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2003-10-07 Africa: North
Gaddafi separates from Arabs
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Posted by Murat 2003-10-07 4:32:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The man is a buffoon who could come out and say the exact opposite tomorrow. I don't trust wacky Muslims who wear purple robes and other bizarre get ups.

Posted by anonymous coward 2003-10-7 5:05:31 AM||   2003-10-7 5:05:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 All true. But if he is saying the right thing now, that should be rewarded, and encouraged.
Posted by Ben  2003-10-7 5:38:05 AM||   2003-10-7 5:38:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't agree Ben. He's had more than enough of a go. It's time he stood down.
Posted by different anonymous coward 2003-10-7 5:51:06 AM||   2003-10-7 5:51:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Uh, sure thing... If Khadaffy Duck has a moment of serendipity, of illumination, wherein he finally grasps that he is and has been a terrorist asshole and suddenly chooses to cease and desist, well then, we won't send any more F-111 PaveTack missions to Tripoli. This is ample reward and encouragement for his actions, thus far. If he wants candy and flowers, well he's gonna have to do a tad more than acknowledge his assholedness as a Arab tool. Methinks a knobshine is long overdue, and I hereby volunteer to represent the US in this important rapprochement by selecting which of his bodyguards should apply this important symbolic gesture to my, uh, person...
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Posted by .com 2003-10-7 6:02:57 AM||   2003-10-7 6:02:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 And when he loses an interest in being an African, maybe he can look into Mediterranean unity, perhaps a reborn Roman Empire? (With himself as Caesar, of course)
Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-10-7 6:12:02 AM||   2003-10-7 6:12:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Over an hour the Turkish Parliament will vote on the sending of troops, exactly at 15:00 (timezone GMT + 2).
Posted by Murat 2003-10-7 6:44:49 AM||   2003-10-7 6:44:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 To Libya?? Cut the guy (Khadafi) some slack, maybe he's about to croak.
Posted by Rafael 2003-10-7 9:02:22 AM||   2003-10-7 9:02:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "Libya has for too long endured the Arabs, for whom we have paid blood and money,"

This just in: Super Conducting Ribs Raise Puzzled Porker
Posted by Shipman 2003-10-7 9:56:46 AM||   2003-10-7 9:56:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Khaddafy's Fembots are pretty tough, they would kick arab ass
Posted by Frank G  2003-10-7 11:14:55 AM||   2003-10-7 11:14:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 This switch to an Africa-Central policy is just a recognition of the fact that Lybia can't possibly be implicated in every mess in the Arab world while simultaneously stirring the pot throughout Africa.

Should we encourage Africa to be lead by Lybia or South Africa? I am getting a headache.
Posted by Superhose  2003-10-7 11:56:24 AM||   2003-10-7 11:56:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm still amazed that Egypt hasn't absorbed Libya (oil, underpopulated). After all Arab on Arab wars are acceptable to the Arabs if you just throw out Arab Brotherhood and caliph into the propoganda.The UN could be used as an after-action excuse because of Libyan meddling in subSahara Africa. The Europeans could be bought off with oil contracts, and the US couldn't side with Libya.

Adding oil to Egypts population would make them the undisputed ruler of the Arab world.Certainly Libya would be a pushover compared to Israel.It's a no-brainer from what I can see. So why hasn't Egypt gone West?
Posted by Yank 2003-10-7 12:28:30 PM||   2003-10-7 12:28:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I read unsubstantiated reports that Egypt and Lybia shared a tunnel complex on their border where they were jointly developping WMD's. Probably could be tracked back to the Mossad.
Posted by Superhose  2003-10-7 12:48:11 PM||   2003-10-7 12:48:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 In times of Saddat, Khaddafi proposed the union between Egypt and Lybia. Egypt rejected it.
Posted by JFM  2003-10-7 2:51:06 PM||   2003-10-7 2:51:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 So now that Muammar thinks he's "African", will he speak something other than Arabic? ;)
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-7 4:17:28 PM||   2003-10-7 4:17:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Mo will just say Arabic is language that Africans like him adopted for usage, like English, French and Portugese. Anybody read his book?
Posted by OminousWhatever 2003-10-7 5:54:03 PM||   2003-10-7 5:54:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I wonder how many other countries will back out of the Arab League now? Probably zero, but we can always hope.
Posted by Charles  2003-10-7 7:13:04 PM||   2003-10-7 7:13:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 North Africa used to be a prosperous area in the classical age - it was the breadbasket of Rome.

Its civilization was mostly externally imposed, though. Carthage was a colony, and it was replaced by Romans, Greeks and (I believe) Vandals. Probably the Arabs, with their tribal society, had more in common with the Berbers and Libyans and similar tribes. But a tribal structure isn't the path to modern prosperity. "Pan-Arabism" is an extension of that tribal outlook. If Muammar views Libya as a nation he might be on the right track, though he shouldn't expect overnight results.
Posted by Fred  2003-10-7 8:15:08 PM||   2003-10-7 8:15:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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