Gadaffi To Head Human Rights Body

SkyNews ^ | Tue 20 Aug 2002

[gubamyster]

Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi is to head an international watchdog on human rights.

Libya is to be elected chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights - despite its links with terrorism and torture.

The move sparked a storm of controversy as it emerged British officials did nothing to block the appointment.

Libyan terrorists were responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, and Gadaffi's regime has been criticised for violence against its own people.

Isolate

Human rights groups and Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith united to criticise the appointment.

But a Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "Our policy is to engage constructively with Libya, rather than isolate them."

Gadaffi's one-year term begins next March.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi

This guy is still a colonel? Lol...

[zapiks44]

Last year, when the US was kicked off the HR council to the rejoicing of much of the world, and with members like China, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and Vietnam, I thought the UN HR council couldn't sink any lower. I guess I spoke too soon.

[Mad Dawgg]

"And that little purple pillbox hat is all wrong for him."

Man I tell ya...

Does anyone else get aging-transvestite-Queen-for-a-day vibes from that pick?

Yesh!!!

[ChadGore]

BREAKING NEWS>>>>> BILL CLINTON TO RUN BATTERED WIVES SHELTER!! (better put some ice on that)

[dennisw]

 

Sun Jul 21, 1:13 PM ET

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (L) laughs as he welcomes Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi on his arrival at the presidential palace in Cairo on July 21, 2002. The Libyan leader arrived in Egypt to discuss bilateral, regional and international issues with Mubarak. REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby

 

 

 

Tue Jul 23, 9:40 AM ET

Saif Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, stands in front of one of his pieces of artwork featuring his father's portrait July 23 2002. Gaddafi's work is part of a Libyan art and antiquities exhibition on view for the first time in the UK. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

 

 

 

[dennisw]

 

Would you like pistachio, chocolate chip or vanilla? Want jimmies on it?

[Madame Dufarge]

LOL!!

[PhilDragoo]

Shortly after this photograph of Gadaffi was taken, Janet Reno dispatched one hundred fifty winged monkeys armed with H & K MP-5 machine guns and orders to, "Get me that outfit!"

Reality check:

Which is the real Colonel Gadaffi?

A) Provider of death squads to protect Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe regime;

B) Leader of UN Human Rights Commission and Nobel Peace Prize candidate;

C) A and B.

[dennisw]

C is the answer......

[Selara]

It says somewhere in the Bible, "Woe to those who call right wrong, and wrong right." That certainly fits the UN.

[Salman]

Oh goody. Moammar fan pics. A day in the life of Colonel Gadaffi.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Fashion thread!

[Salman]

I think I've got it. He switched from this...

... to this...

... so as to shed his militaristic image and be more of a statesman. Yeah that's it.

[Alouette]

Moammar: "Come on Hosni, be honest now. Does this outfit make me look fat?"

[habaes corpussel]

There is no more human race!

[dighton]

I feel pretty,
Oh so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and gay,
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Moammar: "Come on Hosni, be honest now. Does this outfit make me look fat?"

Hosni: Noooo! Zaftig baby, zaftig!

[Maurice Tift]

Gadaffi To Head Human Rights Body

When I first saw this, I interpreted it to mean something like Gadaffi for Right to Keep Human Head/ Body

[aculeus]

.

His contribution to Americans' rights.