Sunday, March 6, 2011

Luxury suites for Berlusconi

Here is the Latvian Gaddafi has offered to Berlusconi. Twice prime minister and rested in suite 204 of the former officers' club that overlooks the sea of Benghazi. In September 2008, when the capital of Cyrenaica found the agreement and signed the Treaty with the Italian-Libyan Colonel takes its name from the city where it was signed and, apparently, again a year ago, in February 2010, at A second visit to his friend dictator.

The suites, with sumptuous luxury flood of Arab television, curtains in pastel colors, brightly colored pottery is one of the four obtained on the first floor of the building, built in a military complex and adapted to receive the leader Gaddafi friends. The triumphal entry after a short flight of steps overlooking a hall in which hung portraits of opportunity for B & G smiling.

Looking up a cascading chandelier hangs from the ceiling before the window overlooking the sea, two columns, glazed Chinese-style contemporary with bright floral, framing the view. On the right leads to the billiard room. A curved staircase to first floor, where the first green room doors slide is marked with the number 205: Here, the guest was on both occasions Moutassem, the son of Nasser as head of the praetorian guard of his father, who had in recent past is also a relationship with a pin-up Italian.

His bathroom is the only one with a Jacuzzi with a plasma TV included. To the left of the entrance gallery of the suite room dedicated to Berlusconi: number 203, for the bodyguards, and 204. Both with shower and mini-sauna. Then the room of Gaddafi, who has rested on those occasions, however, the residence across town, now devastated by the rebels.

The Italian prime minister would spend in these rooms a few hours between appointments of officers and of course - remember who was part of slavery on those occasions - has enjoyed particular leisure: the only ones allowed in the residence were the dignitaries of the regime as the Minister Foreign Koussi Mussa and the head of the Protocol of Nasser Nouri Mesmari.

Gaddafi also on his visits to Benghazi never gave a display of extravagance, as the harem of followers that we have become accustomed in Italy. The population of Cyrenaica has always looked with suspicion if not hatred. During those visits were also discussed and resolved knots of cord-linking Italy to Libya and Qaddafi were asked to Rome for an official apology for the colonial period, "but we - say now who takes the visitor - This friendship we have seen, hence it is not passed, that agreement was only business.

" The building was in danger of being looted and destroyed in the early days of the revolt of Benghazi, as the official residence of Saddam, as happened to Saddam a few years earlier, but some have taken care to preserve it, because now is part of the wealth the liberated city. " And history.

from the March 6, 2011

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