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...modern world of globalization, Wahid has an internal compass that spins wildly in all directions. He knows the Koran by heart and can also discuss German soccer players with Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. He tells risque jokes to his "friend" Bill Clinton and then pays court to Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi. Of more concern, he is fickle in matters of state, saying he would fire his military chief, General Wiranto, relenting and then actually firing him, all in the space of 24 hours...
...Sankoh has released are often contradictory. He is reported variously to have worked as a wedding and portrait photographer and as a cameraman for the state TV service, spending time in jail for anti-government activities before finding himself, in 1991, a guest of regional mischief-maker Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi. The Libyan leader persuaded Sankoh and former hairdresser and nightclub dancer Sam "General Mosquito" Bockarie to form the Revolutionary United Front and fight Sierra Leone's government. They trained alongside Liberia's Charles Taylor, who went on to litter his own road to his country's presidency with many...
...Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi finally agreed last year to hand the men over, in a bid to break out of the international isolation and U.N. sanctions imposed on his country as a result of the case. "He held off for years out of fear that he would be personally implicated in the case," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Now he's cut these people loose and is more concerned about getting Libya back on line than with what happens to these individuals. And he's obviously encouraged by signs that influential interest groups in the West favor restoring ties...
Chalk it up to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's charm offensive. The Libyan leader has not only agreed to cooperate with the Pan Am trial; he has also signaled through official and unofficial channels that he is ready to do business with Washington. For starters, he has booted a number of radicals out of his country, including the infamous Abu Nidal. It may come as a surprise to those who remember the '80s--when Libya was implicated in the bombing of a discotheque in Germany that killed two American servicemen--to hear a senior U.S. official say, "At this moment, [Gaddafi...
...Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi this week tried to extend an olive branch to the U.S. in a strongly worded denunciation of terrorism. What constitutional office does Ghaddafi hold in Libya...