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  New Statesman - The colonel and his third way
Gaddafi's global prominence is altogether out of proportion to the size of the nation he leads.
Gaddafi is interested in the debates and policies involved in social democracy in Europe, which is the reason he has invited me. He likes the term "third way", because his own political philosophy, developed in the late 1960s, was a version of this idea.
Gaddafi's "conversion" may have been driven partly by the wish to escape sanctions, but I get the strong sense that it is authentic and that there is a lot of motive power behind it.
www.newstatesman.com /200608280032   (2047 words)

  
  MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI
Muammar al-Gaddafi oder Mu'ammar al-Qaddhafi (* September 1942), arabisch : معمر القذافي, ist seit 1969 der Staatschef von Libyen.
Gaddafi setzt sich auch stark für die arabische Einheit ein, Verschiedene Unionspläne mit Ägypten oder den Maghrebstaaten konnten aber nicht verwirklicht werden (z.B. gescheiterte Union mit Tunesien 1974).
Gaddafi werden Verbindungen mit dem internationalen Terrorismus nachgesagt.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/M/Muammar_al-Gaddafi   (346 words)

  
 Muammar al-Qaddafi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tensions between Libya and the West reached a peak during the Ronald Reagan administration, which tried to overthrow Qaddafi.
In 1984 a British policewoman, PC Yvonne Fletcher, was shot outside the Libyan Embassy in London, while policing a demonstration against Muammar al-Qaddafi.
A burst of machine-gun fire from within the building was always suspected of killing her, but the Libyan diplomats asserted their diplomatic immunity and were repatriated.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moammar_Al_Qadhafi   (2556 words)

  
 Muammar al-Gaddafi, Dictator of the Month November, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Gaddafi was the youngest child from a nomadic Bedouin peasant family in the desert region of Sirte.
Gaddafi and a small group of friends that he met in this school went on to form the core leadership of a militant revolutionary group that would eventually seize control of the country.
Gaddafi based his new regime on a blend of Arab nationalism, aspects of the welfare state and what Gaddafi termed "direct, popular democracy." He called this system "Islamic socialism" and while he permitted private control over small companies, the government controlled the larger ones.
www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Gaddafi/Nov2006GaddafiEN.htm   (2843 words)

  
 Gaddafi says only Islam a universal religion - Boston.com
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Friday that it was a mistake to believe that Christianity was a universal faith alongside Islam.
Gaddafi said on Friday that it was a mistake to believe that Christianity was a universal faith alongside Islam.
Gaddafi, who is seeking to expand his influence in Africa, said his arguments came from the Koran.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2007/03/30/gaddafi_says_only_islam_a_universal_religion   (430 words)

  
 Muammar al-Gaddafi information - Search.com
Reportedly, Gaddafi was a major financier of the "Black September Movement" which perpetrated the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, and was accused by the United States of being responsible for direct control of the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing that killed 3 people and wounded more than 200 others, of which a substantial number were U.S. servicemen.
Gaddafi has earned the praise of Nelson Mandela and others, and is always a prominent figure in various pan-African organizations, such as the Organization of African Unity.
Gaddafi's reportedly adopted daughter, Hanna, was killed in the 1986 USAF bombing raid.
www.search.com /reference/Muammar_al-Gaddafi   (3474 words)

  
 AM - Gaddafi welcomed as guest of the European Union
Colonel Gaddafi stepped off the plane dressed in red fez hat, and brown cloak and surrounded by his coterie of female body guards, who dressed in navy camouflage proceeded to run through the streets of Brussels keeping a wary eye on their boss.
MUAMMAR GADDAFI (translated): For this is a Libya which was in the lead of the liberation movement in the third world and in Africa, now has decided to lead the peace movement all over the world.
MUAMMAR GADDAFI (translated): Libya has the biggest reserve of gas and oil, so we need European companies, we need American companies to update and modernise the wells of gas and oil, and to upgrade them.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2004/s1096360.htm   (653 words)

  
 Gaddafi no terrorist to Paul Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Part of that history is that Gaddafi, the former terrorist, is most infamous for his role in blowing up a Pam Am Flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people, two of them Canadians.
Gaddafi’s vision calls for a "peoples’ power", a non state that is both non capitalist and non communist.
Gaddafi was at home, too when the leaders of France, Britain, Italy and Germany came to call this year.
www.torontofreepress.com /2004/cover122004.htm   (539 words)

  
 Muammar Gaddafi, Mu'Ammar Qathafi or Ghaddafi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (or Mu'Ammar Qathafi or even Ghaddafi - there is no single correct transliteration for Arabic words) came to power in a virtually bloodless coup in 1969, deposing King Idris who had ruled Libya since independence in 1951.
Gaddafi saw how foreign companies; foreign powers and a small minority of Libyan population were exploiting the oil riches.
Gaddafi also saw the American, French and British presence in Libya as part of their military attempt at keeping control of the area and in particularly to support Israel as a state created to keep the Middle East under their influence.
ewpnet.com /libya/gaddafi.htm   (484 words)

