High Life | 2 August 2008

On board S/Y Bushido

Around 20 years or so ago, Udai Hussein, Saddam’s boy, had some of his heavies beat up a man who refused their master’s invitation to join his table in a Geneva nightclub. The Iraqi wanted to meet the man’s beautiful companion, hence the invite. Although arrested, Udai got away with it by claiming diplomatic immunity. The Swiss caved in, as they often do in such cases. As Plato pointed out, money talks. The only good thing anyone can say about Udai is that he died like a man, as did his brother. Last week a scumbag who goes by the name of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the Libyan head clown Muammar, was arrested by the Swiss police for beating up his servants. He spent two days in the cooler, was bailed, and then left the country. In response to his arrest, the head clown halted oil deliveries to Switzerland and barred Swiss ships from its ports by way of protest.