Obama Shakes Hands With Libya’s Daffy Gaddafi….lovely, just lovely:/What? No kiss?
Controversial Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has shaken hands with President Obama at the G8 summit - breaking a long history of hostility between the two countries.mr Obama was the first US president Muammar Gaddafi has met after relations broke down between Libya and America over the African nation’s support for terrorist groups.The US and Libya resumed diplomatic ties in 2004 after a break lasting more than two decades.Meanwhile, in the final day of the summit of the world’s eight most powerful leaders in the Italian city L’Aquila, Africa is expected to take centre stage.G8 leaders are expected to pledge 9bn to the world’s poorest countries, as African presidents and prime ministers discuss the impact the global recession has had on food shortages in the region. The Libyan leader, who is at the G8 summit in his role as African Union chairman, is staying in a bedouin tent pitched on a football field in L’Aquila’s police barracks.Meeting Mr Obama is a major diplomatic step forward for Mr Gaddafi[…]