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Translator collapsed during Khadafy's rambling diatribe
nypost.com ^ | Sept. 24, 2009 | CHUCK BENNETT and JEREMY OLSHAN

Posted on 09/24/2009 6:25:52 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

After struggling to turn Khadafy’s insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator’s personal interpreter got lost in translation.

"I just can’t take it any more," Khadafy’s interpreter shouted into the live microphone – in Arabic.

At that point, the U.N.’s Arabic section chief, Rasha Ajalyaqeen, took over and translated the final 20 minutes of the speech.

"His interpreter just collapsed – this is the first time I have seen this in 25 years," another U.N. Arabic interpreter told The Post.

Breaking with protocol, Khadafy brought his own interpreters from Tripoli for Wednesday’s speech rather than use one of the 25 Arabic translators supplied by the United Nations, staff interpreters said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: khadafy; libya; translator

1 posted on 09/24/2009 6:25:52 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I felt very ill when I went to the UN in third grade.

I knew then it was very evil.


2 posted on 09/24/2009 6:27:20 PM PDT by wastedyears (The best aid we could ever give Africa would be thousands of rifles to throw out their own dictators)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Lol!!! Wow!!!


3 posted on 09/24/2009 6:30:32 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Free ThinkerNY
the Libyan dictator’s personal interpreter

..maybe he got a bad batch of cow urine

4 posted on 09/24/2009 6:31:11 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Ajalyaqeen, who had to rescue the bealegured interpreter, was given the day off yesterday.

"Ten minutes with Khadafy earns you a lot of annual leave," one interpreter said.

Still laughing at this!

5 posted on 09/24/2009 6:32:35 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gotta be some good captions for that!


6 posted on 09/24/2009 6:33:05 PM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

ROFL


7 posted on 09/24/2009 6:33:23 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: wastedyears

Lol...I went in 8th grade and felt the exact same way. I remember the mean UN tour guide lady kept harping on about how “this wasn’t American territory, it was international blah blah blah.”


8 posted on 09/24/2009 6:34:14 PM PDT by SMCC1
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Of course he couldn't take it any more. Who could?
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9 posted on 09/24/2009 6:36:52 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

When I toured the UN with my school, Kurt Waldheim was the SecGen. They spoke of him as if he were practically a god. What a bunch of idiots fawning over a nazi.


10 posted on 09/24/2009 6:39:46 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Responsibility2nd

He looks like had a face put on.


11 posted on 09/24/2009 6:41:11 PM PDT by wastedyears (The best aid we could ever give Africa would be thousands of rifles to throw out their own dictators)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Tommy Lee Jones has a made-to-order role waiting for him when this yahoo is finally on the wrong side of the sand dune.......


12 posted on 09/24/2009 6:42:45 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: Responsibility2nd

In some of those pics he looks somewhat like Michael Savage.


13 posted on 09/24/2009 6:43:44 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins SONS.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Until I clicked the link I thought this was satire. Everything around this man is bizarre.


14 posted on 09/24/2009 6:44:10 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bet there is no re-hab in the Gadaffi/Khadafy/Daffy health care system for broken interpreters.


15 posted on 09/24/2009 6:46:19 PM PDT by Kozel89
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To: Viking2002

Tommy Lee Jones has a made-to-order role waiting for him when this yahoo is finally on the wrong side of the sand dune.......

&&&
Yeah, and Jones share his opinion of the USA.


16 posted on 09/24/2009 6:46:41 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why do these guys always look like they need a good scrub?


17 posted on 09/24/2009 6:47:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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To: SoldierDad

In some of those pics he looks somewhat like Michael Savage.

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In most of them, he looks like Michael JACKSON.

(Another FReeper said this: It looks like Khadafy did real good at the Michael Jackson rummage sale)


18 posted on 09/24/2009 6:47:10 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: All

Seems he has forgotten when we almost put Sidewinder up his ass. We didn’t hear from him for about 10 years after that .Perhaps we need to take aim again . He really look slike a mad man from central casting.
US OUT OF THE UN NOW!


19 posted on 09/24/2009 6:47:16 PM PDT by sonic109
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well, yes. If you photoshopped Jackson’s head in those pics the clothing would not appear out of place.


20 posted on 09/24/2009 6:48:27 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins SONS.)
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To: wastedyears
He looks like had a face put on.

Today my son said he looks like he got the excess flesh that Michael Jackson had removed from his face lifts, and they just stuck it on randomly

21 posted on 09/24/2009 6:52:04 PM PDT by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: Bigg Red
Would you expect any less from Algore's roommate? Too bad his acting is as good as his attitude is bad.


