Libyan Leader's Tent Continues To Cause Controversy

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Sep 23rd 2009 at 2:01PM

Today Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Meanwhile his lodgings while in the U.S. continue to draw controversy. First he tried to stay at an estate in New Jersey, then he planned to say at the Pierre in New York. The latest twist in this saga had Kadhafi erecting a tent at a Bedford, New York home owned by Donald Trump's estate. A tent was erected but yesterday town authorities ordered workers to stop working on the tent because of the lack of a work permit. Trump's office has said, according to Bloomberg, that the property was leased "on a short-term basis to Middle Eastern partners who may or may not have a relationship" with Kadhafi.

Had Kadhafi just stayed inside a home he probably would not have caused quite so much of an uproar but he prefers to stay in a large Bedouin tent when he travels. His tent is luxuriously outfitted and decorated with lavish fabrics and wired for electricity, heat and satellite television (a picture can be seen at this article in the Daily Mail). Tents like this generally run into five figures to buy. He has taken his tent to Cairo, Rome, Paris and other cities in the past. He uses the tent to entertain guests and holding meetings, perhaps as a way of establishing a home field advantage no matter where he is.

Tags: kadhafi, libya, qaddafi

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rcainmtg Sep 24th 2009 11:24AM

Have any of the Trump properties been target of protests/pickets as a result of this booking faux pas?

krfisk Sep 27th 2009 9:18AM

should be arresting this s.o.b.for his role in the lockerbie bombings...boycott all of donald trump properties or casinos..the US should be closing down the united nations of terrorists..what has happened to our government and our country..look out the worst is yet to come...