Posted on 09/02/2009 5:47:57 AM PDT by NMEwithin
The usual September parade of world leaders descending on New York City for the opening of the annual United Nations General Assembly will be characterized this year by the presence of some of the world’s most controversial leaders.
Likely to provoke the most ire this year will be Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who plans his first visit ever to the United States at a time when his emergence from international isolation has been set back by the release of the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie bombing. Of the 270 people killed when the New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up after taking off from London in 1988, 189 were Americans.
Gaddafi’s plans to erect his customary Bedouin tent in the grounds of a property in New Jersey owned by the Libyan Embassy were shelved after locals protested.
But his presence will still be provocative, with families of Lockerbie victims and the American Libyan Freedom Alliance among those planning to protest.
The alliance, which says its objective is to promote democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Libya, said it had expressed its disappointment to U.S. and U.N. officials about the planned attendance by Gaddafi “despite all his well documented international and domestic crimes.”
Gaddafi, who on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of his seizure of power, is scheduled to speak after President Obama, in his capacity as chairman of the African Union....
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Obama,Pelosi and Reid?
The United Nations promotes the worlds peanut gallery. Time for the UN to pack and leave the USA.
And the USA to leave the UN.
I wouldnt doubt that all of them, Ghaaaddafy, Ahnd-mini-Jihhad, Cha-Cha-Chavez, can’t wait to come over here (with the outreached extended hands of our Libtard gubmint) to piss all over our soil.
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