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The Model and Mutassim Gadhafi

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Posted on Nov 3, 2011
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Hessler’s mess: The German model made a faux pas that cost her a lucrative endorsement gig.

Given what we now know about Moammar Gadhafi’s obscene fortune, it’s not surprising to hear that his son, Mutassim—the one who died on the same day as his father—had lavish spending habits, or that he liked to spread the wealth while courting models. One runway-ready paramour of Gadhafi the younger, Dutch mannequin Talitha van Zon, even coaxed him to tell her how much he dropped: $2 million. A month.

Meanwhile, German model Vanessa Hessler managed to shock her way out of a lucrative advertising campaign with telecom giant Telefónica Germany by oversharing in an interview with the Italian magazine Diva e Donna. She called her four-year relationship with Mutassim a “very beautiful love story.” Right. But Hessler apparently crossed the line of corporate propriety when she described the Gadhafi clan as “normal people.” She also let fly with some ill-chosen words about the Libyan opposition while she was at it, thus ensuring she won’t be a poster girl over there anytime soon either.  —KA

The Daily Beast:

The model’s relationship with the dictator’s son flew largely under the radar—until she gave an interview to the Italian magazine Diva e Donna. “The Gaddafi family is not how they are being depicted, they are normal people,” she said. “I didn’t have contact with him since the uprising broke out, but our relationship was one of passion.” She called her four-year relationship with Mutassim a “very beautiful love story.” In the Italian interview, Hessler is described as “crying for Libya,” and she told the magazine that the rebels are “people who don’t know what they’re doing.”

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blogdog's avatar

By blogdog, November 7, 2011 at 9:22 am Link to this comment

yeah, the ‘tough love’ of Sharkozy, Cameruin and Obomber - menage à
trois
that would tickle the heart of the Marquise de Sade: “Destruction, hence,
like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.” AKA R2P

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By PatrickHenry, November 7, 2011 at 4:15 am Link to this comment

‘Love Story’ Libyan style.

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By blogdog, November 6, 2011 at 11:48 pm Link to this comment

of course not, to get R2P, NATO Intelligence resorted to lies about the Libyan Air
Force bombing peaceful demonstrators - Russia reported no such bombings were
picked up on their satellites - and, substantial reports on the ground confirm that
no ‘peaceful’ protests took place at all - NATO-armed insurgents started shooting
from day one - NATO Intelligence planned the whole thing

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By Hans Castorp, November 6, 2011 at 7:31 pm Link to this comment
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Does any of this justify the US/NATO war crimes committed against the people of Libya?

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By pgg804, November 6, 2011 at 6:01 pm Link to this comment

I was not referring to Sarkozy’s French or Hungarian background.

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By Gulam, November 6, 2011 at 2:23 pm Link to this comment

Thank you pgg804 for hitting on the use of the term “anti-Semite,” to mean
“against Jews,” when the vast majority of the world’s semites are Muslim or
Christian Arabs. Making that simple point is important, because it opens a door
on seeing European-American racism. The awfulness of the actions of the Nazis
was not that they killed Jews for racist reasons but they they rounded up and
killed anyone for racist reasons; turning around and supporting the Jews as
they do the same things to Arabs misses the point entirely, the point of every
other sermon and graduation speech delivered for the past half century. This
whole War on Terror is at heart anti-Semitism of the most basic and classic
sort, and it is being egged on by those people with the most experience in the
use of this technique.

In the last few weeks I have read the account of the period of the crusades in
Guizot, a nineteenth century French historian, and it is remarkable how similar
events can be though separated by a millennium; both times war grows out of a
simple and similar, banal and stupid twisting of religion to manipulate the
consciousness of the gentile herd. These European and American armies off on
their killing sprees are after all the heirs of those who sent Viking bands for
centuries plundering all the civilized worlds to the south and east, first cousins
to the Mongols, northern forest barbarians led by queens, hell bent on
conquest, again.

It is a powerful combination this Zionist directed use of northern barbarian
armies against the Semitic enemies of an Israel led by secular, European Jews,
an amazing power play indeed, but anyone who knows, even vaguely, their
history must know where this will end. Go read the Prophets of the Old
Testament and the Jewish writer Josephus and learn how it went two other
times a Jewish Jerusalem was destroyed. It was Jewish zealots who set the fire
that burned the temple; more deaths inside the city were inflicted by Jew
against Jew than were killed by a Roman legion determined and under orders to
preserve the city. One might say with some accuracy that the whole of the
Prophetic literature of Israel is made up of arguments against Israel’s depending
upon military power and foreign alliances instead of modest good behaviour,
trustworthiness, and faith.

