Don't know whether to laugh or pound something--latest on Gadaffi

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Gadaffi To Head Human Rights Body Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi is to head an international watchdog on human rights.

Libya is to be elected chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights - despite its links with terrorism and torture.

The move sparked a storm of controversy as it emerged British officials did nothing to block the appointment.

Libyan terrorists were responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, and Gadaffi's regime has been criticised for violence against its own people.

Isolate

Human rights groups and Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith united to criticise the appointment.

But a Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "Our policy is to engage constructively with Libya, rather than isolate them."

Gadaffi's one-year term begins next March.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2002

Answers

I saw this late yesterday and was going to post it, but since I couldn't find another source that for this, I thought maybe it was a joke. Well, $hit, maybe not.

-- Anonymous, August 20, 2002

source? there's a source?

-- Anonymous, August 21, 2002

Sure--tomato source, barbecue source, hunter source, oh lots and lots of sources.

-- Anonymous, August 21, 2002

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