New Jersey residents not too happy to hear Moammar Gadhafi may be comin’ to town in September and setting up a ‘tent’

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will set foot on U.S. soil for the first time next month when he comes to address the U.N. General Assembly. Now he wants to put down stakes in the middle of American suburbia, according to Yahoo:

Plans to set up a tent and allow him to stay at a Libyan-owned estate in this upscale community 12 miles north of Manhattan were attacked Monday by neighborhood residents and public officials, particularly after the hero’s welcome Libya extended last week to the lone man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan American Flight 103.
The attack over Lockerbie, Scotland, thought to be the work of Libyan intelligence, killed all 259 people on board the flight, including 33 from New Jersey. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was freed from a life sentence in a Scottish jail and returned to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is dying of cancer.

“Gadhafi is a dangerous dictator whose hands are covered with the blood of Americans and our allies,” said U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, whose district includes Englewood. He promised there would be “hell to pay” if the U.S. State Department violates a long-standing deal barring the dictator from staying at the Libyan estate.

State department officials said no decision had been made on the issue.

Rothman was mayor of Englewood 26 years ago when the city learned the Libyan Mission to the United Nations had purchased the Palisade Avenue estate. He said local officials worked out a deal with the U.S. State Department limiting its use to the recreational activities by the ambassador and his family. Gadhafi was expressly forbidden to live there, he said.

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August 24, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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  • Dave B

    If that son of a bitch steps foot in the United States and our Government protects him then we’ll know that our elected officials are cowards, don’t care about their constituents, and could care less about what really happens in the world so long as they can get re-elected. He just slapped us in the face, send him a f..king message that he can’t do that or you’re nothing but a bunch of cowards! Do we have anybody with balls protecting our country and our way of living any more other than the soldiers? Oh God Please… get rid of these idealogue morons running our country!