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Libya leader Libya leader Moammar Khadafy to United Nations: Abolish Switzerland!
According to Swiss minister Christa Markwalder, when Khadafy comes to New York Sept. 23, he will ask the UN to dismantle Switzerland and parcel out the land to neighboring France, Germany andItaly.The UN charter specifically states that no member can threaten the sovereignty of another, so the demand is unlikely to get far. But it's another sign of tension to come during the eccentric dictator's visit.The Libya-Swiss kerfuffle began a year ago, when Khadafy's trouble-making youngest son, Hannibal, was arrested in aGeneva hotel for beating two servants with a belt and a coat-hanger.He had previously had run-ins with cops in France and Italy and once was busted for driving drunk on Paris' Champs-Elysees at 90 mph - the wrong way.Libya retaliated with fury, recalling some diplomats, withdrawing $5 billion from Swiss banks, shuttering the Tripoli office ofNestle and threatening to cut oil deliveries. Two Swiss businessmen were barred from leaving the country until Libya received an apology for Hannibal's arrest.For a year, the issue festered. Two weeks ago, Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merztraveled to Tripoli to apologize for the arrest and Libya promised to let the hostages go by Sept. 1.However, they have yet to be freed. Now Merz is fending off accusations of appeasement and calls for his resignation.The British government, too, is still in trouble over their own dealings with Libya as more details leak out about closed-door negotiations over releasing the Lockerbiebomber.Justice Minister Jack Straw took personal calls from a British Petroleum lobbyist who wanted him to include the bomber in a 2007 prisoner transfer agreement with Libya.The Times of London reported that Straw was lobbied by Sir Mark Allen, a former MI6agent who signed on with BP to help protect a $900 million oil deal with Libya.Straw has admitted he caved to the demand, but says it's irrelevant because bomber Abdulbaset al-Megrahi was never transferred to a Libyan jail under the prisoner transfer deal.Instead, he was freed outright because he is dying.
According to Swiss minister Christa Markwalder, when Khadafy comes to New York Sept. 23, he will ask the UN to dismantle Switzerland and parcel out the land to neighboring France, Germany andItaly.The UN charter specifically states that no member can threaten the sovereignty of another, so the demand is unlikely to get far. But it's another sign of tension to come during the eccentric dictator's visit.The Libya-Swiss kerfuffle began a year ago, when Khadafy's trouble-making youngest son, Hannibal, was arrested in aGeneva hotel for beating two servants with a belt and a coat-hanger.He had previously had run-ins with cops in France and Italy and once was busted for driving drunk on Paris' Champs-Elysees at 90 mph - the wrong way.Libya retaliated with fury, recalling some diplomats, withdrawing $5 billion from Swiss banks, shuttering the Tripoli office ofNestle and threatening to cut oil deliveries. Two Swiss businessmen were barred from leaving the country until Libya received an apology for Hannibal's arrest.For a year, the issue festered. Two weeks ago, Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merztraveled to Tripoli to apologize for the arrest and Libya promised to let the hostages go by Sept. 1.However, they have yet to be freed. Now Merz is fending off accusations of appeasement and calls for his resignation.The British government, too, is still in trouble over their own dealings with Libya as more details leak out about closed-door negotiations over releasing the Lockerbiebomber.Justice Minister Jack Straw took personal calls from a British Petroleum lobbyist who wanted him to include the bomber in a 2007 prisoner transfer agreement with Libya.The Times of London reported that Straw was lobbied by Sir Mark Allen, a former MI6agent who signed on with BP to help protect a $900 million oil deal with Libya.Straw has admitted he caved to the demand, but says it's irrelevant because bomber Abdulbaset al-Megrahi was never transferred to a Libyan jail under the prisoner transfer deal.Instead, he was freed outright because he is dying.
