It’s been 2 weeks since the Libyans started to rebel against their eccentric but all-too-present leader of 41 years. In this time, as well as throughout his 41 year-career, Gaddafi has become a by-word for bizarre, loopy, eccentric, raving mad, delusional and dangerous. As his country’s situation looks more and more troubled and bloody, his words become further divorced from reality. His utterings as he insists he hasn’t yet applied force, become ludicrous when compared to the reality and images coming out of his fragmenting bleeding country. The crux of ...

Gaddafi’s clan have been described as a Motley but dangerous lot. Nothing bland from the seed of such a scandalous father.Though he is known for attracting a crowd, his children are, with the exception of the more private Saif al-Arab, hardly prone to withdrawal from the public eye either. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has a total of eight children, one with his first wife Fathia Khaled and seven with his second wife Safia Farkash, once a nurse. A third woman, his now nurse, is on the family scene, not surprising ...

From the Arab Gulf kingdoms, to the more troubled Mid Eastern hot spots of Egypt and Iraq, leaders and patrons have their serene sea decks to keep them distracted from the noise of the rabble on stormy land! These prize toys for the uber-wealthy or floating cities as they’ve been tagged, are some of the largest and most luxurious yachts , racking up prestigious Superyacht Awards. Some of the world’s richest billionaires keep floating palaces and pleasure decks, and some of these happen to be members of the royal or ...

We had Bushisms from a leader who didn't mind embarassing his country and himself. Now we bring you Qaddafisms from another shameless man who has had his share of (circus) moments of clowning around in the public arena and in the courts of propreity and protocol. This man has flouted all the rules of decorum unabashedly, and has made some blooper lines of his own on the scale of Bush, that bring more than his IQ into question, but the need to bring his sanity into check ! We bring ...

Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi; also known simply as Colonel Gaddafi; born 7 June 1942) has been the de facto leader of Libya since a coup in 1969. That's more than a decade longer than Mubarak, whose nation seemed to run out of patience with. From 1972, when Gaddafi relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" or "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" in government statements and the official press ...

Valentine's Day Love Sickness: Sick of Berlusconi’s Love Life A nation of Italian lovers shows little love for their Lothario Leader this Valentine’s Day The Italian prime minister Berlusconi is feeling unloved this Valentines: He claimed in an interview he was the target of an attempt to oust him by undemocratic means. And, it would seem, by women no less. Following the wave of protests in the Middle East and particularly North Africa, demonstrations, largely female led, were held on Sunday and Monday 14 February in 257 Italian and foreign ...

Arabs celebrated the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak on Friday 11 February and praised the resolve and pluckiness of the protesters, the Egyptians masses, and expressed the hope that their own demands for change now reverberate throughout the Middle East. They set off fireworks and gunshots in the skies of the Lebanese capital Beirut and the Gaza Strip and the city of Sana'aa, Yemen. While over in the rich Gulf Arab states celebrations were more hushed for this second dictator departure in the space of a month. And the rule ...

The family's fortune is rumoured to be in the range of 40 to 70 billion U.S. dollars. Britain's Guardian newspaper in concert wtih Middle East experts and state- led security investigations into allegations of corruption against the ruling National Demotratic Party, have popularized this figure after their report was published in the early days of the Egyptian Revolution. The report alleges that this wealth is distributed between accounts in British and Swiss banks , and real estate in Britain, the United States and Egypt . The public furor that was ...

An increasingly frustrated and tired people running out of stamina but maintaining a wicked sense of humor, the Egyptian protesting camp still wait out their Leader's much-called-for departure, injecting a wry humor into their appeals to him to get on with it and leave them to rest. Literally. The following signs are clips of Al Bawaba's favorites.