Gadhafi’S Newest Rocket

Wed., Sept. 8, 1999

Wondering what Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi was up to during all those years of sanctions? He was busy inventing a car that would make James Bond green with envy over its high-tech features. Gadhafi’s “Saroukh el-Jamahiriya,” or Libya’s rocket, is the world’s safest car, meant to highlight the Libyan leader’s concern for humanity and human life. Al-Dukali Al-Mugaryef, general commissioner of the Libyan Arab Domestic Investment Company, said. “The invention of the safest car in the world is proof that the revolution is built on the happiness of man,” al-Mugaryef said. The narrow, rocket-shaped, five-passenger car has air bags that deploy all around the interior in case of an accident, a collapsible bumper and a system of anti-roll rocker panels that self-activate when necessary to protect the passengers.

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