Let's go to Libya!

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Whee! Still can't go to Cuba, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't Beirut supposed to have been the "Paris of the Middle East" at one point?

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Because they wanted to kill Bush as well?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I love this thread title.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I read a recent account of a guy motorcycling through Libya and he said it was amazing... Roman ruins everywhere, and the desert was breathtaking. And apparently they have the cheapest gas on the planet.

― andy, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That's Lebanon Huck.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Gaddafi really as evil as the American press/government hype him up to be? Or is he one of those foreign leaders who are branded as baddies for suspicious reasons, like not bowing down to American business interests? Not that i've heard anything like that in the newspapers, but I take everything they say with a grain of salt.

― Sengai, Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I would say that the Lockerbie bombing wasn't exactly him being all cuddly, for a start.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

If he *was* involved. I was pretty young when it happened, so I don't know the whole story. If it was his idea then yeah, that would make him a criminal pretty easily.

― Sengai, Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It's generally accepted that it was carried out by Libyan intelligence and presumably approved of by The Man Himself, though I admit to not following the specifics. Two officers were turned over to be tried by a Scottish court (in the Netherlands or something) but I'm guessing they're considered the patsies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Still can't go to Cuba, though.

Sure you can, just not directly.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

A repeat performance, from Qaddafi's Escape to Hell:

"The Blessed Herb and the Cursed Tree"

"Good news for the mentally disturbed, whether male or female. A herb has been discovered in the plains of Benghazi, and it is now sold at Hajj Hasan's shop. In a television interview I personally conducted with him, and which was seen by more than three million people, Hajj Hasan said that the herb was a cure for the mentally disturbed. As for those who have not yet become mentally disturbed, Hajj Hasan said nothing about them…There is also anti-dizziness medicine. If you should feel light-headed or dizzy for any reason, for example if you get dizzy after shopping for a shirt for your son that costs one dinar at the state-owned store, then finding it at a private store for 20 dinars, returning to the state-owned store to find it gone, then back to the private store only to find that its price had risen to 25 dinars while you were gone only for five minutes, then Hajj Hasan can assure you that he has the right medicine for you… "

― andy, Friday, 27 February 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure you can, just not directly.

That is in fact what I meant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this was going to be a Dirty Vicar holiday thread.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

a doctor of lybian descent forgot to show up at my 5 asides on sunday, I trusted him.

― see ar (see ar), Friday, 27 February 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

But it's still almost impossible for Americans to get tourist visas granted from the Libyan foreign ministry unless you join an expensive tour group. Believe me, I tried! There's lots to see in Libya, especially if you're into Roman ruins. There's Leptis Magna which is supposed to be the best preserved Roman city in the world along with Palmyra in Syria - with a huge-ass amphiteatre/circus. Oh, and Cyrene, an amazingly preserved Greek city. And Ghadhames, a cool looking desert labyrinthy mud walled oasis city. And then you can see Ghadafi's palace in Tripoli! I want to go.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 27 February 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay, I want to go too! Maybe I could couple that with my long-standing plan to go to Lebanon.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 27 February 2004 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this was going to be a Dirty Vicar holiday thread.

I am stung.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

At least you're not Sting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure you can, just not directly.
That is in fact what I meant.

Be the only dude on a dingy going south. Confuse the shit out of them...try to convince the refugees they are going the wrong way.

― Spinktor au de toilette (El Spinktor), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

do they still have burnt out Afrika Korps tanks lying around in Libya from the second world war? that would be cool.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Going to Libya for work shortly (9 days). To cost / make recommendations for the National Museum. Anyone been there? Tips / recommendations?

― paulhw, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 00:44 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/world/africa/migrants-africa-libya.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Libyan smugglers call them “burned,” a racial epithet sometimes used in the country for people whose skin color is black. And while many of the migrants who pass through Libya hoping to set sail for Italy are beaten and otherwise abused by smugglers, Mr. Drammeh believes his treatment was especially harsh because of his skin color.

Fellow Muslims — even children — refused to let him pray alongside them. “They think they’re better than us,” Mr. Drammeh, who is 18, said by phone from a refugee camp in Italy. “They say we’re created different from them.”

For Africans like Mr. Drammeh, few legal paths for migration exist, so tens of thousands use smugglers to help them cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. To pay off the fees, which can be as steep as $5,000, many migrants crossing the sea’s central route spend months working under harsh conditions and abuse in Libya, a country plagued by lawlessness and violence since the fall of the former dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 13:40 (eight years ago)

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