Gaddafi's Foreign Adventures

The loss of his role as African Union chairman appears to have disturbed the 'Gadfather's' normal equilibrium and he's now having spats with all and sundry ...

Hannibal Gaddafi Deported

He started with the Swiss, where his call for a Jihad (Holy War "Let us wage jihad against Switzerland, Zionism and foreign aggression," he said. "Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against Muhammad, God and the Koran".

His beef against the Swiss was prompted by the fact that his violent family had been up to their usual trick of beating the hotel staff, after Hannibal Gaddafi, 32, was arrested at the five star Hotel President Wilson, after two maids accused him (along with his wife) of hitting them.

This had prompted swift actions by the Swiss authorities, who banned a number of Libyan officials (including the Gaddafi boys) from entering the country ..... however officially, it was not the expulsion of his son and daughter-in-law that prompted the Gadfathers call for jihad, but the Swiss ban on minarets that had officially prompted the tit for tat retaliations.

The UN wasn't amused, and top UN official Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the UN chief in Geneva, has condemned the calls as "inadmissible". "Such declarations on the part of the head of state are inadmissible in international relations," he said.

Anyway, moving swiftly on, his sensible (I thought) calls for Nigeria to be split in to two nations, one Muslim and one Christian, in order to end the fighting between the groups ... has been met with hostility by the Nigerians, who have withdrawn their ambassador and said some harsh words.

The Nigerian foreign ministry said the Libyan leader's statement was "irresponsible". Earlier in the week, a senator had called Col Gaddafi a "mad man". The foreign ministry said it was recalling its Tripoli ambassador for "urgent negotiations" because of the "irresponsible utterances of Colonel Gaddafi ...... His theatrics and grandstanding at every auspicious occasion have become too numerous to recount," said the statement.

Hannibal Gaddafi was also detained in Paris in 2005, for alleged violence against his companion after incidents in two luxury hotels in the city, whilst he also gained notoriety for driving down the Champs Elysees at 140 kilometres per hour (87 mph) before being stopped by police. In 2009 Hannibal Gaddafi's wife, Aline Skaf, was found in a hotel room in Claridges, London, bleeding heavily, after screams were heard, and she was taken by ambulance to hospital, where she was treated for facial injuries inflicted by ... well, the body guards were arrested for obstruction, but Hannibal was not in the suite, and his wife wasn't talking.

Ah well, not a good couple of months for the 'Gadfather' ..... but he'll be back!

Mini Update 2023: As we all know, Gaddafi and his odious clan were toppled from power. Gaddafi and some of his sons were killed .... but most of them survived .... Hannibal is currently languishing in a Lebanese jail. Hannibal Gaddafi has been held without charge in Lebanon since 2015, and his health has been reported as deteriorating since he went on hunger strike on June 3 2023, in protest at his detention without trial ... mind you as its now December 2023 he must be eating again.

The matter of his detention, is strongly linked to the disappearance of Lebanese Shia leader, Moussa al-Sadr, who went missing in Libya in 1978 (Presumed killed or imprisoned on Muammar Gaddafi’s orders). Hannibal had been living in exile in Syria with wife Aline Skaf (who is Syrian) but he was abducted and taken to Lebanon eight years ago by Lebanese fighters demanding information on the whereabouts of al-Sadr.

Gaddafi was then picked up by the police (circumstances unexplained) in the city of Baalbek, in northeastern Lebanon, where he had been held. He has then taken to a Beirut jail where he has remained, uncharged. It has been noted that Lebanon’s powerful parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, heads the Amal group militia (founded by Moussa al-Sadr), and which fought in the Lebanese civil war 1975-1990 ... and that explains the detention. Moussa al-Sadr would be 94 if he's still alive.