***Gadaffi still not playing by the rules*** by Eric D

So it was a great week for the tyrant from Serta as he managed to get public excuses from Switzerland while obtaining the release of another convicted bomber, found guilty in the Lockerbie plane bombing. Almost three hundred people lost their lives just before Christmas and the funny thing is that we still don’t know why. Why did Libya order the bombing of that plane? Furthermore, let’s be fair to the moron who just got freed, how can a nobody like him would decide to bomb a plane out of the blue? Unless the real person behind this act of terrorism is really the head of the Lybian state. He has shown an ability to be disruptive and threatening at times, at least until the US got tired of his act and bombed him prompting very little reaction from anybody because the crazy Colonel had worn out his welcome just about everywhere. And quietly he went for a few years, that was until oil and its profits combined with inept policies from other African leaders brought him back to the forefront. All of sudden, the former mad man from Serta had an epiphany and agreed to suspend and destroy his dormant nuclear program while agreeing to repay the victims of two Libyan ordered plane bombings (the second one being the DC 10 from the defunct airline UTA). So all world leaders started filing in Tripoli under the colonel’s tent and contracts got signed while handshakes were exchanged and just like that, so went away all the lives taken by Libyan mandated terrorists. Once again, oil had managed to wash away all that blood. Gadaffi after all these years is still playing offside except this time the referees are his former accusers. He is still as arrogant as ever and contradicts himself every other sentence but he has emerged again as one of the main leaders in Africa, forty years after the coup that brought him to power, a longevity also brought on by oil money. However, Gadaffi remains a notable leader in Africa because his oil less counterparts from sub-Saharan Africa have plunged the continent into a deeper state of economic shock than any other continent. This allows the Colonel to plug budget holes here and there for some of them when he is not financing a rebellion against them. Oil has clearly been a gift that keeps on giving for The Guide or the King of all traditional Kings (his latest nickname). Gadaffi has even pushed the envelope by taking over the pan africanist ideas of great African leaders such as Nkawme Krumah, Barthelemy Bouganda…One must in all fairness mention the fact despite his numerous spats of madness, he seems to be the only African leader able to get the former colony owner to bend (Italy in his case) while all the others countries remain on orders. In closing, it is a sad reality to note that the simple fact that a lunatic like Gadaffi remains at the forefront of the news prove that Africa has a clear shortage of real politicians. If this current picture is a sign of things to come, then God helps the African continent.

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