  
 Gaddafi grabs limelight: Africa: News: News24
At the start of his speech, Gaddafi noted that the summit proved to the world that the Arabs "are not racist" because it welcomed several foreign dignitaries who addressed the meeting.
Gaddafi, who until recently was ostracised by the West, defended Syria for "the numerous sacrifices it made in Lebanon" and said he was "furious" that Damascus was under international pressure to pull its troops out of Lebanon.
Gaddafi was the first leader to arrive on Monday in the Algerian capital to attend the summit, putting an end to speculation on his participation at the two-day gathering.
www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1680466,00.html   (499 words)

  
 Muammar Gaddafi: the wise investor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Muammar Gaddafi is known world-wide for being the leader of the Libyan nation, for his subversive ideologies, recently toned down in a bid to relieve the Libyan economy from UN and US sanctions, as well as for his shrewdness and intellect.
The complex web of shareholdings that Gaddafi has created and nurtured over the past 15 years shows how easy it is to evade embargoes and sanctions by moving money around the globe.
Gaddafi had been investing in Europe for several years when the US included Libya in its first list of terrorist countries, published in 1979.
www.businesstimes.com.mt /2001/1107/focus.html   (1820 words)

  
 Muammar Al Qadhafi
The world revolutionary leader, Col. Muammar Al Qadhafi, gave a wide ranging interview with reporters in January 2001.
The world revolutionary leader, Col. Muammar Al Qadhafi, exposed the role of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in creating and spreading HIV/AIDS throughout the world.
A comprehensive report on Muammar Al Qadhafi's speech at the African summit on HIV/AIDS, Abuja, Nigeria, April 2001.
www.qadhafi.org   (124 words)

  
 warriorsworld.net Forums: Muammar blasts bio terrorism
TUNIS (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi condemned the use of anthrax in the United States on Thursday as ``the worst form of terrorism'' and called for international action to tackle the ``very dangerous'' situation.
Gaddafi, who has often assailed the United States for its policies in the Middle East and elsewhere, urged world leaders to put aside their differences and come together to ``pay whatever the price needed to stop the danger.''
Gaddafi has said Washington has the right to seek revenge for the September 11 attacks and offered his condolences for the victims.
forums.warriorsworld.net /other/msgs/384.phtml   (369 words)

  
 Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Gaddafi is a rabble-rousing showman, who uses populist rhetoric to sell his idea of an Africa united against the evil West.
While Gaddafi would like all of Africa to believe that this is all in the name of unity and development, it is clearly a ploy to entrench his own power and boost his status.
Gaddafi has drawn in leaders of poor countries and dysfunctional states and those with creative interpretations of what democracy means.
www.sundaytimes.co.za /2002/07/14/insight/in01.asp   (1622 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | Is The Libya Agreement To Abandon Arms Programs For Security Or For Oil?
That Gaddafi should be there and that the very people to helped to plan the bombing were involved in the planning an working out of this deal to bring everyone together really does show what a farce and fraud our whole war on terrorism is.
But Gaddafi has been in the last few years been looking for a way back into the world community, and I think that the United States and Britain are right to at least go some way to meeting him, and to see what he has to offer.
Gaddafi is a chip off the old block who said that the Jews and the crusaders are trying to destroy the Muslims.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=03/12/22/1658258   (2769 words)

  
 Gaddafi: "mad dog" to "prize pet" - Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent ...
Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi is currently on a two-day visit to Brussels where he'll be meeting European Commission President Romano Prodi and Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
It's Mr Gaddafi's first trip in 15 years outside of Africa and the Middle East, and marks Libya's spectacular come back as a respected member of the international community after years of being regarded as a rogue state.
In Mr Gaddafi's eyes, the underlying objective of this policy was to keep the Arab world weak and divided so as to better exploit its immense oil resources.
www.radionetherlands.nl /currentaffairs/region/africa/lib040427.html   (796 words)

  
 Muammar Gaddafi, Mu'Ammar Qathafi or Ghaddafi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (or Mu'Ammar Qathafi or even Ghaddafi - there is no single correct transliteration for Arabic words) came to power in a virtually bloodless coup in 1969, deposing King Idris who had ruled Libya since independence in 1951.
Gaddafi saw how foreign companies; foreign powers and a small minority of Libyan population were exploiting the oil riches.
Gaddafi also saw the American, French and British presence in Libya as part of their military attempt at keeping control of the area and in particularly to support Israel as a state created to keep the Middle East under their influence.
www.ewpnet.com /libya/gaddafi.htm   (484 words)

