Typical Italy.
As part of this "social exchange" only few months ago Geddafi was in Rome and gave an apparently delirious speech on his own interpretation of Islam, for which they hired 500 young women to come listen, later giving interviews to the Italian press about how impressed they were with the speech.
And this "pact", while it has been abandoned by certain high officials in the media ever since the current crisis began, was never officially cancelled.
Not only that, the Italian government also rendered similar services to Ben Ali in Tunisia, who first helped by then prime minister Craxi later received Craxi, by then running from the law in Italy, who remained in Tunisia until his death.
