Libya’s Cool Now, Man
Charles Johnson
Sun Sep 1, 2002 at 8:05 am PDT • Views: 145
Daffy dictator Moammar Gadhafi (alternate spelling #27), positioning himself as the leader of a pan-African union, says Libya is no longer a rogue state.
His speech marked the anniversary of the 1969 coup in which he took power.
“In the old days, they called us a rogue state. They were right in accusing us of that. In the old days, we had a revolutionary behavior … We acted like an independent state and we put up with the consequences of our action,” he said to a crowd of several thousand in the south Libyan city of Sibha.
He then disclosed that Libya had detained some Islamic fundamentalists and former fighters from Afghanistan who were thought to be connected to al-Qaida, the group blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Gadhafi had previously said he would cooperate with the war on terrorism, but he had not spoken of detaining people linked to al-Qaida.
He said the detainees — he did not say how many there were — would be treated the same way the United States treats its terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba.
He’s just asking for a lawsuit by Ramsey Clark with that kind of talk.
Frank says: