Friday, January 23, 2009

Gaddafi Urges Obama To Open Dialogue With Bin Laden and Taliban








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Gaddafi Urges Obama To Open Dialogue With Bin Laden and Taliban



Posted: 22 Jan 2009 08:55 PM PST



While I don’t believe there is even a remote chance of this happening, it

nonetheless amazes me that there is a segment of the population that would

actually be in favor of such dialogue.


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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has advised President Barack Obama

to give Osama bin Laden a chance to reform, telling the new president

America’s most wanted man was looking for “dialogue.”


Mr Gaddafi hailed what he called “positive signals” so far from the

new Obama administration, including plans to close the US prison at

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


Speaking to students at Georgetown University via a satellite link-up

from Libya, Mr Gaddafi said Washington must review its approach to

bin Laden, who is blamed for the September 11, 2001 attacks and

tops the US Most Wanted List.


“Terrorism is a dwarf not a giant. Osama bin Laden is a person

who can be given a chance to reform,” Mr Gaddafi said through an

interpreter.


He gave no indication that he had any contact with bin Laden or

wanted to act as a go-between.


“Maybe we can have a dialogue with him and find out the reason

that led him in this direction,” he added.


Moreover, he said the Taliban, which the United States helped oust

in Afghanistan, was “not as it has been portrayed” and Washington

should review its views on that group too.


In a speech outlining his views on how to resolve the Israeli-

Palestinian conflict, Mr Gaddafi called for the creation of one

state rather than two nations living side by side.


“We can call it Isratine,” he said.


If Jews did not accept a one-state solution, he said they could move to

Hawaii, Alaska or an island in the Pacific.


“They could live peacefully in an isolated setting,” he said.


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