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PARIS — A French company provided Libya in 2008 with a specialised 4X4 designed to protect Moamer Kadhafi while he traveled, and the French presidency signed off on the deal, Mediapart reported online Sunday.
The vehicle, capable of neutralising any electric field within a 100-metre (328-feet) radius, was made by Amesys, a subsidiary of the French technology firm Bull, which earlier this month acknowledged it had dealings with Kadhafi's regime.
"The sale of this material received, in 2007, the support of (then) interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his chief of staff Claude Gueant. The vehicle was eventually delivered in 2008, with the green light, this time, of the (presidency)," Mediapart wrote.
The French presidency declined to comment when contacted by AFP.
Mediapart detailed, citing supporting documents, the vehicle's technical specifications and the four million euros ($5.5 million dollars) Libya paid for it.
The report said the 4X4 Mercedes was equipped with a Faraday cage that protected the occupants from external electric fields, and with a system capable of knocking out surrounding radio frequencies.
The sale of the 4X4 was, according to Mediapart, part of a two-pronged deal with the Libyan regime called the "Homeland Security Program" that included equipment which enabled Kadhafi's fallen dictatorship to monitor Libya's Internet network and conduct email surveillance.
The 26.5 million euro deal, signed in 2007 between Bull-Amesys, was orchestrated by the French-Lebanese arms dealer Ziad Takieddine, Mediapart further reported.
On September 1, Amesys, responding to an earlier report in the Wall Street Journal, said it agreed in 2007 to sell Kadhafi's regime its "Eagle" system, which allowed the regime to monitor a small part of Libya's Internet connections.
The company said the deal was signed "in the context of international diplomatic rapprochement with Libya which supported the international fight against terrorism and crimes committed by Al-Qaeda."
Sherpa, a French watchdog group, last week filed a complaint against Amesys for selling Kadhafi's regime equipment designed "to track rebel forces" that could have violated privacy rights, a judicial source said.
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Mental Image
Too.... Awesome
Ninja'd
The Kadmobile ?
Usually I don't comment on the different spellings, but fucking [i]seriously?[/i]
Kadhafi?
[QUOTE=smurfy;32374590]Usually I don't comment on the different spellings, but fucking [i]seriously?[/i][/QUOTE]It's the French version.. Arabic translates weird to different languages.
Why would you translate the name of a person in the 21st century?
[QUOTE=wewt!;32374682]Why would you translate the name of a person in the 21st century?[/QUOTE]Because "French firm sold مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي a batmobile" doesn't have the same ring to it.
[QUOTE=wewt!;32374682]Why would you translate the name of a person in the 21st century?[/QUOTE]
Its transliteration not translation, because مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي is slightly harder to write than Gaddafi.
Kadhafi looks like the way the American media spell it, I think when it comes down to choosing which one to use its based on how the writer says it. If you listen to most American reporters say his name they pronounce it with a K while most (if not all) of the UK media pronounce it with a G.
This title...
Heh heh.
"Moomer".
You want to know something funny about dictators and France ?
Jean-Marie LePen, the National Front's previous leader, got his last political campaign during presidential elections financed by an African dictator.
Coming from a guy who still believe Bolsheviks and the USSR still exist and that France should be closed to the rest of the world by gigantic anti-stranger barriers, I can totally see the logic.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32374993]You want to know something funny about dictators and France ?
Jean-Marie LePen, the National Front's previous leader, got his last political campaign during presidential elections financed by an African dictator.
Coming from a guy who still believe Bolsheviks and the USSR still exist and that France should be closed to the rest of the world by gigantic anti-stranger barriers, I can totally see the logic.[/QUOTE]
Has there ever been a dictator who's not a gigantic hypocrite
Gaddafi mobile.
Gaddafi is the hero Libya deserves but not the one it needs right now, so they hunt him because he can take it.
Hes actually hiding in the Gad cave under tripoli.
[QUOTE=MendozaMan;32380341]Has there ever been a dictator who's not a gigantic hypocrite[/QUOTE]
"Has there ever been a racist who's not a gigantic hypocrite" works pretty well too :v:
Confirmed: Ghadafi is Bizzaro Batman.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32374993]You want to know something funny about dictators and France ?
Jean-Marie LePen, the National Front's previous leader, got his last political campaign during presidential elections financed by an African dictator.
Coming from a guy who still believe Bolsheviks and the USSR still exist and that France should be closed to the rest of the world by gigantic anti-stranger barriers, I can totally see the logic.[/QUOTE]
Wat.
[QUOTE=benzi2k7;32374710]Because "French firm sold مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي a batmobile" doesn't have the same ring to it.[/QUOTE]
God i wish i was as good as i was when i was little. I lived 4 years here and i'm already starting to forget arabic. I can still read, talk, write very easily but reading is becoming a hassle
[QUOTE=Region;32388430]God i wish i was as good as i was when i was little. I lived 4 years here and i'm already starting to forget arabic. I can still read, talk, write very easily but reading is becoming a hassle[/QUOTE]
I've heard of that happening.
Practice. You won't regret it.
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