The only winner of the Swiss/Libya debacle is Gaddafi...

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“A whole line of top European politicians had to turn up at the circus in [Gaddafi’s] tent in Tripoli for Göldi to get his papers,” observed the Basler Zeitung.

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“Calmy-Rey sits in a tent with kidnapper [Moammar] Gaddafi, and his good friend [Italian Prime Minister Silvio] Berlusconi, and has to grin and bear it.”

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“He got everything he wanted: repeated apologies – for the mugshots [of Hannibal] and from Hans-Rudolf Merz for the arrest; the admiration of his people and a large part of the Muslim world for having taught ‘mafioso’ Switzerland a lesson; the creation of a court of arbitration to ensure that any guilty parties will be punished.” Full story...

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