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8 July 2002
Manzini, Swaziland - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, returning from an African
summit by motorcade, swept through tiny Swaziland on Friday cutting out mobile
phones as he passed - apparently because of jamming devices.
Escorted by dozens of armoured cars and his bevy of female bodyguards, Gaddafi
was greeted by wildly enthusiastic crowds. But mobile phone users were less
ecstatic when their handsets went dead as the 400-strong convoy passed.
The Swazi kingdom's only cellular phone provider, MTN-Swaziland, said the phone
outages were unexplained technical faults, but a source at the company said the
most likely cause was jamming equipment used by Gaddafi's security personnel.
Gaddafi, who has ruled oil-rich Libya with an iron fist since he took power in a
1969 coup, periodically halted his motorcade to visit rural homesteads in the
impoverished country, locked between Mozambique and South Africa.
Swazis were alerted to his imminent arrival by helicopters and advance police
units that preceded the motorcade and closed roads.
The Libyan leader is visiting Swaziland on a roadshow due to take him through
Mozambique and Malawi after he helped launch a new African Union at the summit
in South Africa this week.
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