Graffiti at Letten along the Limmat, this is somewhat a free zone for graffiti artist of varying quality but some of them really stand out from the crowd.
Once again Libya is on the headlines. One of Gaddafis Swiss hostages was liberated and could return home whereas the other was thrown into prison for another 4 months. The plot thickens as Gaddafi himself declares a jihad against Switzerland because of the minaret voting. Luckily for Switzerland Gaddafi doesn't have much more credibility among Islamic fundamentalist than he has in the rest of the world so there is still some hope that we will not get a band of suicide bombers on our necks. Even for a dictatorship it is amazing that that a person can remain in power that changes his mind as often as the journalist changes the spelling of his name (Khaddafi, Khadafy, Ghadafi, Gadafy in numerous variations). The only hope for the Swiss hostage seems to unexpectedly come from the person who put him in the situation in the first place, Ghaddafis son Hannibal. The conflict with Switzerland started as the Swiss police was intervening as Hannibal beat up his staff during a stay in Geneva. I guess that you can not count on the good heart of Hannibal but maybe he has got some more brains left than his aging father and therefore sees some advantages of not pissing off the entire international community.
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