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SEIF AL-ISLAM AL-GADDAFI, son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in an interview with TIME, on whether Libya will participate in the U.S.-led war on terrorism...
Friendship's Limits Muammar Gaddafi might have morphed from a terror-backing revolutionary into a Western ally, but he's still not shy about airing his disagreements. While European and American business executives packed Tripoli hotels last week scouting for new deals in the oil-rich nation, Libya's leader made it clear that he was not a supporter of Washington's strategy in Iraq. "The best thing [the U.S. ] could do for the Iraqis and the Americans is to withdraw," Gaddafi told TIME. Gaddafi's second son, Seif al Islam, widely perceived as his father's likely political heir...
...flight, not to Europe, but back home. "Our embassies told us that Libya doesn't want us here," said 32-year-old Ati Moses from Ghana, squatting on his locked suitcase. "They will arrest us and deport us if we don't leave." Berlusconi joined Libya's ruler Muammar Gaddafi in Zuwarah last week to attend the opening of a natural-gas pipeline linking the two countries, a joint project by the Italian oil company ENI and Libya's state oil producer NOC. Both men praised the prospect of Libyan natural gas flowing to Italy, but it could prove difficult...
...just 101 votes to 99. Gross replaced fellow Social Democrat Vladimír Spidla, who resigned in June following the party's poor performance in European elections. Gross, at 34, is Europe 's youngest premier. Stemming the Tide LIBYA Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for talks on ways to stop illegal immigrants from Africa using Libya as a launch pad to reach Italy . A day earlier, a boat believed to have departed from Libya and carrying 275 migrants was intercepted off the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa . Polio Resurgent AFRICA The World...
...clashing charges are the latest example of the two countries' long grudge match. In his radical heyday, Gaddafi railed against the pro-U.S. Saudi monarchy, and Libyan officials claim that the Saudis are funding Libyan opposition groups. A Libyan source close to Gaddafi says, "Those groups tried to kill the leader twice," and adds that Mohamed Ismael, a Libyan in Saudi custody as a suspect in the alleged plot against Abdullah, was merely financing Saudi reformers. The source says the accusations are part of a Saudi smear campaign against Saudi dissidents. For their part, fumes a well-placed Saudi...