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Africa: North
Not all that Glitters is Gold: Gaddafi to West: Don’t Force us Back to Bombing
2004-04-27
EFL
Hat tip to LittleGreenFootballs
Libyan leader MadHatter Muammar Gaddafi appealed to the West Tuesday to take up Libya’s offer of peace and not force his country back to its old days of sponsoring and harboring what he called "freedom fighters."
That'd be a real bad move.
"We do hope that we shall not be obliged or forced one day to go back to those days when we bomb our cars or put explosive belts around our beds and around our women so that we will not be searched and not be harassed in our bedrooms and in our homes, as it is taking place now in Iraq and in Palestine."
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#8  Exactly right Ruprecht--this is a shot across the bow at Brussels
Posted by: Not Mike Moore   2004-04-27 8:43:02 PM  

#7  Gaddafi is just playing to his audience. He plays nice with the US, but realizes the Europeans can be threatened easily enough so he talks threatening. Nothing concrete so he can backtrack.

Isn't France still threatening to hold the sanctions on Libya if Qaddafi doesn't fork over more money for that French plane the Libyans downed?
Posted by: ruprecht   2004-04-27 3:19:45 PM  

#6  Quadaffi probably expected iran and syria to be overrun at this point. Our tolerance in Iraq ties down troops there is taken as weakness, and he is feeling a little too secure.

Posted by: flash91   2004-04-27 2:14:40 PM  

#5  This isn't any surprise. The unwillingness to use decisive force to deal with Fallujah and al-Sadr is being seen as wobbling, and people like Quedaffy are noticing.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-04-27 12:22:50 PM  

#4  Mumu still has a natural inclination to extort the West. Didn't he have a daughter, at one time?
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-04-27 11:54:21 AM  

#3  PUter?
Posted by: Shipman   2004-04-27 11:41:16 AM  

#2  If you had said, "All that glitters is not gold"
you would have been spot on.
You won't go wrong if you assume that most Arabs are base metal.
Posted by: tipper   2004-04-27 11:30:18 AM  

#1  Okay. I am an assclown. I meant to write: Not All that glitters is gold.
Posted by: Dragon Fly   2004-04-27 11:19:47 AM  

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