Gadhafi's Son Says Libya Forsakes Mideast (Misleading Headline)

[Khephra]

TRIPOLI, Libya -- The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi proposed a new plan for general reforms in which he said his country will move away from the Middle East and reduce spending on the military.

"Libya has decided to separate from the so-called Middle East," Seif al-Islam Gadhafi said at the opening session of a Tripoli conference for business leaders from Western countries.

Gadhafi said he is proposing a new reform plan that will include major cuts in military expenditure.

"There is no need anymore to continue spending on the military field," he said. "Instead, we will direct such spending to development."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-libya-reforms,0,4800764.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[pinniped]

1. Is Libya situated on its own separate tectonic plate?

n/t

[Maple]

2. Gadhafi is like Madonna

He reinvents himself every few years

[Gyre]

3. Good. Maybe

Mubarrak will invade and get rid of that pock-marked dork Gadhalfi so we don't have to hear his irrelevent BS anymore.

Get rid of him and Arafat as Arab poster-boys, and Israel's ongoing Arab-demonization campaign will actually have to work a little harder to get us murrikans to vicerally hate Arabs.

Gyre