  
 Singapore Soccer Community - Colonel Gaddafi to takeover Palace?
He told the Guardian: 'I have been told that Gaddafi and his son [Al-Saadi] are interested in acquiring Palace.' Jordan added that 'if they did, I would consider it'.
With Gaddafi and his son keen football enthusiasts, the sport has provided a bridge for the Libyan regime as it emerged from international isolation.
Gaddafi enjoyed a long friendship with Gianni Agnelli, head of the family which owns Juventus, for many years until the Italian died.
www.singaporesoccer.com /forum/printthread.php?t=9905   (371 words)

  
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi grabbed the spotlight at the Arab summit in Algiers on Wednesday, calling Israelis and Palestinians idiots for seeking separate states and saying the U.N. Security Council was a terrorist organization.
But Gaddafi went against the grain, preaching the minority view that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is for the two peoples to live together in a single state.
Gaddafi dismissed the argument that poverty is at the root of violence by militant Islamists and pinned the blame on "oppression, injustice, arrogance, insults, contempt and the humiliation of this (Arab) nation".
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3062417,00.html   (770 words)

  
 Free Abdelbaset Ali Mohamad al-Megrahi - Lawyers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I never had a lot of time for Muammar Gaddafi, even in those halcyon days when he was one of the few Third World leaders with enough guts to put two fingers up the nose of the West.
Gaddafi is a maverick with a sense of humour not normally perceived in Arab autocrats.
By the same token, Muammar Gaddafi, the West's new friend in the Arab world, is a nice guy, elected by periodic free and fair elections held under universal suffrage, with a clean human rights record, and a fantastic line in light crude oil - which by pure coincidence he can exchange for Western reconstruction contracts.
www.lawyertalk.org /Free_Abdelbaset_Ali_Mohamad_al-Megrahi-1420280-269-a.html   (2318 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Gaddafi: Migration 'inevitable'
Mr Gaddafi told ministers gathered for a conference on migration from Africa to the EU that resisting migration "is like rowing against the stream".
But Mr Gaddafi cast doubts on EU intentions in comments earlier on Wednesday, saying he suspected the promises were little more than propaganda.
One of the delegates in Tripoli, Richard Williams of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, told the BBC that the theoretical discussions about the root causes of migration could prove to be a distraction.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/6176720.stm   (564 words)

  
 Muammar al-Gaddafi
Muammar al-Gaddafi oder Mu'ammar al-Qaddhafi (* September 1942) arabisch: معمر القذافي ist seit 1969 der Staatschef von Libyen.
Gaddafi setzt sich auch stark für arabische Einheit ein Verschiedene Unionspläne mit Ägypten den Maghrebstaaten konnten aber nicht verwirklicht werden gescheiterte Union mit Tunesien 1974).
Gaddafis Verhältnis zum Westen hat in den letzten Jahren stark verbessert.
www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Muammar_al-Gaddafi.html   (326 words)

  
 Gulfnews: Gaddafi says fear drives world economic system
Libya's Muammar Gaddafi holds a copy of the Green Book during a debate on the sidelines of celebrations marking the 30-year anniversary of the declaration of the "jamahiriya," or "rule of the masses", in Sebha, Libya on Friday.
Gaddafi criticised the world financial system as a dictatorship based on fear but said Libya's only pragmatic choice after sanctions was to accept the unfair reality of world trade.
Gaddafi, shunned internationally for much of his rule because the West accused him of terrorism, improved his standing in 2003 when Libya accepted civil responsibility for the bombing of a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.
archive.gulfnews.com /articles/07/03/03/10108435.html   (643 words)

  
 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is the sole person responsible for the kidnapping of Imam Moussa SADR and his fellows
Sources say that the meeting with Qaddafi did indeed take place, but that it was difficult and acrimonious leading to the incarceration of the three visitors at the conclusion of the meeting.
Muammar al-Qaddafi - Muammar al-Qaddafi Libya's rogue president finally admitted guilt in Libya's role in 1988 Idris - Idris 1890–1983 king Libya (1951–69).
www.gaddafi.ir   (5648 words)

  
 Gaddafi no terrorist to Paul Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
If Gaddafi was a "mad dog" to Reagan, to Martin, he’s a "philosophical man with a sense of history".
Gaddafi’s vision calls for a "peoples’ power", a non state that is both non capitalist and non communist.
Gaddafi was at home, too when the leaders of France, Britain, Italy and Germany came to call this year.
www.canadafreepress.com /2004/cover122004.htm   (613 words)

  
 MI6 Verses Gaddafi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, was slightly Wounded last week in an armed attack that killed a female bodyguard, according to Libyans who arrived Alexandria last week.
Colonel Gaddafi's motorcade was ambushed on June 1 on a coastal road in eastern Libya as he was on his way to Egypt for an official visit, the travellers said.
Colonel Gaddafi was subject to another assassination attempt in 1989 during a visit by Syrian President Hafez el-Assad when a Muslim attacked him with a sword but was shot dead.
www.mideastnews.com /libya004.htm   (220 words)

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