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Brother Leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's return to the African diplomatic circuit was a high point of the July Organisation of African Unity summit in Algiers. His entourage of 200, including the legendary female bodyguards, and his insistence on working in a tent pitched in the conference centre grounds provided welcome relief from the more mundane door-stepping interviews for the 500 journalists there....

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Moammar el Gadaffi, Idris, Algerian, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Syria, Hafiz el Assad, Congo-K, Laurent Kabila, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, British, Ahmed, Khalifa Azzabi, Yvonne Fletcher, Khalifa Bezelia, Saudi Arabia

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