Word: jalloud
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Though Libya is nowhere near achieving that goal, it has not been for lack of trying. Even before he signed the nonproliferation treaty in 1975, Gaddafi began hatching proposals. In 1970 he sent a top aide, Abdul Salam Jalloud, to Peking in an attempt to buy an atom bomb. China turned him down. Beginning in 1973 the colonel helped bankroll part of Pakistan's bombmaking effort, and even before he was rebuffed several years later by President Mohammed Zia ul- Haq, he had started to make overtures to Pakistan's archenemy, India. When New Delhi restricted the extent of nuclear...
...unpredictability. "It's almost impossible to evaluate the man in rational terms," says a British diplomat. "With the coming of dawn, he may take off on a completely new tack." He is a man of mercury, quick to anger. Once when his second in command, Abdul Salam Jalloud, made a mistake, Gaddafi had Jalloud's hair shaved off. He often carries a side arm; more than once, he has lost patience and pulled out his gun, aiming it at the person who offended...