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Smitten Gadhafi? Rebels find Condoleezza Rice photo book
We'd long heard that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi admired former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In 2007, he called her "Leeza ... my darling black African woman" whom he loved "very much."
Just words? Perhaps. Or maybe, as a discovery this week suggests, he really was quite impressed.
Rebels ransacking his Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli found a photo album of Rice, The New York Times reports.
A description of the album, from the Times:
"There she is, in one (picture), smiling off to the side, her flip-do accented perfectly for the camera. And there she is in another, smiling next to you-know-who during that visit to Tripoli. He is wearing a flowing white robe with purple sash and Africa pin; she looks more businesslike in a gray pinstripe suit with white pearls, her flip-do having given way to a page-boy bob."
Rice was with the Bush administration when the United States restored relations with Libya in 2005, after Gadhafi decided to abandon his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, renounce terrorism and compensate victims of a 1986 disco bombing in Berlin and the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.
In a 2007 interview with Al Jazeera, Gadhafi said this about Rice:
"I support my darling, black African woman. ... I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. ... I love her very much. I admire her, and I'm proud of her because she's a black woman of African origin."
Gadhafi met with Rice the next year, when Rice made the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state to Libya in more than 50 years. CNN's Elise Labott reported on their meeting in a reception room at Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound:
"Gadhafi, wearing a white robe and a black fez but not his trademark dark sunglasses, shook the hands of the male members of Rice's staff but not Rice, instead offering the traditional greeting of his hand over his heart for her," Labott reported in her CNN.com piece, noting that Muslim men are prohibited from shaking hands with women to whom they are not related.
Rice's office, when reached by CNN on Thursday for reaction to the photo album, said she'd reserve comment until the release of her book on November 1.
Fouad Ajami, a Middle East expert, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and an outspoken critic of Gadhafi, provided some context regarding why Gadhafi would stress Rice's African roots and comment on her dealings with Arab leaders.
"He ... fancied himself at one point as something of an African," Ajami told CNN's Joe Johns on Thursday. "He basically said at one point that Libya is an African country, (that) it has nothing to do with the Arabs. And he dubbed himself king of the kings of Africa, and he turned his back on the Arabs."
Ajami said he wouldn't think Rice is thrilled.
"Secretary Rice is an esteemed colleague ... at Hoover and something of a friend, so I don't think she's flattered by this," Ajami told Johns on "The Situation Room."
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Libya is indeed an African country and so why is making news if Gadhafi sees himself as an African? What is strange about he admiring Rice? Gadhafi is a human being on the wrong side of the political spectrum from western perspectives. That's the bottom line. Pursue the oil and isolate him but do not demonize and dehumanize him in a way that makes no sense. Wise up!
Ms Rice is pretty and smart. A presidential candidate. She will do a better job than Obama
I could dream up a cool caricature of Ghadaffi as Borat searching the country for Pamela Anderson.
she may be smart but she is without a doubt a two bagger
Jennyy you're neither blonde or pretty, just and ugly waste of your father's sperm and your mother's fat yet rotting and ageing egg...:0)
"gimme a sista I cant resista red beans and rice didn't miss her"
-Sir Mix a Lot
brilliant.
Condoleezza Gadhafi ???? Hum?
they should stop the fight and make an arab royal wedding , and invite Osama sorry Obama and western leaders ,
Hubba Hubba . LOL
Kind of have a thing for her myself.
They also found notebooks where Moammar had drawn hearts and arrows through them, with "Mrs. Moammar Rice" written in them.
Ok, that got a chuckle! 😉
He still hopes to hide in the space between her teeth.
Its called a Gap...:0)
WHAT A DIGUSTING WOMAN, THAT IS WHY SHE IS NOT MARRIED
Your Mother Goes Down On Hebrew National Franks..:0)
abd, you and the imbecile barack obama are the ones who are disgusting. none of you will ever measure up to where condee rice has been . your mothers were never married but offered themselves freely to men. you are a fool.
Shes not married because she is hateful mean an opinionated.No one likes an opinionated woman...Look at Palin and Bachmann.....most people also hate them ...why? because they are hateful and opinionated. There is nothing wrong with women who speak their mind ....but it has to be done with tact and respect for others. HRC and Oprah are intelligent and outspoken women who are not hateful and overbearing and overly opinionated. There are classy women with power that do not feel have to try and compete or be like a man ,...they still know their place as being in the female gender.....Then there are the outspoken women full of their own argumentative opinions like the two running for president now and that Rice woman who's actions and demeanor reflect on all women ...(which is not right).
i hope you are happily married. idiots like you want to run other people lives for them
What else is New??
I see if this was Hillary, Palin and Michelle Bachmann, you Whites would not think twice of mentioning her looks. As Albino Recessive Skin and Stringy Dog smelling hair is beautiful. She may no be Thandie Newton who is mixed Race but pleasing to the eye with a gorgeous smile, dimples and height-– powerful nevertheless!
Thats funny because everyone knows that its the black people who have an odor and smell like animals...especially when their wet! FACT!
You are so right justin, just ask your mom!!
Wow! Moammar Gadhafi wants Condoleezza Rice to be his concubine ! That will make George W. Bush jealous and broken heart. Does Bush still make coffee every morning to his wife ?