MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Jason Lewis, The Telegraph, May 15, 2011
Smiling, in his swimming trunks, the sea calm and sparkling, the heir-apparent to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi relaxes with his minders and a key business associate whose firm gave more than £125,000 to the Conservatives in the last 18 months.
These extraordinary pictures, some taken by an unknown bikini-clad young woman – one of several scantily-dressed girls who joined the party – are a unique glimpse of the playboy lifestyle of the Western-educated son of the Libyan dictator....
Mr Salloum is a London-based lawyer and vice president of Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), a multinational which, before the recent uprising, was part of a major consortium revamping Tripoli airport and upgrading the terminal at Misurata, scene of some of the most intense fighting in recent days.
The international construction company, which also runs property and travel firms in Britain, was labelled a "complete disgrace" by a High Court judge for failing to comply with court orders freezing its assets......