Daddy Gaddafi Quits Pumping Switzerland Oil Over Son's Arrest
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com     Jul 25, 2008            

Payback.Demonstrators hold posters of Hannibal Gaddafi during an anti-Swiss rally outside the Swiss embassy in Tripoli July 24, 2008. OPEC member Libya is halting oil shipments to Switzerland in protest at the arrest of Hannibal, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, workers of state-owned Maritime Transport National Corporation said on Thursday. (REUTERS) Gaddafi cuts off the tap.Libyan Leader Moamar Gaddafi says he will quit pumping oil to Switzerland over his sons arrest last week.Dawn reported:Libya said on Thursday it would halt fuel supplies to key oil client Switzerland in the latest reprisal for last week’s brief detention in Geneva of a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.The supplies affected are those transported by ships operated by Libya’s General National Maritime Transport Company, a statement issued by the... [read full story]                    


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