Libya's Qaddafi Tries the Role of Islamist Uniter
By Douglas Farah
Ever the chameleon on the international stage, Libyan dictator Muamar Qaddafi is making a play to return to his Islamic roots and play the role that Sudan did under the leadership of Hasan al-Turabi-a bridge between Shi'ite and Sunni camps to form a broader Islamic nation.
According to translations of recent Qaddafi speeches provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute, the aging leader, who had in recent years turned his back on Arabs and declared himself an pan-Africanist, is now calling for the recreation the Shi'ite _Fatimid_ state, which ruled northern Africa from the 10th to the 13th centuries.
I have long argued that, given his constant meddling in sub-Saharan Africa, his support for Mugabe in Zimbabwe and his gross abuses of human rights, that Qaddafi was not a reliable partner in any way, for virtually anything, despite getting his country taken off the state sponsors of terrorism list.
His list of other atrocities are also long. My full blog is here.
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