22 posted on 09/24/2009 6:52:17 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: sonic109
Remember, Reagan sent him that message in ‘86.

Reagan: "...after the bombing Qaddafi sought out the terrorists who had kidnapped Peter Kilburn, librarian at the American University in Beirut, and paid them a fortune to ransom him. Then Kilburn and two British hostages (apparently because of Britain’s cooperation with us during the raid) were murdered in cold blood....”

Qadaffi then upped contacts with the IRA to punish the Brits after our visit (F-111’s, Op El Dorado Canyon from the UK bases n’ all) the semtex, detonators and arms supplied to the IRA, some seized on the Eksund in late ‘87...

Lockerbie in ‘88...

UTA Flight 772 blown up over Niger in ‘89...

Etc etc...

I agree with the taking aim at him again.

Qadaffi has blood on his hands, and has NEVER been held accountable for his actions. Never.

23 posted on 09/24/2009 6:55:58 PM PDT by USF (I see you Jihad and raise you a Crusade)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s going to be a far more boring political scene when Big Mo passes on to his appointment with Gulbuth the Rampant. If God hadn’t created him, Mel Brooks would have had to.


24 posted on 09/24/2009 6:56:06 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Just get him to drive thru an automatic car wash in a convertible, with the top down. Being as Libya is pretty much in another century he probably wouldn’t realize what he was in for until it was to late.Oh and don’t forget to pay extra for the automatic hot turtle wax, that would probably be a big improvement.


25 posted on 09/24/2009 6:57:41 PM PDT by sanjoaquinvalley (Long time lady lurker.)
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To: USF

I understand that he actually hid under bed when the rocket hit


26 posted on 09/24/2009 6:58:15 PM PDT by sonic109
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To: sonic109

You said: “Seems he has forgotten when we almost put Sidewinder up his ass. We didn’t hear from him for about 10 years after that .Perhaps we need to take aim again . He really look slike a mad man from central casting.
US OUT OF THE UN NOW!”

I am wondering if maybe that Sidewinder actually did go up his ... and came out his face!


27 posted on 09/24/2009 6:58:16 PM PDT by Bravada (Wherever I Stand, I Stand With Israel!)
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To: Bravada

Good possibility man. One ugly bastard , inside and out.


28 posted on 09/24/2009 6:59:07 PM PDT by sonic109
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“His interpreter just collapsed – this is the first time I have seen this in 25 years,” another U.N. Arabic interpreter told The Post.

Collapsed? He’s lucky his head didn’t explode.


29 posted on 09/24/2009 7:00:16 PM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’d say it was funny, but the poor guy has probably already been fed through the chipper/shredder by now.


30 posted on 09/24/2009 7:00:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: sonic109

As it looks unlikely ‘Daffy will be brought to face justice, IMHO, he needs something along the lines of one of those special phone calls from Mossad.

Not a big “ring,” just enough to ensure serious injury and a slow agonizing death.


31 posted on 09/24/2009 7:05:22 PM PDT by USF (I see you Jihad and raise you a Crusade)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
stop it..

32 posted on 09/24/2009 7:10:55 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

33 posted on 09/24/2009 7:35:20 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (In defense of Liberty.........Radicalism may be necessary.)
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To: rawhide

Me too!

I think everyone was about to Collapse after listening to Daffy the Doorman..LOL..


34 posted on 09/24/2009 7:39:57 PM PDT by TaraP (*Religion* is Man trying to reach GOD.Christ is GOD reaching out to Man.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That guy looks like Keith Richards after a 2 week binge of having hookers blow meth up his @ss.


35 posted on 09/24/2009 7:41:40 PM PDT by ponygirl (Racist my Asstroturf)
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To: ponygirl
TONY MONTANA?
36 posted on 09/24/2009 7:45:34 PM PDT by TaraP (*Religion* is Man trying to reach GOD.Christ is GOD reaching out to Man.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

37 posted on 09/24/2009 7:47:43 PM PDT by FTJM
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To: FTJM

He looks like a Chef at Tito’s Tacos in that photo!


38 posted on 09/24/2009 7:49:39 PM PDT by TaraP (*Religion* is Man trying to reach GOD.Christ is GOD reaching out to Man.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Qadaffy vs. Jim Jones, hmmmm....


39 posted on 09/24/2009 7:58:28 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That looks like Superfly Jimmy Snuka from the WWE.


40 posted on 09/24/2009 8:37:57 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: TaraP

Kinda reminds me of Gene Simmons in a weird sort of way.

41 posted on 09/25/2009 4:38:12 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Youtube video of the speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67vSQN3Ga1s&feature=popular


42 posted on 09/25/2009 4:39:33 PM PDT by rdl6989
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