JenniWren57 Jennifer v Huyssteen
@AlArabiya_Eng more to the point...where is HUDA????? I am sure the FF of Benghazi would love to have a word or two with her...
There is no trace of Qaddafi’s female bodyguards, once estimated to be around 400 beautiful women.
The Libyan leader first began to appear with his female guards in the 1990s; his previous guards were from the former East Germany.
According to media reports, in the past 20 years Qaddafi employed as many as 400 “Revolutionary Nuns,” as the female guards came to be known. They were also referred to as “The Amazonians.”
The guards were reported to have taken a vow of chastity before beginning the job of guarding the Libyan leader; in addition, they took a pledge to sacrifice their lives to protect him. The guards also underwent extensive firearm and martial arts training in the Women’s Police Academy in Tripoli.
Qaddafi required that his guards be virgins; he renamed them all after his only daughter, Aisha.
Qaddafi’s female guards always appeared by his side immaculately groomed and dressed in high heels their long hair left loose.
During Qaddafi’s visit to Italy in 2009, photographs appeared of one of his guards, an elegantly dressed woman, who seemed to catch Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s eye – so much so that he breached protocol and went to shake hands with the guard.
Berlusconi’s handshake was met with a rather harsh glare from the guard, a fact not lost on the media.
The loyalty that Qaddafi’s guards showed the leader is well known. In 1988, the head of Qaddafi’s guards was killed and seven others wounded when a convoy was attacked, allegedly by Islamic fundamentalists. Then, a female guard threw herself on Qaddafi to save him and died from bullet wounds.
In 2003, during an Arab summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egyptian security prevented Qaddafi’s guards from entering the hotel with the Libyan leader, which resulted in a scuffle between the ladies and security officials.
