Libyan Leader Muammar Gadhafi Died in Geneva, Switzerland

I had a dream about 6 or 7 years ago about Muammar Gadhafi. The entire dream consisted of a news bulletin where Tom Brokaw announced that "Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi died today in Geneva, Switzerland."

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Libya's Gaddafi urges 'holy war' against Switzerland

Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has called for a jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland, as an ongoing diplomatic row between the two nations heats up.

He criticised a recent Swiss vote against the building of minarets and said Muslims must boycott the country.

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Libya demands diplomatic concessions from Swiss
By ELIANE ENGELER (AP) – 1 day ago

GENEVA — A Libyan official called on Switzerland to make concessions in the ongoing diplomatic dispute between the countries, saying Thursday that a travel ban on leader Moammar Gadhafi was a "big humiliation" to the African country.

The remarks by Libya's acting U.N. ambassador in Geneva downplayed hopes that a compromise could be reached.

Ibrahim Aldredi said Switzerland needed to take a number of steps to resolve the diplomatic tussle, sparked by the 2008 arrest in Switzerland of Gadhafi's son. It has now affected most of Europe as a result of retaliatory travel sanctions from Tripoli.

Aldredi demanded charges against the Geneva policemen who arrested Hannibal Gadhafi and his wife for allegedly beating up their servants. He also said the Swiss must find out who leaked mug shots of Hannibal after the arrest, and urged Switzerland to recommit to an international tribunal with the power to award compensation to the Gadhafi family.

The travel restrictions on Libya's leader, his son and nearly 200 other senior officials and family members must also be dropped, Aldredi said, reading out about 50 names of the sanctioned individuals, including the current U.N. General Assembly president.

"This ban was taken for political reasons," he said through a translator. "It is a big humiliation to the symbols and people of Libya."

The Swiss government said it wasn't the cause of the problems, and that it still sought a diplomatic agreement. "In deals with Libya, Switzerland has always fulfilled its part of the bargain," Foreign Ministry spokesman Adrian Sollberger said.

Aldredi's news conference was the first given by a Libyan official in Switzerland since the crisis started.

He spoke a day after Libya's U.N. ambassador in New York, Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham, also blamed the Swiss for starting and worsening an unnecessary dispute in a similarly unusual event.

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