Wild man Gaddafi provokes Italy on first visit to Rome in 40 years(caption these photos)

The Times(UK) ^ | 06/10/09 | Richard Owen

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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.

[TigerLikesRooster]

[SevenofNine]

MAN he lood old you look old if you got punk by former Warner Bros studio actor

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Lawd....what’s wrong with his face?

[avacado]

Antonio Banderas is not aging well.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

The pictures look like they were taken in the solarium at a bullfighters retirement home.

[ryan71]

He must be there to make a spaghetti western.

[2banana]

He looks like a cartoon character...

[silverleaf]

Oh man, he looks like an age-progressed Keanu Reeves

I wonder what happened to his Chicken Colonel hat

[Ben Mugged]

I wonder what the offspring of Gaddafi and Helen Thomas would look like?

[counterpunch]

[TigerLikesRooster]

He will be a new “Tuco.”

[dead]

Alan Rickman as Mohammar Gaddafi.

[dennisw]

He looks like a roadie in “Spinal Tap”

[givemELL]

Gaddafi bought 10% of Fiat in the mid-seventies for $471 million dollars...no doubt there discussing ‘business’ deals with Berlusconi especially in light of Fiat/Chrysler high profile case...no doubt wants position on board of Fiat in return for trade-offs.

[dennisw]

Some one should photoshop him into that “We don’t need no steenking badges” scene. Get a sombrero on him and a bandolier

[Salamander]

Same thing I thought!

[sorry Alan! no offense intended]

[theDentist]

Just say NO to crack...

... and crackpots.

[BunnySlippers]

Oh, I like his lion ring!

[Mr. Jazzy]

“Gravity is such a bitch!!”

[StormEye]

Did Gaddafi really show up in Italy dressed like? Man, that guy is hilarious. He needs to be on MSNBC with his own political talk show. I bet he'd get higher ratings than Chrissy.