Deposed Libyan dictator Mummar Gaddafi’s youngest son, ironically named Hannibal, misplaced his iPad. Not that one can really blame him, after all these things happen when one is kidnapped by rebels, as he was on Lebanon’s Syrian border recently. The iPad revealed a mosaic of Gaddafi’s personal life, juxtaposing images of luxe travel and designer shopping sprees with his beautiful wife as well as the broken and bloodied bodies of men thought to have opposed his father’s rule in Libya.
Evidently the tablet was originally seized by from Hannibal’s home in Tripoli by militiamen who were opposing his father’s regime in 2011 and was smuggled out of the country by journalists and activist groups. The images found on his iPad have been made public since his arrest in Lebanon on December 13th of this year.
The images range from pictures of luxurious designer shopping trips with his former lingerie model wife, Aline Skaf, to pictures of men who are beaten and bloodied in what is assumed to be one of the most notorious Libyan prisons under his father’s reign-Bosleem.
Not that Mrs. Gaddafi is living a life that is all peaches and cream. In 2009 police were called to London’s swank Claridge’s Hotel following up on reports of a woman screaming in his suite. His wife was taken to a local hospital and treated for facial injuries after being discovered in the room bleeding. A scant three years later the family fled Libya to Algeria and then were granted asylum in Oman in 2012.
Incredible isn’t it? The juxtaposition of so much pain and suffering and so much wealth? Truly, this is a practitioner of the religion of peace at its finest. After all it seems that Hannibal has completely forgotten to observe the holy book’s advice on hypocrisy:
Quran (66:9) – “O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey’s end.”
But, since he is Muslim I guess it doesn’t apply to him.
Wait, Muslims wear bikinis now?
Jodi,
Only former lingerie model Muslimas, evidently.
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