Galyna Kolotnytska, 38, has so far refused to talk publicly about the man she affectionately calls 'Papa,' but fellow passengers on a plane that brought her back to her native Ukraine on Sunday said she had made her feelings clear."Papa is good and Papa is eternal," she apparently told one passenger who spoke to local media afterwards. "Gaddafi will be victorious and in one and a half to two months I will return there."
| Gag me with a spoon, like... |
A leaked US diplomatic cable described the divorced nurse and mother of one as a "voluptuous blonde."
| A quick review of Google images (done only to confirm the veracity of the story, mind you) confirms the opinion of our hard-working diplomat. |
| How close? Noticias 24 sez (in Spanish) that Galyna and Mo have been, er, 'productive' in the horizontal tango. |
Col Gaddafi is married to a former Libyan nurse, his second wife, and has eight biological children and two adopted children.
Miss Kolotnytska is said to have won Col Gaddafi's trust by successfully treating one of his assistants who was badly wounded in a failed assassination attempt on the dictator.
The nurse's daughter, Tatyana, has been quoted as saying that her mother had been in Libya for nine years and was originally employed in a hospital before starting work for Col Gaddafi. "Other Ukrainian women also work for him as nurses. Mum is one of them," she said. "For some reason, he doesn't trust Libyan women with this matter."
| Can't imagine why... |
| "Whip me, beat me, call me Edna" |