Over dinner in tent, Kadafi and 'darling' Condi Rice put U.S.-Libyan relations on normal footing
It has been more than half a century -- 55 years, to be exact -- since a U.S. secretary of state has visited Libya.
But with an evening meal in a Bedouin tent today, Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi welcomed Condoleezza Rice -- whom he called last year "my darling black African woman." Presumably, he wouldn't have been quite so gushing toward John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of state who visited in 1953.
In an interview with the Arabic TV network Al Jazeera, CNN notes, he called her "Leeza," and said: "I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders."
The dinner signaled that the United States and Libya had moved beyond nearly three decades of animosity to put the U.S.-Libyan relationship on a normal, if not entirely friendly, footing.
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