They're in Algeria
Algeria has notified the UN Security Council that Hannibal Gaddafi is there.
Algeria’s state news agency reports that Muammar Gaddafi’s wife Safia, daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal and Mohammend have crossed the border into the country with their children today.
Algeria reported their arrival to the UN secretary-general and the UN Security Council, and also to the Transitional National Council.
Ahmed Jibril of the TNC said “We will demand that Algerian authorities hand them over to Libya to be tried before Libyan courts.”
The TNC said that if Algeria shelters the Gaddafi family, Libya will see this as an act of aggression. It will ask for them to be extradited.
Algeria is suspected of providing Gaddafi with mercenaries since February.
Last Saturday, a fleet of armoured Mercedes cars was seen crossing from Libya into Algeria, reportedly carrying Gaddafi and his other sons. Algeria vehemently denied that the Gaddafis were in those cars last Saturday.
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Anyone wanna bet Algeria goes next? I was betting on Morocco.
[Daphne – Algeria, triggered by anger at the presence of the Gaddafis.]
Ah, that’s a tricky one.
The thing about Algeria is that there is no unified anti-Bouteflika front.
There are Islamists, there are Bouteflika’s cronies, and there’s the great unknown: the Berber and Kabyle population. All mixed up on some very complex topography.
And we in the West keep getting our clichés wrong: France has no more say in Algerian affairs than I have in Sarkozy’s choice of breakfast cereal, and “foreign Al Qaeda elements” are very much present this time round.
If it all boils over, it’ll be a nasty war.
Nasty, but fascinating.
And perhaps it’ll convince Algerians of the real cause of their economic backwardness – their own leaders.
Pray that Algeria does not go up in flames. I have worked there and knowing the past history of the place (1945 – 1962 and 1990 – 2000) it would make the Libya/Egypt/Tunisia uprisings look like a children’s birthday party fight.
Absolutely. Just about the only thing that’s keeping the country together is the people’s rabid, irrational hatred of France.
Anglu Farrugia should have lent Hannibal his elephant for the crossing.
Bieb bieb, dar dar, xiber xiber, zenga zenga.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110829/local/workers-evacuated-safely-to-malta.382356
How could the Maltese businessman interviewed in this film clip knowingly endanger his life and (worse!) THAT OF HIS DEPENDENTS for six whole months for the sake of his “business” which remained undisclosed?
He must have a very submissive, understanding and forgiving wife.
‘Algeria’s state news agency reports that Muammar Gaddafi’s wife Safia, daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal and Mohammend have crossed the border into the country with their children today.’
Hannibal is the one with the sadistic wife who got nabbed by the Swiss last year for mistreating her servants .
Anyone seen the unspeakable video clip shown on CNN OF the çhildrens’ nanny she mistreated this last year ?
[Daphne – http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/08/29/the-gaddafis-are-the-21st-century-version-of-nero-and-caligula/ ]
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110829/local/pl-holds-muslim-iftar-festival.382444
I think that it is HARAM for an infidel man to shake a Muslim woman’s hand.
[Daphne – Whatever. I know this, though: his body language screams: “I’m patronising you and I think I’m being so democratic by doing it.”]
If it was Haraam here then the Islamic PL candidate would have informed Joseph not to do it.
Did anyone notice the subtext to all this? Gaddafi goes down. Labour, suddenly denuded of funds, desperately flails around trying to find some new device to charm the Libyans.
Hey presto, a party for Malta’s Muslim community i.e. mostly Libyan expats.
Quite right. Patronizing ……..and smug!
Naf li m’ghandux x’jaqsam, but I simply can’t resist:
Muscat got a “three-for-the-price of one” photo at tonight’s photo-op – You know, a woman who happens to be coloured and Muslim too. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110829/local/pl-holds-muslim-iftar-festival.382444 Cheap, eh? More than the whole “event” itself.
Does that idot of KMB have the guts and balls to comment on this issue.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/libya.gadhafi.nanny/index.html
I am sure these peole are under trauma Aisha lost her husband in the conflict just a month ago.
Sure, in the conflict that was started by her own father when the people rose up and peacefully demanded basic human rights, which rights had been denied them for 42 years.
So did thousands of others, thanks to the maniacal behaviour of the Gaddafis.