The former leader of Libya, Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was killed in October 2011, the city of his birth, in Sirte. Libya took power on September 1, 1969. His iron rule began to weaken in spring 2011, when rebel forces gradually began to control the country. Dictator had decades to qualify as an enemy of the West, as supporting terrorism. But he also displeasing to his strange behavior. British Newspaper Mirror brought 10 of the strange habits of Gaddafi.
1. When traveling abroad, he received an escort of 300 members, which also included 40 female bodyguards for which insisted it should have been pristine.
2. In 2009, invited to Rome in a food summit, Gaddafi asked 500 women from an escort company, specifying its requirements. They should have been about 1.70 long and 18-35 years old. Gaddafi's wrapped in his white dress, girls were asked to convert to Islam before you offer them a Koran and a signed copy of his Green Book.
3. The first meeting with Tony Blair to Colonel Gaddafi was strange. The Libyan leader insulted the then Prime Minister of Britain, showing that the shoe soles, a move quite contemptuous Arab culture.
4. He received his mantel Bedouin in his travels and in 2007 it opened in the premises of a five star hotel in Paris, which also allowed his camel to come around in the hotel.
5. I addressed only once the UN, where we form a percartjeje insisted that George W. Bush and Blair be tried for war crimes.
6. Once submitted a request to the UN to exclude Switzerland! He had closed while all Swiss firms in Libya, had banned all imports, had canceled flights and had seized Swiss businessmen. This hatred of Switzerland after his son was born 33-year-old Motassim - known as Hannibal - was arrested in Geneva on charges of insulting to a hotel waitress.
7. Gaddafi made more friends during a trip to Italy, even though it superficially "adopted" the small town Antrodoco. Libyan leader had visited once accidentally found the courage to follow the path of the mountain and not jeopardize the tunnel after the L'Aquila earthquake. The city is known for its numerous pine trees.
8. As a dictator who was, when committed them like citizens inside and can also be ordered their release. However, Gaddafi decided to make things with exaggerated. So in 1988 he sent a bulldozer at the gates of Tripoli prison, freeing 400 prisoners.
9. While leading the country, Gaddafi found free time to his passions, as was the design of the car. In 2009 it was discovered Saroukh Al-Jamahiriya - "Libyan Rocket". Libya claimed that the car was safe in the world and can voyage hundreds of miles with a blown rubber.
10. During his failed attempt to leave the country from Western influence, Gaddafi began to replace all English words with Arabic equivalents, even brand names. So, Johnny Walker became Hanah Mashi and 7 Up was replaced with Saba'a Fauq
10 moments of Gaddafi
The former leader of Libya, Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was killed in October 2011, the city of his birth, in Sirte. Libya took power on September 1, 1969. His iron rule began to weaken in spring 2011, when rebel forces gradually began to control the country. Dictator had decades to qualify as an enemy of the West, as supporting terrorism. But he also displeasing to his strange behavior. British Newspaper Mirror brought 10 of the strange habits of Gaddafi.
1. When traveling abroad, he received an escort of 300 members, which also included 40 female bodyguards for which insisted it should have been pristine.
2. In 2009, invited to Rome in a food summit, Gaddafi asked 500 women from an escort company, specifying its requirements. They should have been about 1.70 long and 18-35 years old. Gaddafi's wrapped in his white dress, girls were asked to convert to Islam before you offer them a Koran and a signed copy of his Green Book.
3. The first meeting with Tony Blair to Colonel Gaddafi was strange. The Libyan leader insulted the then Prime Minister of Britain, showing that the shoe soles, a move quite contemptuous Arab culture.
4. He received his mantel Bedouin in his travels and in 2007 it opened in the premises of a five star hotel in Paris, which also allowed his camel to come around in the hotel.
5. I addressed only once the UN, where we form a percartjeje insisted that George W. Bush and Blair be tried for war crimes.
6. Once submitted a request to the UN to exclude Switzerland! He had closed while all Swiss firms in Libya, had banned all imports, had canceled flights and had seized Swiss businessmen. This hatred of Switzerland after his son was born 33-year-old Motassim - known as Hannibal - was arrested in Geneva on charges of insulting to a hotel waitress.
7. Gaddafi made more friends during a trip to Italy, even though it superficially "adopted" the small town Antrodoco. Libyan leader had visited once accidentally found the courage to follow the path of the mountain and not jeopardize the tunnel after the L'Aquila earthquake. The city is known for its numerous pine trees.
8. As a dictator who was, when committed them like citizens inside and can also be ordered their release. However, Gaddafi decided to make things with exaggerated. So in 1988 he sent a bulldozer at the gates of Tripoli prison, freeing 400 prisoners.
9. While leading the country, Gaddafi found free time to his passions, as was the design of the car. In 2009 it was discovered Saroukh Al-Jamahiriya - "Libyan Rocket". Libya claimed that the car was safe in the world and can voyage hundreds of miles with a blown rubber.
10. During his failed attempt to leave the country from Western influence, Gaddafi began to replace all English words with Arabic equivalents, even brand names. So, Johnny Walker became Hanah Mashi and 7 Up was replaced with Saba'a Fauq
