Originally Posted by alib

On the other hand Muammar is the Beau Brummell of tinpot dictators. Here he is standing out amongst the usual suspects:

I can't help but feel that the Japanese guy (?) on Gadhafi's right is just trying not to look at him.

Originally Posted by Krazy_Ivan

So no more sales of Toblerones in Libya; Do the the Swiss actually have any ships?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army#Naval_patrol

I met someone who'd served in it. 'Lake Geneva is bigger than you think' - priceless.

Ahh! Gadhafi Duck......he's baaaack! The French must be squirming now - they can't say a thing otherwise they'll be thrown out and quickly replaced by the Chinese.

Originally Posted by alib

On the other hand Muammar is the Beau Brummell of tinpot dictators. Here he is standing out amongst the usual suspects:

Looks like Gary Oldman in the 5th Element.....

Originally Posted by Le_addeur_noir

So the mad dog of the Maghreb is at it again.

This bloke is totally barking mad.Not to mention corrupt and dangerous.

A supplier of weapons to the IRA and illicit funds to Scragill's NUM during the Thatcher years.

The French are trying to sell Rafale fighter jets to this regime and have been re-conditioning the Libyan Mirage fleet.

A pity Libya wasn't flattened in 1986 when the Americans struck with F-111s and jets off an aircraft carrier in the Med.

Seconded.

Originally Posted by Krazy_Ivan

Originally Posted by alib

On the other hand Muammar is the Beau Brummell of tinpot dictators. Here he is standing out amongst the usual suspects:

I can't help but feel that the Japanese guy (?) on Gadhafi's right is just trying not to look at him.

Korean, Ban ki Moon.

Gadhafi Duck should just shuttle off this mortal coil already

Not Gadhafi but mentality Same Same as we say here.

http://dotsub.com/view/84f5c72d-b0ba...3-8cc40995e011

john

Originally Posted by jonwilly

Not Gadhafi but mentality Same Same as we say here.

http://dotsub.com/view/84f5c72d-b0ba...3-8cc40995e011

john

Your comparing Pat Condell to Gadhafi?.....

Yeah right on
john
Like ya style.

Islamic radicals 'infiltrate' the Labour Party
A Labour minister says his party has been infiltrated by a fundamentalist Muslim group that wants to create an “Islamic social and political order” in Britain.


By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 10:00PM GMT 27 Feb 2010

The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state — has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly, to be able to achieve “mass mobilisation” of voters.

Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, said the IFE had become, in effect, a secret party within Labour and other political parties.

“They are acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the political parties, recruiting members to those political parties, trying to get individuals selected and elected so they can exercise political influence and power, whether it’s at local government level or national level,” he said.

“They are completely at odds with Labour’s programme, with our support for secularism.”

Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town, said the IFE had infiltrated and “corrupted” his party in east London in the same way that the far-Left Militant Tendency did in the 1980s. Leaked Labour lists show a 110 per cent rise in party membership in one constituency in two years.

In a six-month investigation by this newspaper and Channel 4’s Dispatches, involving weeks of covert filming by the programme’s reporters:

* IFE activists boasted to the undercover reporters that they had already “consolidated … a lot of influence and power” over Tower Hamlets, a London borough council with a £1 billion budget.
* We have established that the group and its allies were awarded more than £10 million of taxpayers’ money, much of it from government funds designed to “prevent violent extremism”.
* IFE leaders were recorded expressing opposition to democracy, support for sharia law or mocking black people. The IFE organised meetings with extremists, including Taliban allies, a man named by the US government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a man under investigation by the FBI for his links to the September 11 attacks.
* Moderate Muslims in London told how the IFE and its allies were enforcing their hardline views on the rest of the local community, curbing behaviour they deemed “un-Islamic”. The owner of a dating agency received a threatening email from an IFE activist, warning her to close it.
* George Galloway, a London MP, admitted in recordings obtained by this newspaper that his surprise victory in the 2005 election owed more to the IFE “than it would be wise – for them – for me to say, adding that they played a “decisive role” in his triumph at the polls.

Mr Galloway now says they were one of many groups which supported his anti-war stance and had never sought to influence him.

The IFE has particularly close links to Tower Hamlets council. Seven serving and former councillors said Lutfur Rahman, the current council leader, gained his post with the group’s help.

Some said they were canvassed by a senior IFE official on his behalf. After Mr Rahman was elected, a man with close links to the group, Lutfur Ali, was appointed assistant chief executive of the council with responsibility for grant funding.

This was despite a chequered employment record, a misleading CV and a negative report from the headhunters appointed to consider the candidates. The council’s white chief executive was subsequently forced from his post.

Since Mr Rahman became leader, more council grants have been paid to a number of organisations which our investigation established are closely linked to the IFE.

Funding for other, secular groups was ended or cut. In the borough’s well-known Brick Lane area, council funds were switched from a largely secular heritage trail to a highly controversial “hijab sculpture”, angering many residents who accused the council of “religious triumphalism”.

Schools in Tower Hamlets are told by the council should close for the Muslim festival of Eid, even where most of their pupils are not Muslim.

Mr Rahman refused to deny that an IFE activist had canvassed councillors on his behalf. He said: “There are various people across Tower Hamlets who get excited, who get involved.”

He would not comment on concerns about infiltration, saying they were “party matters”. He said: “If you look at our flagship policies, like investing £20 million to tackle overcrowding, you can see that we are working for everyone.”

The IFE said it did not seek to influence the council and had not lobbied for Mr Rahman. “If anything, existing members of the Labour Party have joined the IFE, rather than the other way round,” it said.

The group insisted it was not a fundamentalist or extremist organisation and did not support violence.

john the infidel.