| | Bits of News - Colonel Bogey: A Gadafi Profile |
 | | The Colonel's taste for women in uniform was also in evidence in 2002, when Libya hosted the first Miss Net World beauty pageant. |
 | | There are also insights on everything from childcare ("Nurseries are similar to poultry farms in which chicks are crammed after they are hatched") to the limits of representative democracy ("It is invalid and undemocratic for a committee or a parliament to be entitled to draft the law for the society"). |
 | | The journalist Robert Fisk relates how, during one such event in Cairo, Gadafi arrived in a golden robe escorted by his Amazons and greeted the host, President Mubarak, before he "promptly pretended to confuse a public lavatory with the door of the conference chamber." Mubarak's smile was unforgettably pained. |
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