Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Moammar el Gadaffi twice in October...

Following on from a string of grandiose statements by Revolutionary Leader Moammar el Gadaffi that Libya would now encourage private investment the new government agreed to abide by Article VIII of the International Monetary Fund's Articles of Agreement...

Africa is putting in a strong bid against Libya where Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has built an impressive structure in his hometown Sirte to host the parliament...

The Bush government recognised this soon after 11 September 2001 when Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi shared intelligence Washington proscribed the Islamist Armed Fighting Group and Libyan activist Anas al Liby was linked to Al Qaida...

In Libya Colonel Moammer el Gadaffi's offers of compensation to end the Lockerbie affair and efforts to bring in monitors to search for weapons of mass destruction have been rebuffed by some in Washington...

After his reshuffle Muluzi planned two private trips for Easter to Libya to his frequent host Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi then to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (cancelled at the last minute)...

The normally loquacious Moammar el Gadaffi erstwhile champion of Arab nationalism and bogeyman of United States President Ronald Reagan (and many others) in the 1980s spent the weeks of the Iraq war in a state of purdah...

Above all Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi doesn't want to follow Saddam into 'axis of evil' hell; the two are no friends: an agreement in 1987 after Washington bombed Tripoli was their sole serious and short-lived rapprochement...

The evolving world order was highlighted by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's three meetings with Bush last year and Libyan efforts to engineer a quiet rapprochement with Washington not least to stop Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi following Iran Iraq and North Korea into the 'Axis of Evil'...

To make matters worse the US$360 million fuel supply credit from Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's government has been withdrawn partly because of growing arrears on payments and the lack of suitable assets that Mugabe was willing to offer to Libya as an alternative form of repayment...