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Muammar Gadhafi Outraged by King Abdullah at Arab Summit in Qatar
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by Tina Kells | March 30, 2009 at 08:31 am
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Libya's Muammar Gadhafi has firmly established himself as the upstart leader of the Arab nations after he stormed out of the Arab summit in Qatar in an ego fueled fit. The source of Gadahfi's outrage was none other than Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.
"I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam (leader) of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level," Gadhafi said.
Gadhafi, who is known for his unpredictable behavior, then got up and walked out of the summit hall. A Libyan delegate said he went to an Islamic museum in Doha for a tour.
Gadhafi has angered other Arab leaders with his sharp remarks at past summits and has harbored a grudge against Abdullah since exchanging harsh words during a summit in early 2003 shortly before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
King Abdullah and Muammar Ghadafi have a long history of clashing proverbial swords. In 2007 Ghadafi boycotted the Arab summit in Saudi Arabia stating that he believed the Americans were behind the agenda. He has often called King Abdullah and American puppet.
In 2008 Ghadafi again showed deep scorn for Arab leaders, warning them that they faced fates similar to that of Iraq's Suddam Hussein. In the past Ghadafi's public statements about other Arab leaders have been full of disdain.
Gadhafi told the summit in Algeria that Palestinians and Israelis are "stupid." A year earlier, he sat smoking cigars on the conference floor of the Tunisia summit to show his contempt for the other leaders.
"Now after six years, it has proved that you were the liar," Gadhafi told Abdullah, adding that he now considered their "problem" over and was ready to reconcile.
Gadhafi disrupted the opening Arab League summit in Qatar by taking a microphone and criticizing Saudi's King Abdullah, calling him a "British product and American ally."
Muammar Ghadafi's self-characterization of his leadership as "the dean or Arab rulers" is in contrast to his role as the leader of the African Union. Ghadadi worked hard to ally himself with African leaders, focusing on himself as a leader of an African nation, which makes his assertion to represent Arab nations as well somewhat surprising.
His personal outing was no less been informing of the status he seems to believe should be accorded him. In fact, he was said to have attended the session dressed in a gold-embroidered green robe and flanked by seven extravagantly dressed men who said they were the "traditional kings of Africa" and reportedly told about 20 of his colleagues what he planned to do with the idea of 'the United States of Africa.'
"I think the coming time will be a time of serious work and a time of action and not words," he had said shortly after the election.
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at 09:27 on March 30th, 2009
Gadhafi is an interesting figure to say the least. He is the one who greats world leaders into his Bedouin tent whereever he goes. He is quite a character.
at 19:52 on April 12th, 2009
I was just wondering.
Being anti-American has got any connection with the high longevity of these leaders? Look at the cases of Castro and Gadhafi. There should be something we don't know.
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at 19:54 on April 12th, 2009
There's a lot of controversy over the spelling of his name, as reported by Saturday Night Live, and it's most probably Qaddafi, but no matter which buffoon they elect as leader of the so-called Arab World, things will never change, because there's no such thing as the Arab World, just a bunch of countries with different interests pulling in different directions. As for the man who's responsible for the murder of 300 Pan American passengers at Lockerbie, he should consider himself lucky that he's still talking...
at 12:00 on May 30th, 2009
The Libyan leader should not have gone to Doha to criticise the king of Saudi Arabia; yes, Qaddafi has been a leader of Libya for the past 38 years but King Abdullah is a monarch for life and is therefore accorded a much higher status than even a long serving president (and an unelected one for that matter, despite his claims that he is a brother leader). Qaddafi may claim to be the king of kings of africa but he fails to realise that traditional kings do not have much power in africa- anyway, i will leave the libyan leader to his eccentricities.