Rice meets Gadhafi

LankaTruth 05th Sep: 2008. 07.06 PM

Condoleezza Rice, the most senior diplomat of the U.S.A arrived in Libya today.  Rice will hold a landmark meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. This is the first time, in more than half a century, that a U.S. secretary of state is visiting Libya dubbed by President Ronald Reagan of the USA as "the mad dog the Middle East." 

Rice and Gadhafi are expected to meet in the Libyan leader's Bedouin tent he favors for high profile meetings. In an interview with an Arabic news agency last year Gadhafi had said, "I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders," and had added "I love her very much because she's a black woman of African origin."

In Portugal, before flying to Tripoli, Rice called her trip "a historic moment and it is one that has come after a lot of difficulty," saying that Libya "is a place that is changing and I want to discuss how that change is taking place."