Gaddafi's tent is dismantled in New York suburb

[Darklord]

By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK, Sept 23 (*******) - Workers on Wednesday dismantled a tent that had been pitched in suburban Bedford, New York, for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi amid threats of criminal action by local authorities.
Officials in the affluent town, about 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City, had ordered the tent be taken down because it violated building and zoning law, authorities said.
The tent had been put up on land owned by developer Donald Trump. Gaddafi, a famously eccentric figure, is known for pitching a large Bedouin tent on his trips abroad.
It was the Libyan leader's third attempt to have a tent set up in the New York area for his stay.
"The tent is coming down, and he's not staying here tonight," said Donna Greene, spokeswoman for the Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano. Bedford is located in Westchester County.
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A tent??

[Invisigoth]

Gotta give it to him, while being a sick, brutal and despicable despot, he's also entertainingly eccentric.

[commanding]

yeah from what I read, I guess he was gonna dump in the bushes, as his tent was a good ways from the house there. had the tent lined with rugs with pictures of camels and such. plus his satellite dish.
Shame people like him using up good air.

[Ozzy[NO]]

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A tent??

Yepp, Qaddafi likes his circus. He's the main attraction, the clown...

[dave81]

I kind of understand the feelings of some of the people in the community on this, but he's still the head of a foreign state, doesn't that merit some kind of respect and/or diplomatic immunity? Do the people protesting his presence know anything about him other than that he's a "crazy Ay-rab"?

[Ought Six]

They understand that Gaddafi was behind the Lockerbie bombing and the Berlin discotheque bombing. They understand he was behind the murder of a British policewoman who was protecting the Lybian embassy in London. They understand he financed the Munich massacre at the 1972 summer Olympics. They understand he supported a large number of terrorist organizations, notably including Black September, the PLO and the IRA. They know he had five Bulgarian volunteer nurses arrested, tried in his kangaroo courts, and sentenced to death, all to extort aid and nuclear power technical assistance from France. Is there more they really need to know?

[Kaplanr]

Diplomatic Immunity would only cover him if he committed a crime. Screw him, he can stay in a hotel like everyone else.

[wicked_hind]

I bet a flight of F-111s will make him check his attitude.

[SBL]

I kind of understand the feelings of some of the people in the community on this, but he's still the head of a foreign state, doesn't that merit some kind of respect and/or diplomatic immunity? Do the people protesting his presence know anything about him other than that he's a "crazy Ay-rab"?
He can stay in a hotel like every other head-of-state.

[3rdMillhouse]

How about staying in a ****ing hotel? Nutjob...

[sheytanelkebir]

ya'all know the reason the nutjob stays in a tent?

[Darklord]

ya'all know the reason the nutjob stays in a tent?

What is that?

[dave81]

They understand that Gaddafi was behind the Lockerbie bombing and the Berlin discotheque bombing. They understand he was behind the murder of a British policewoman who was protecting the Lybian embassy in London. They understand he financed the Munich massacre at the 1972 summer Olympics. They understand he supported a large number of terrorist organizations, notably including Black September, the PLO and the IRA. They know he had five Bulgarian volunteer nurses arrested, tried in his kangaroo courts, and sentenced to death, all to extort aid and nuclear power technical assistance from France. Is there more they really need to know?I'd like to know why we're still on friendly terms with the Saudis.

[SBL]

I'd like to know why we're still on friendly terms with the Saudis.
It's a strategic partnership, if that means anything to you.

[Karaahmetoglu]

I'd like to know why we're still on friendly terms with the Saudis.


Oil.


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[3rdMillhouse]

I'd like to know why we're still on friendly terms with the Saudis.

Oil.

PS: dude upstairs beat me to it

[sheytanelkebir]

What is that?

when his house was bombed by the usaf in 1986, his adopted daughter was killed inside, and ever since then he's vowed to live in a tent... hence the whole eccentric behaviour... (not that he wasn't mad before).

[James]

Gotta give it to him, while being a sick, brutal and despicable despot, he's also entertainingly eccentric.

