The Triple-D Brigade (aka Gaddafi's Amazonian Guard)

[natehale1971]

With the aparent fall of Gaddafi, I woner if the new government will keep the "The Triple-D Brigade" or not...

The Amazonian Guard (also "the Amazons") is an unofficial name given by Western journalists to an all-female elite cadre of bodyguards officially known as al-rāhibāt al-thawriyyāt "The Revolutionary Nuns", and sometimes also unofficially called "the Green Nuns," tasked with protecting the former leader of Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi.

The group was formed in the early 1980s, after Gaddafi's official resignation as Libyan head of state in favour of the title of "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya". This came as a surprise, as Gaddafi was known for his misogynistic outbursts during the 1970s, and in his Green Book he had made clear that he saw the role of women confined to housekeeping and motherhood.

Gaddafi reportedly employed a cadre of female bodyguards because he believed that an Arab gunman would have difficulty firing at women. But it has also been submitted that Gaddafi's female bodyguards are in reality just an aspect of the dictator's well-known eccentric showmanship and his fondness of surrounding himself with young women.

Candidates for the Amazonian Guard undergo extensive firearms and martial arts training at a special academy, must take an oath of chastity, and must be hand-picked by Gaddafi himself. Members of this bodyguard are allowed privileges such as dressing in Western-style fatigues and wearing makeup, or displaying Western hair styles and high heels.

Libyan sources claimed that in June 1998, one of Gaddafi's female bodyguards was killed and seven other wounded when Islamic fundamentalists in Libya ambushed the Colonel's motorcade. It was claimed that the dead guard, Aisha, was Gaddafi's favourite and threw herself across Gaddafi's body to stop the bullets.

In November 2006, as Gaddafi arrived at Abuja airport, Nigeria, with a 200-strong troop of heavily armed bodyguards, a diplomatic incident was caused as security officials tried to disarm them. Gaddafi furiously walked away, gesturing that he intended to cover the 40 km to the capital on foot, and could only be persuaded to yield after intervention by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who happened to be at the airport by chance.

[95th Rifleman]

I also thought they where more a personal harem than a bodyguard. Call me cynical but a guywith that much power, surrounded by beutiful "guards" and you are telling me he didn't take advantage of their devotion and loyalty?

[Legbreaker]

Chastity? What's that all about.
Smacks of a "harem" attitude to me...

[pmulcahy11b]

As far as men not being willing to shoot at women, my mother (yes, my mother) taught me an important lesson long ago: if the person attacking you is a girl, you still take them down. (Boy, that started a hellacious fight between my mother and stepmonster not long after they were married, and I followed her advice...)

[pmulcahy11b]

And think about this: just how well could women really fight with triple-D-sized breasts? I's think they'd a detriment to martial arts, shouldering a firearm, using a pistol with anything but a one-hand straight-arm-from-the-shoulder stance, they'd get in the way in the cockpit if they were trying to fly a helicopter, no body armor would fit, and just imagine the nightmare of them trying to lie prone...

[Schone23666]

If you don't mind an FNG adding his two cents to the thread...well, those "Triple D's" could have a use. If the guards happen to be on a boat out at sea and it gets sunk, they could use them as a pair of flotation devices.

[weswood]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

As far as men not being willing to shoot at women, my mother (yes, my mother) taught me an important lesson long ago: if the person attacking you is a girl, you still take them down. (Boy, that started a hellacious fight between my mother and stepmonster not long after they were married, and I followed her advice...)

I've always had that opinion. If you're intending to do me harm, expect me to defend myself to the best of my ability, regardless of what's between your legs.

[pmulcahy11b]

So...what would be the AV of a DDD-size breast be anyway? And does it differ between natural, silicone, or saline?

[headquarters]

Originally Posted by natehale1971

With the aparent fall of Gaddafi, I woner if the new government will keep the "The Triple-D Brigade" or not...
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no.

they were his personal guard,

[Schone23666]

I suppose getting back to the question that NateHale raised....has there been any info on the whereabouts of this guard? Are they still with Khaddafi? Or did they surrender along with the other units that were tasked to defend Tripoli when the rebels rolled in?

Personally I'd be a bit worried for them, the fact that they have two strikes already against them, with A: They were Khaddafi's guards, after all, something the rebels likely wont' appreciate. And B: most (not necessarily all) cultural regions of Africa and the Middle East regions don't look at assertive women in a rather favorable light...which is all rather ironic considering Khaddafi, at least for a long time was an advocate that a woman's place was squarely in the home and kitchen.