Gadhafi pledges 'United States of Africa'

Whether to cheer or cry has typically been the dilemma when considering anything that has involved Gadhafi over the last three to four decades.

A recovering revolutionary and terrorist, he's been in and out of rehab for these vices for nearly 30 years while floundering about with his "Third Universal Theory" of government, which makes Libya a theoretical democracy with its Jamahiriya system (A state of the masses).

.....And now finally what every former revolutionary dreams of....Being King!

As once stated by a man of immense wisdom "It's good to be the King".

Not to mention it is good to be a man with 30 good looking Virgin female bodyguards.....but that is another story.

In a closed-door session of the African Union summit in Ethiopia, Libyan president Muammar Gadhafi was elected leader to run the 53-nation alliance.

Before arriving to the summit, Gadhafi reportedly circulated a letter to dignitaries saying he was coming as “the king of the traditional kings of Africa” and he wanted to be seated as “the king of kings”.

Libya has proposed a “United States of Africa” which the summit debated on Sunday. Gadhafi has previously outlined his vision for African unity, which includes a single African military force, a single African currency and one African passport to travel within Africa.

Gadhafi has been trying to increase Libya's presence on the global stage and its regional influence — mediating African conflicts, sponsoring efforts to spread Islam on the continent and pushing for the creation of a single African government.

Since he seized power in a 1969 coup, Gadhafi has ruled with an iron hand and the often quixotic ideology laid out in his "Green Book," (a treatise on Islamic socialism) which outlines Gadhafi's anti-democratic and economic policies.

Gadhafi ran Libya's government as a stridently anti-Western dictatorship. British and American military bases were closed in 1970; in the same year the property of Libya's Italian and Jewish communities was confiscated. The ancient Qur'anic law of cutting off the hands of thieves was reinstituted, gambling and alcoholic beverages were outlawed, and all foreign petroleum assets were nationalized (1973). A fervent Arab nationalist, he sought to unify Libya with other Arab countries, including Egypt and Tunisia, while bitterly opposing Israel. Since Gadhafi took power the Libyan government has been known for its support of many international terrorist and guerrilla organizations, including the Irish Republican Army, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and other extremist Arab and Islamic groups.

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In 2007, his regime released five Bulgarian nurses and a naturalized Palestinian doctor after eight years in prison for allegedly infecting Libyan children with HIV. They were released following a deal struck by the European Union that involved payment of millions of dollars in aid to Libya.

"The Libyan government continues to imprison people for criticizing Gadhafi," said Reed Brody, a lawyer with Human Rights Watch who watched Gadhafi take the helm of the AU. "Hundreds more have 'disappeared.' Libya has no independent NGOs and the government tightly controls all forms of public expression."

The North African country was involved in the 1988 downing of a Pan-Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 people on board the flight from Heathrow to New York were killed when a bomb exploded. Another 11 people died on the ground. The bombing prompted United Nations-imposed sanctions and breaking of diplomatic ties with Britain and the United States.

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In the mid-1980s, he was widely regarded in the West as the principal financier of international terrorism. Reportedly, Gadhafi was a major financier of the "Black September Movement" which perpetrated the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and was accused by the United States of being responsible for direct control of the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 200, of whom a substantial number were U.S. servicemen. He is also said to have paid "Carlos the Jackal" to kidnap and then release a number of the Saudi Arabian and Iranian oil ministers.

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In 1984 British police constable Yvonne Fletcher was shot outside the Libyan Embassy in London while policing an anti-Gadhafi demonstration. A burst of machine-gun fire from within the building was suspected of killing her, but Libyan diplomats asserted their diplomatic immunity and were repatriated. The incident led to the breaking-off of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Libya for over a decade.

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For those of you wondering about the bodyguards.........

Gadhafi, surrounded by his female bodyguards, at a meeting in Paris, December 12, 2007.

Libyan strongman Colonel Gadhafi flew into Paris for a state visit escorted by 400 aides, including 30 female bodyguards, all of whom are said to be Virgins.

According to The Sun, each of these bodyguards is a camouflage-clad trained killer who will protect him around the clock.

The entourage, which arrived on five planes, also includes a fleet of armour-plated limos, a camel and a heated tent in which he stayed on the grounds of the Hotel de Marigny.