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1286/buseyclappingk.gif

[tluassa]

http://www.merkur-online.de/bilder/2009/09/04/459413/1120990437-muammar-al-gaddafi.9.jpg

A picture says more than 1000 words ^^

[Stonewall71]

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A tent??

yep, the guy always sleeps in a beduin tent, that is transported everywhere he goes

http://veja.abril.com.br/imagem/blog/paris/arquivo/57304.jpg

[tluassa]

btw did anyone else notice that he looks like Alan Rickman ? ^^

http://is.blick.ch/img/gen/I/x/HBIxBQWE_Pxgen_r_400x325.jpg

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7200000/Alan-Rickman-Ths-Sheriff-of-Nottingham-the-sheriff-of-nottingham-7272427-800-600.jpg

[LineDoggie]

http://www.merkur-online.de/bilder/2009/09/04/459413/1120990437-muammar-al-gaddafi.9.jpg

A picture says more than 1000 words ^^ This guy works the door at Trump plaza doesnt he?

[TheOpposition]

Gotta give it to him, while being a sick, brutal and despicable despot, he's also entertainingly eccentric.


isn't he though? lol:)

[Titani]

http://www.merkur-online.de/bilder/2009/09/04/459413/1120990437-muammar-al-gaddafi.9.jpg

A picture says more than 1000 words ^^
This looks like a General from a TV cartoon series... :cantbeli:

[ALBA660]

"Amid threats of criminal actions by local authorities"

and

"Officials in the affluent town, about 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City, had ordered the tent be taken down because it violated building and zoning law, authorities said"

I love the media.

[szr]

This guy works the door at Trump plaza doesnt he?Guy hails a mean taxi.

[Connaught Ranger]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20091001/tsc-oukoe-uk-security-gaddafi-011ccfa.html


Tiff over Gaddafi tent on Trump land ends

Thursday, October 1 10:08 pm
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The company that set up a huge tent for visiting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will plead guilty to zoning violations in the town of Bedford, New York, and pay a $1,000 fine, the town attorney said on Thursday. Belleweather Strategies LLC set up the tent for Gaddafi last week on property leased from developer Donald Trump but was ordered to dismantle it, under threat of legal action, by the affluent town 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City, said Bedford Town Attorney Joel Sachs.

Gaddafi, a famously eccentric figure known for pitching a large Bedouin tent on his trips abroad, was in New York where he addressed the U.N. General Assembly on September 23.

Belleweather, "who we believe is an agent for the Libyan government," agreed to plead guilty to four zoning violations and the $1,000 fine on Thursday in local court, Sachs said.

In return, the town will drop the related criminal charges it filed last week against Seven Springs LLC, part of the Trump Organisation that owns the 213-acre (86-hectare) estate.

"We're discontinuing litigation against Trump because they proved to our satisfaction that under the lease, the responsibilities for all permits and licenses lay with the tenant," Sachs said.

The Trump Organisation has denied that Trump knew about plans for the tent beforehand, he added.

Trump said last week that he had leased the property on a short-term basis to Middle Eastern partners.

Attempts to contact Belleweather were unsuccessful.

Authorities discovered workers setting up the tent and satellite dishes for the Libyan leader on September 22. The tent was dismantled, briefly reassembled and then permanently taken down over the course of the next two days.

Gaddafi did not stay in the tent during his U.N. trip.

It was his third attempt to pitch a tent in the region. Earlier plans to erect a tent in suburban New Jersey, where the Libyan Embassy owns property, were blocked by the U.S. government. A request to set up the tent in New York's Central Park also was turned down.

Gaddafi has come under criticism for giving a celebratory reception to Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people, and was recently freed from prison by Scottish authorities.

Bedford is home to such celebrities as homemaking expert Martha Stewart, fashion designer Ralph Lauren and actor Richard Gere who, with his actress wife Carey Lowell, owns a bed and breakfast there.

Trump once hoped to build a golf course on the estate but ran into opposition over its environmental impact and, more recently, has proposed building mansions on the land.

(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

Connaught Ranger.