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| Gadhafi's Son Says Libya Forsakes Mideast |
| 2004-10-13 |
| The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi proposed a new plan for general reforms in which he said his country will move away from the Middle East and reduce spending on the military. "Libya has decided to separate from the so-called Middle East," Seif al-Islam Gadhafi said at the opening session of a Tripoli conference for business leaders from Western countries. Gadhafi said he is proposing a new reform plan that will include major cuts in military expenditure. "There is no need anymore to continue spending on the military field," he said. "Instead, we will direct such spending to development." The conference opened a day after the European Union ended 12 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo to reward the North African country for giving up efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction. Gadhafi said the decision heralded "a new era for the Libyan-Western relationship." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 [Qaddafi] actually passed commands that forced Libyan men to treat their women with respect and equality. Also had great respect for women's fashions. A true pioneer in the field of cross-dressing. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-13 2:28:59 PM |
| #8 Yeah, if it wasn't for that little Lockerbie thing, he mighta got, like, his own sitcomn or something, right, kid? Real barrel of laughs Mo was back in the day. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-13 2:28:08 PM |
| #7 a real humanitarian! Spemble brains dissembles again! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-13 2:25:51 PM |
| #6 Hey. The Old Ghadaffi wasn't the evildoer that everyone thought he was. He actually passed commands that forced Libyan men to treat their women with respect and equality. Kind of cool. |
| Posted by: Spemble Spains3686 2004-10-13 2:21:17 PM |
| #5 "Next EU candidate to the dock, please." |
| Posted by: Gravirt Slutle2777 2004-10-13 2:18:44 PM |
| #4 Nice choice they have. Be part of the middle east, or Africa. Not a choice I'd want to make. Poor little LIbya with all their oil, hoping Egypt and Algeria don't notice them and gobble them up. If I was Gadhafi I'd keep the anti Middle East Talk down and work on a very loose alliance with all of the North African Arab nations (Chad, Sudan, Niger, Mauritania, Morroco, etc) and call i the United Arab Republic. Even if the alliance is on paper only, and composed primarily of losers, it would give them all prestige. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2004-10-13 11:22:32 AM |
| #3 Do we have any photos of his body guards? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-13 9:07:59 AM |
| #2 Actually jr. appears to have a brain and some common sense. He was the one who pushed papa to join the world of reality in the first place. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-10-13 9:01:23 AM |
| #1 i'd feel better about this if his name didn't translate to "sword of islam" |
| Posted by: SON OF TOLUI 2004-10-13 12:08:06 AM |