Gaddafi Urges Obama To Open Dialogue With Bin Laden and Taliban

“Terrorism is a dwarf not a giant. Osama bin Laden is a person who can be given a chance to reform,” Mr Gaddafi said through an interpreter.

He gave no indication that he had any contact with bin Laden or wanted to act as a go-between.

“Maybe we can have a dialogue with him and find out the reason that led him in this direction,” he added.

Moreover, he said the Taliban, which the United States helped oust in Afghanistan, was “not as it has been portrayed” and Washington should review its views on that group too.

In a speech outlining his views on how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mr Gaddafi called for the creation of one state rather than two nations living side by side.

“We can call it Isratine,” he said.

If Jews did not accept a one-state solution, he said they could move to Hawaii, Alaska or an island in the Pacific.

“They could live peacefully in an isolated setting,” he said.