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Wild man Gaddafi provokes Italy on first visit to Rome in 40 years(caption these photos)
The Times(UK) ^ | 06/10/09 | Richard Owen

Posted on 06/10/2009 11:20:17 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Wild man Gaddafi provokes Italy on first visit to Rome in 40 years

Richard Owen, Rome

Colonel Gaddafi has arrived in Rome at the start of an historic visit to Libya's former colonial masters with an archive photograph provocatively pinned to his chest showing the arrest of an anti-Italy guerilla fighter dubbed "The Lion of the Desert".

The photograph shows the arrest in 1931 by colonial Italian troops of the Libyan guerilla leader Omar al Mukhtar. Al Mukhtar's frail elderly son, who descended the aircraft steps with difficulty just behind Gaddafi in traditional white Arab robes, is part of the 300-strong delegation accompanying the Libyan leader. A Libyan financed 1980s feature film on the anti colonial struggle, The Lion of the Desert, was recently broadcast on Italian television for the first time.


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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaddafi; italy
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“The Braying Jackass Of the Desert”


21 posted on 06/10/2009 11:37:54 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: SevenofNine

mickey rourke ping


22 posted on 06/10/2009 11:38:50 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: StormEye

Chrissy might get another tingly feeling up his leg..


23 posted on 06/10/2009 11:39:11 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Ughhh.... I think one of those goat’s eyes I had for breakfast must’ve been off.


24 posted on 06/10/2009 11:40:24 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: TigerLikesRooster
hey its Gene Simmons!
25 posted on 06/10/2009 11:41:08 AM PDT by DM1
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Look! Michael Jackson is now completely white.


26 posted on 06/10/2009 11:41:22 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: dead

LOL...I was just going to say he looked like Alan Rickman....an older and disheveled Alan Rickman.


27 posted on 06/10/2009 11:47:19 AM PDT by Crolis (Kill your television!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I thought it was Michale Jackson for a moment!!!


28 posted on 06/10/2009 11:55:00 AM PDT by pikachu (Caution. The above is the view of a white male and will not be as well formed as one from a latina!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Talk about holding a grudge! But maybe the President of Italy should show up at the state dinner with pictures of Lockerbie and an old Libyan-sponsored slaughter at Fiumicino International airport.

No doubt they’ll be talking about Oil / Gas / and illegal immigration, seeing as most of the boats making land on Sicily are leaving from Gedaffiland.

As usual, the Libyan leader will be sleeping in a tent (in Villa Borghese) much to the distress of joggers and secret lovers.


29 posted on 06/10/2009 12:06:10 PM PDT by Youaskedforit
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To: TigerLikesRooster

My name is Imigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

30 posted on 06/10/2009 12:08:38 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (I knew that Whopper was angry, but I didn't think it would try to kill me!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good heavens. He looks completely insane.


31 posted on 06/10/2009 12:10:20 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SeeSharp

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that.


32 posted on 06/10/2009 12:58:10 PM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

OMG! He is ONE WEIRD LOOKING DUDE....

Seriously he looks ill. And he has had some BAD work done - trust on this.


33 posted on 06/10/2009 1:07:12 PM PDT by FeliciaCat (I like my money where I can see it...hanging in my closet.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Operation El Dorado Canyon...too bad we missed.


34 posted on 06/10/2009 1:09:59 PM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

After all these years and he still is only a friggin colonel?


35 posted on 06/10/2009 1:25:38 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: SeeSharp

36 posted on 06/10/2009 1:47:49 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (When you put Democrats in charge, stupid things happen)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Drugs are bad...mmmkay?


37 posted on 06/10/2009 1:49:57 PM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
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To: DM1

38 posted on 06/10/2009 2:26:02 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: dead

His eyes look dead...


39 posted on 06/10/2009 4:48:33 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: trisham

Yes, he does. That’s what I thought, too. His eyes are vacant.


40 posted on 06/10/2009 4:50:04 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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