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Famously dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East" by former President Ronald Reagan, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has a reputation that has run the gamut from eccentric revolutionary to international pariah over his long career...
...Africans) worked together: the farmers allowed the herders' livestock on their land in exchange for milk and meat. But as good land became scarcer, the two sides began to fight over it. "You might laugh if I say that the main reason of this issue is a camel," said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at his failed attempt at Darfur peace talks in October 2007. "But Africa has thousands of such issues. They are about water, about grass...
...design everything around one person or one family or a couple of people, it's not going to work forever.' SEIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on the nation's plan to adopt a constitutional democracy at the end of his father's one-man rule...
...same ambivalence prevails in France's diplomatic overtures in the Middle East. Beyond the Libyan episode, which is full of savory anecdotes, lies the question of Syria. Damascus' role in the Middle East remains potentially important, even if it has decreased with time. Sarkozy's engagement with Syria is both daring and legitimate, but it is not clear that it makes peace in the Middle East any more likely...
...neither friendship nor enmity.' MUAMMAR GADDAFI, Libyan leader, describing relations with the U.S. before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's arrival. It is the highest-level U.S. visit in 50 years...