Libyan tyrant Colonel Gaddafi blamed his farting on camels dwelling within the desert
Veteran telly newsman Jeremy Bowen said he quizzed him about his flatulence but a translator told him that was ‘impossible’ and animals instead
Colonel Gaddafi blamed his flatulence on camels(Image: Getty Images)
Libyan tyrant Colonel Muammer Gaddafi blamed his farting on camels. Veteran telly newsman Jeremy Bowen said he quizzed him about his flatulence.
It followed his BBC colleague John Simpson’s claim that the dictator had farted through an interview.
Jeremy, 66, said Gaddafi’s translator told him that was impossible, because “in the desert that is the rudest thing… it would have been the camels”.
Gaddafi had ruled Libya with an iron fist from 1969 until he was overthrown and killed by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War.
Jeremy admitted he had also offended Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s advisers by interviewing him in a polo-neck jumper.
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The war correspondent said he hadn’t expected the Assad regime to fall so quickly, so hadn’t brought a suit, and added: “I thought there’d be a war!”
In a wide-ranging interview, Jeremy spoke about a near-death experience in 2000 in Lebanon when an Israeli tank shell killed his fixer, Abed Takkoush.
The reporter and his cameraman were 100 metres away and Israeli soldiers were overheard on radio saying they planned to kill them too with a machine gun.
Jeremy said: “I don’t mind talking about it, it’s a way of remembering him. I hate dangerous places now.
“It makes me nervous.”
Jeremy’s Gaddafi tale comes days after it was revealed that disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor tried to set up a meeting between notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the murderous dictator.
New emails in the latest tranche of documents released by the US Department of Justice show the sex trafficker tried to arrange a meeting with Gaddafi or his associates via the then-Prince.
They suggest plans would have seen Epstein travel to Tripoli just a year before Gaddafi, 69, was captured and killed by rebel fighters participating in the Arab Spring.
The emails, uncovered by Channel 4 News, show correspondence in which Epstein appears to say that people who have met Gaddafi “have asked me if I want to meet him as he does not know where to put his money”.
