room, where she changed into traditional garb for the Libyan woman: red pants and tunic, small hat.
“My heart was beating a hundred miles a minute,” Soraya said. She was 15 years old, a good Muslim girl who had never had a sip of alcohol, a drag from a cigarette or kissed a boy. “It all happened very fast. I held out the bouquet, then took his free hand in mine and kissed it as I bowed down . . . I felt like I was on a cloud.” Then he patted her head.
In that one moment, Khadafy had indeed marked Soraya as special. And soon she would disappear completely.
What happened to Soraya is recounted in Annick Cojean’s staggering new book, “Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya” (Grove Press). In the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and killing of Khadafy by a rebel militia, Soraya spent days recounting her ordeal to French journalist Cojean.
“I will never forget what it felt like to watch her relive certain crucial moments of her life,” Cojean writes, “the horror of which hasn’t left her.”
The day after Soraya’s presentation to Khadafy, three members of his famed all-female militia came looking for her.
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Barack Obama and Moammar Khadafy meet in 2009
Now that’s the kind of sweet face I’d like to meet in a dark alley...
Living proof that camels can mate with goats.
Just a thought here does Obummer have any world leader that is a Friend? Most Presidents have at leat one that they can call on as not a leader but a confidant in the pace of the world!
Bummer seems to have no one! To have the peace prize on the mantle you would think world leaders would flock to the usurper’s door!
Maybe it is silent and the Saudi King has his back!
Someone remind me why I need to accept ‘lesser evils’ like “Well he’s better than AlQuaida” and other idiocy....
What repulsive bastards
Just a thought here does Obummer have any world leader that is a Friend?
No. But he’s a friend of Satan.
What a monster. And you don’t think the CIA doesn’t know about him and all the other power hungry assholes in the world?
There are probably more jerks like him in charge than not.
I wonder if Obama would be happy is his daughters married 55 year old men.
This is typical “Sultan” behavior. It’s the typical head of a caliphate or a smaller division of the Dar-al-Islam or house of submission. The big head man has pick of the women who live in his realm, and can do what he wants. This is part of the background of my next novel, a reprise of history that is as old as Mad Mo. Read books like “White Gold” by Giles Milton, during the reigns of other sultans in the Maghreb, to see how totally typical Qaddafi’s behavior was. Compared to Moulay Ismail in Morocco 400 years ago, Qaddafi was an amateur and dilettante. Ismail fathered tens of thousands of babies over his half century as the “successful Hitler” of Morocco.
It’s sad what happens to women in Islamic nations and by Islamic dictators. I wonder if the women in Libya think they are better off now.
They’re too old to be chosen.
Well, there had to be *something* wrong with anyone who shares the dress taste of Prince Charles.
Not to mention gives a billion to Calypso Louie.
Probably not.
He’d rather have them marry 55-year old wimmen.
sad...
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