World condemns Gaddafis call for jihad against Switzerland

By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent Published: 3:17PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

Colonel Gaddafi"s son Hannibal has been concerned in a series of purported incidents with the military in the last couple of years Photo: GETTY

Col Gaddafi took a long-running and personal argument with the historically neutral European nation to new heights with a debate in that he pounded the anathema on new minarets on mosques authorized by a Swiss referendum last year.

"Those who fall short God"s mosques merit to be pounded by jihad, and if Switzerland was on the borders, we would quarrel it," he said. "Jihad opposite Switzerland, opposite Zionism, opposite unfamiliar charge is not terrorism."

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He called for a protest of Switzerland by the Islamic world. "Any Muslim in any piece of the universe who functions with Switzerland is an apostate, is opposite Mohammad, God and the Koran," he said.

"The rank and file of Muslims contingency go to all airports in the Islamic universe and forestall any Swiss craft landing, to all harbours and forestall any Swiss ships docking, check all shops and markets to stop any Swiss products being sold."

Col Gaddafi"s typically individualist row with Switzerland, that began when one of his sons was arrested along with his mother since of allegations of abuse by dual members of his done at home staff, has come as a blow to horse opera powers.

They thought that they had managed to tame the Libyan personality after he willingly gave up a simple chief weapons programme in 2003 and concluded a remuneration understanding over the Lockerbie bombing.

Yesterday, both the European Union and the United Nations strike out at his speech.

"If these reports are correct, they come at an hapless moment," a orator for Baroness Ashton, the EU"s unfamiliar process representative, said.

She pronounced the EU was perplexing to come to terms a allotment of the disagreements in between Libya and Switzerland, even though it is not an EU member.

Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the director-general of the United Nations, said: "I hold that such declarations on the piece of the head of state are unfit in general relations." Mr Ordzhonikidze is formed at the UN"s European domicile in Geneva.

The Swiss expelled Hannibal Gaddafi before long after his strange detain in 2008 at a Geneva road house and apologised. But this was not sufficient to forestall a mad reply by Libya.

Two Swiss businessmen were arrested and indicted of visa violations, oil reserve were cut and billions of dollars private from Swiss bank accounts.

The recover of one of the businessmen progressing this month had led the Swiss to hold that the predicament was over.

Switzerland itself done no evident criticism on the speech.