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2004-04-27 Africa: North

Not all that Glitters is Gold: Gaddafi to West: Donât Force us Back to Bombing

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Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-04-27 11:17:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2004-04-27 11:19:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-04-27 11:30:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 PUter?

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-27 11:41:16 AM|| 2004-04-27 11:41:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-04-27 11:54:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-04-27 12:22:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-04-27 2:14:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-04-27 3:19:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-04-27 8:43:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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