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Article: Lockerbie Aside, Libya's Gadhafi Seeks To Remake Image in West: Sees Israel in Arab League, He Tells Summit
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- May 4, 2001
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Perelman, Marc
Forward
05-04-2001
Lockerbie Aside, Libya's Gadhafi Seeks To Remake Image in West: Sees Israel
in Arab League, He Tells Summit
By MARC PERELMAN
FORWARD CORRESPONDENT
When Muammar Gadhafi asked that his remarks not be broadcast during the
Arab League summit in Amman at the end of March, the delegates thought the
eccentric, 59-year old colonel was just doing his usual shtick. But when he
told them to forget about Jerusalem -- "the hell with it, you solve it or
you don't, it's just a mosque and I can pray anywhere," he said, according
to reports -- and suggested that Israel might one day become a full member
of the Arab League, they could not believe their ears.
In the midst of an ...