<http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2008/02/is-colonel-g add.html> Did you know Col. Gaddafi a Frenchman?
<http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategor ized/2008/02/17/gaddafi.jpg> Gaddafi If Colonel Gaddafi was so eager to linger in Paris when he came last December, it was perhaps because the Libyan leader is half French. His father was an air force pilot from Corsica. That's him in the picture on the left. This extraordinary claim has surfaced over the past few days after a report by Bakchich <http://www.bakchich.info/> , a French investigative news site. They looked into a legend which has long circulated in Vezzani, <http://www.corsica.net/corsica/fr/regaler/costas/vezzani.htm> a village of 600 people in eastern Corsica. According to this, a Vezzani gendarme's son called Albert Preziosi was stationed in the Libyan desert with the Free French air force in 1941-42. He is said to have had an affair with a local woman at about the time that young Muammar would have been conceived. Preziosi was killed when his aeroplane was shot down over Russia in 1943. As a member of the famous Normandy-Niemen <http://www.fncv.com/biblio/conflits/1939-1945/normandie-niemen/risso_va.htm l> squadron, he has been celebrated as a hero in his home village ever since. An air force base near the town of Solenzara, is named after him. Not a shred of evidence exists to stand up the Gaddafi legend but the physical resemblance is so strong that it has persisted. I am Peter-Rhaina Gwokto and I approve this message. _____ Remember: "Even a small dog can piss on a tall building" Jim Hightower http://lakitgum.wordpress.com <http://lakitgum.wordpress.com/>
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