As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise! Surprise!" Yeah, right, Khadaffy, the AU. Uh huh. Chalk up Libya under the Unilateral Power Works column. This is pure raw embarrassment for those UN twits who claimed credit for their diplomactic Dinner Tour efforts. I guess they hoped Khadaffy would spare them and keep his mouth shut... Heh, when has he EVER kept his mouth shut? I love his new cover: the Mythical African Union. What a hoser.
Libyan leader Colonel Moamer Khaddafi on says his decision late last year to abandon all weapons of mass destruction was motivated by self-preservation. "Any national state that adopts this policy [of weapons of mass destruction] cannot protect itself, instead it would expose itself to danger," he said at the closing ceremony of a summit meeting of the African Union (AU).
| Looks like the judicious application of the ClueBat had an effect. |
It was the first time that Khaddafi had spoken of his December decision in such a public international gathering. "The nuclear arms race is a crazy and destructive policy for the economy and for life, we would like to have a better economy and a better life," he told the meeting in Arabic, with an accompanying English translation. "We have found out it is not the responsibility of any national state" to possess such weapons, but rather that of multinational bodies such as the AU, which groups 53 African states. He said any proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by any individual African state would jeopardise their relations with one another. "We have decided in Africa that Africa must be free of weapons of mass destruction," he said, adding that Libya was the second country in the continent, after South Africa, to abandon them. |