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Tuesday, 31 August 2010

The shakedown

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi tells Europe to pay him €5 billion a year to stop "illegal immigration".

Translation: Pay the Danegeld or I invade.

I seem to recall Gaddafi behaving himself after a few bombs were dropped on his house and when a brother dictator was toppled from power and he thought he was next on the list.

Maybe it's time he was given another little lesson.
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2 comments:

  1. SergejTuesday, 31 August 2010 at 10:34:00 GMT-7

    Five billion euros, with either the correct, or the goofy British number of zeros, will buy a lot of bombs. Not that I'm seeing the kind of leadership that would actually use them that way or anything.

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  2. Matthew M. Robare Wednesday, 1 September 2010 at 19:14:00 GMT-7

    You're worried about an invasion from a man who once employed Billy Carter and dresses like Michael Jackson?

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