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By drbhelthi, November 6, 2011 at 2:18 pm Link to this comment

The intelligence, objectivity, honesty and outspokenness of Hessler,
especially considering her youth, qualify her for much more than
modelling “Alice” for Telefonica.  Coupled with her physical beauty and social charm, her intellect qualifies her for much more than simply becoming the rich wife to a defective Frenchman such as Carla Bruni has become for Nicolas Sarkozy. 

Hopefully, subscribers to “Alice”, will switch en masse to companies
that do not punish employees for telling the truth, which often does not parallel either Israeli propaganda, or media propaganda.

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By drbhelthi, November 6, 2011 at 1:25 pm Link to this comment

Libya, with a live birth rate and literacy rate comparable to the
U.S., higher in specific areas.  Lybia, the only “Mid-East dictator”
who had shared oil profits with the citizenry and elevated the living
standard to the highest in Africa.  Muammar AL QHADDAFI, loved by
Libyans and respected by visitors - -  except the CIA, MOSSAD & MI6
who infiltrated and initiated another “false flag” type of artificial
rebellion, magnified by media disinformation. 
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_standard_of_living_in_libya

Led by Nicholas Sarkozy, under influence of the GHWBushSr entourage,
the NATO puppetry destroyed Muammar AL QHADDAFI and Libya.  Not
because AL QHADDAFI was evil.  Rather because he would not submit to
control by GHWBushSr, who framed him for the Lockerbie 747 explosion. 
GHWBushSr, whose entourage paid $4,000,000 each to witnesses to lie
at the “Lockerbie” trial.  Which they did, only to later recant their
testimony.  Which information, AL QHADDAFI was using to recoup a
refund for the Libya payout on the falsified Lockerbie incident. Which, the GHWBushSr entourage wanted to avoid at all costs.  Which he did. So far, anyway. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHVlU2jHT70&feature=related

Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sárközy de Nagybócsa shortened to Sarkozy, 2nd
generation Hungarian born in France, will turn out to be an insult to
France´s hitherto support of freedom and the “republic-type” of
government.  It is little wonder that he and his second wife
agreeably separated, after she reported to the French government on
the up-beat, actual life-style and living standard in Libya. 
Acquiring the wealthy model, Carla Bruni, as wife, whom “the media” has
used to distract from Sarkozy´s stupid decisions, has been a boon for
Sarkozy´s political career.  However, leading NATO to destroy Muammar
AL QHADDAFI and Libya, taking the lead from the GHWBushSr entourage,
is an insult that the French will not live down in this generation. 
- IF EVER. 

German leadership deserves congratulations for not being deceived
into cooperating in a repeat of Hitler-type, destructive activity.
German chancellor, Mrs. Angela Merkel must have a strong stomach, in
order to interact with Sarkozy as required, without throwing up on
him.

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By Craig Stock, November 6, 2011 at 1:39 am Link to this comment
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Send the ho-bag back to be lavish now!

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By pgg804, November 5, 2011 at 6:51 pm Link to this comment

I salute the lovely Vanessa for her honesty and speaking her mind.  She is not
the only woman that admired the Gadhafis.  Moammar Gadhafi’s Ukrainian
nurse who was referred to by one American admirer as his “voluptuous blonde”
spoke fondly of her boss.  To sum up her description of the leader would be
that he was a gentleman and she squashed any thoughts the American or
British press might like to suggest about having sexual relations with him.

Contrast his behavior with President Bill Clinton having sex with the 20 year old
Monica Lewinsky that worked for him or Governor Spitzer in New York who
frequented young prostitutes.  Imagine the hay day the western press would
have had with Gadhafi if he had done such things.  I can just imagine how the
same bigots that referred to Muslims and their “50 virgins” would dream up
similar slime.  Brought to us ironically by the country that spreads more
pornography around the world than anyone else and home of our celebrated
citizen Hugh Hefner.  Not that the truth ever got in the way of our press
spreading such slime.

Some of the German press have been criticizing the German government for not
supporting the NATO attack on Libya and the murder of the Gadhafi family.  I
saw this in the left leaning “Der Spiegel”.  This is because, just as in America,
you have to support the murder of Arabs to show you’re not “anti-semitic”. 

