Rwanda - Colonel Mu'ammar Gaddafi and the Libyans

Ol' Mu'ammar's been making up for lost time since handing over to an international court two suspects alleged to be involved in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. He's been trotting around Africa with his armed detail of female mud-wrestlers trying to make peace in the DRC. Gaddafi is emerging as Africa's version of Jimmy Carter, doing it with the style (and wardrobe) of Don King. Though he looks more like a WWF fight promoter than an actual statesman, he seems to be relishing in his newly-attained mobility and his ability to bring the warring factions of the Great Lakes to the peace table. In May 1999, Gaddafi hosted a meeting in the Libyan city of Sirte between Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Congo President Laurent Kabila at which the two signed a declaration of intent aimed at securing a peaceful solution to the crisis. Then he sent 62 Libyan troops to Uganda's Windsor Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe for some prepeacekeeping cocktails, even though they weren't "sanctioned"-a word the Libyan leader has found confusing as of late. At least he gets to take plane rides these days. The colonel was getting damn tired of bouncing around Africa in a jeep while his buddies were jet-setting around the Dark Continent in wet-leased Boeings.

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