David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
deansgate wrote:
> Dave Frightens Me wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:10:28 GMT, "a.spencer3"
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Just a warning, since Med cruises can involve both Europe & Africa:
> > >
> > >Some Brit friends on a Med cruise have just emailed me.
> > >Yesterday they stopped in Tripoli and were disembarking for tours.
> > >All USA citizens, specifically, were stopped from landing.
> > >
> > >I thought Gadafi was trying to weasel his way back into civilisation ?
> >
> > I had an interesting conversation with a man tonight about Tripoli. He
> > goes there regularly on business, and said he found it amazingly
> > 'free'. He said you saw women in short skirts, and the veil was only
> > worn for practical reasons (apparently sand storms and strong winds
> > are common).
>
> I would wait for an actual news report confirming this actually, and
> exactly _why_. It strikes me as very surprising. It's possible for
> Americans to get a tourist visa for Libya. Many US citizens are barred
> entry to EU countries too annually (as happens vice versa) but that's
> nothing to do with a general policy banning them.
>From what I've read Libya's granting of visas to US tourists has been
somewhat capricious. IIRC there was an incident sometime this past
year where a US tour company had booked a buncha Yanks on a tour of
Libya, everything was on the up - and - up until the Libyans
arbitrarily refused to grant the group visas...go figure.
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Best
Greg
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