I think most of the animosity against Gadhafi originates from the Israeli corridor
because he supported the Palestinians and as a result he had poor relations
with Israel.  The exact same thing can be said about Saddam Hussein.  And not
surprisingly, both were murdered in gang land style, along with the rest of their
family.  In Hussein’s case, the muderers were the Americans, or the government
they installed.

I also don’t think its a coincidence that France was totally opposed to the
invasion of Iraq under its previous leaders (remember America’s “freedom fries”)
but under Sarkozy they led the attack on Libya.  I have Sarkozy’s ethnic
background in mind.

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By blogdog, November 5, 2011 at 1:34 am Link to this comment

RE: Hessler’s mess: The German model made a faux pas that cost her a
lucrative endorsement gig.

not for long - she’ll be back - most interesting is that she shows compassion and
talks of love - clearly beyond the comprehension of business interests under the
spell of NATO, whose Ministers and affiliate heads of state should be the names
on the ICC warrants for war crimes against humanity

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By Gulam, November 4, 2011 at 10:32 pm Link to this comment

ceti said:

“American liberals are showing their treacherous side again
by not looking critically at what is happening…”

Ah, yes the treachery of American liberals. Yes, I remember Lyndon Johnson.
The Democratic Party now sits at the feet of Netanyahu side by side with the
Republicans: they have gone along with the 11 September saga, extended
rendition and torture, and have advanced more trumped wars against the
patient Muslims. Don’t you think it is a little late to split hairs between the
behaviour of liberal and conservative American politicians? The left pretended
to be shocked while Democrats like Dean Rush were building the Vietnam War.

Think of professional wrestling as THE quintessential American sport, where the
combat is a ritual farce that nobody takes seriously but the real fools, where the
whole production is just spectacle. American wars no longer need to have
legitimate reasons. Anything will do really, because the important thing is to
provide a feeding frenzy for corporations, and a way up the career ladder for
each and every career military or aid apparatchik. When something as badly
done technically as 11 September was swallowed hook line and sinker by the
American herd, Americans definitely crossed the line into Pro Wrestling territory
from the Pro hockey or Pakistani cricket leagues in which they had been
playing, wherein there is still some semblance of the game being real.

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By Ralph Kramden, November 4, 2011 at 3:01 pm Link to this comment
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What a lousy report, what a lousy reporter. Gaddafi may have been an ogre, but he was very mild compared to the Saudis, Netanyahu, Mubarack, the Shah. This is just propaganda, they haven’t found a single bank account in Gaddafi’s name not even in Switszerland. All the billions mentioned were Libyan government accounts. Gadaffi did provide free health care, free education and Lybia had the highest standard of living in Africa. Let us see what these murderous traitors, NATO puppets provide for Lybia. Selling off their country to the West is step one. If his sons lead lavish life styles in Europe, isn’t that par for the course? That someone would get fired for having a love affair with a member of the Gaddafi family should shock us. Do having an affair with a member of Franco’s family or the Saudis or Netanyahu’s family, would that get you fired also?

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By truedigger3, November 4, 2011 at 8:10 am Link to this comment

It is expected to read such fabricated demonizing nonsense in NY Times or Washington Post but not in the “progressive” truthdig.
Shame on truthdig and the rest of the so called progressives for not meeting a war that they did not approve of, especially if it was waged by a fellow “progressive”.
To save the Libyan people from the “tyrant”, thousands of Libyans were killed, several cities destroyed and the country whole infrastructure was destroyed!.

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By myna lee johnstone, November 4, 2011 at 8:02 am Link to this comment
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normal people ,i should hope, are much more frugal.

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By thecrow, November 4, 2011 at 5:28 am Link to this comment

“they bask in the ghoulish actions and words of Western leaders and their gloating over the launch of the new colonial project”

At least Cheney didn’t cackle with delight when he bragged of the violent deaths of his designated bogeymen.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/humanitarian-disaster/

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By ceti, November 3, 2011 at 6:01 pm Link to this comment
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At least she has some compassion for the destruction wrought by NATO and its
Libyan rebel clients. The crimes are clear as day—whole cities destroyed,
thousands ethnically cleansed, tortured, and killed by the gangs that make up the
new regime. Whatever you may think of Mutassim, he fought until the end, and
was then murdered in custody, a war crime. American liberals are showing their
treacherous side again by not looking critically at what is happening in Libya or
Syria. Rather they bask in the ghoulish actions and words of Western leaders and
their gloating over the launch of the new colonial project.

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