October 18, 2004
LIBYAN GOTHIC
The Colonel's kids: Hannibal, Aisha, Saadi, & Seif
The debauched spawn of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have been behaving badly again. This time it's the old horror's youngest, Mutassim, aka Hannibal. French police arrested 2 of his bodyguards last month after his Porsche zipped through several red lights on the Champs-Elysees at 100mph around 2AM.
When police tried to question him, 2 of Gaddafi's imperial storm troopers assaulted them, injuring 1 cop & trashing a police transmitter. According to the cops, Gaddafi's Porsche reeked of booze, & Gaddafi was 'unable to speak coherently.'
In case you're keeping track, this is the same Hannibal who was escorted to the Rome airport after attacking police with a fire extinguisher at the Hilton, & was involved in another Rome fracas that sent 6 photographers to the hospital (which could explain why photos of the international drunk are few & far between).
He's also unwelcome in Sardinia, where he was thrown out of a nightclub for screaming at waiters, blocked a disco with his Lamborghini, blasted music all nite from his 70 foot luxury yacht the Che Guevara (which flies the Cuban flag) then blaring the Muslim call to prayer after a night of hard partying.
Brother Saadi continues his fantasy life as a soccer player. He sacked the Libyan national soccer coach who described him as useless; Libyan players were said to run backwards in order to avoid having to tackle him. Having delusions of playing for Manchester United & being Africa's greatest soccer player, he signed with Perugia in 2003.
Saadi promptly failed a drug test, perhaps modeling too closely on his coach Ben Johnson, who was stripped of his Olympic gold for the same reason. (Billionaire Saadi did concede that he wasn't actually being paid by Perugia.)
Seif, the Colonel's only semi-respectable scion, negotiated unsuccessfully for Kenneth Bigley's release, having earlier obtained the release of hostages in the Philippines & Mali. This week he announced that Libya was separating from 'the so-called Middle East' & demilitarizing.
Seif previously distinguished himself by keeping a pair of Bengal tigers in his Vienna bachelor digs & becoming fast friends with right-winger ( & fellow Jew-hater) Jorge Haider. The Colonel himself is in Berlin this week for rehabilitation, where he startled Gerhard Schroeder by demanding compensation for landmines left by Erwin Rommel 60 years ago.
No news on swanky moll 'Doctor' Aisha, last seen heading to Baghdad to assist in the legal defense of fellow Sunni gangster Saddam Hussein.
Posted by Jeff at October 18, 2004 05:12 AMComments