Ghaddafi's Son Attends Haider's Funeral
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
AUSTRIA'S POLITICAL establishment joined 30,000 mourners in Klagenfurt on Saturday to bid farewell to far-right populist Jörg Haider in a virtual state funeral, laden with pious pomp.
Haider (58), governor of the province of Carinthia for almost two decades, was killed a week earlier after losing control of his car while driving drunk at twice the speed limit.
Haider's widow, Claudia, flanked by daughters Cornelia and Ulrike, thanked mourners packed into the old town's narrow streets for their support.
"It gives comfort on the long, stony road of mourning," she said.
Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer said during the funeral, broadcast live on national television, that Haider was an "extraordinary man who left no one cold, positively or negatively".
Apart from Saif Gadafy, son of the Libyan leader, a close friend of Haider, no prominent foreign guests attended the funeral.
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