A mansion formerly lived in by Muammar Qaddafi youngest son, killed in April, is in limbo in Munich, partly because his eccentric revamp of the interior could make the luxury property difficult to sell.
The long-time face of the Germany's Alice phone company, Vanessa Hessler, has been sacked after she defended the family of late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi and his son Mutassim, her former lover.
Germany’s advertising world could soon be one long-legged blonde-haired beauty fewer, as the model in the Alice phone company adverts could be sacked for remarks she made about her relationship to Muammar Qaddafi’s son Mutassim.
Germany was one of a number of Western nations that received intelligence from Libya under long-time leader Muammar Qaddafi. But a former official said Berlin never engaged in joint operations with Qaddafi's spy service.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle made a surprise trip to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Monday. The symbolic trip was kept secret for security reasons.
Victims of the 1986 La Belle Berlin disco bombing have called on the German government to use Muammar Qaddafi’s confiscated fortune to compensate those hurt and killed in his terrorist attacks.
German banks including the Bundesbank have frozen over €10 billion in Libyan assets following a European Union decision, news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported in its edition to be published Monday.
According to a newspaper report, the alleged secret training of Libyan security forces by German police could have been in return for Tripoli's help in a Philippine hostage crisis.
Germany's BND intelligence agency has denied any involvement in the affair involving the clandestine training of Libyan security services by German police.
