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Gadhafi Had Album of Condi Rice Pics

He once praised her as 'my darling black African woman'

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 25, 2011 1:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – Did Moammar Gadhafi have a thing for Condoleezza Rice? It sure looks that way: Rebel looters found a photo album in Gadhafi’s compound filled with page after page of photos of Rice, MSNBC reports. Rice visited Libya in 2008 to celebrate what was supposed to be a new stage in US-Libyan relations, the Washington Post recalls, but Gadhafi was a fan even before that.

In a 2007 al-Jazeera interview, Gadhafi gave a quote that looks just a bit creepier in hindsight. “I support my darling black African woman," he said. "I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders ... Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. ... I love her very much. I admire her and I'm proud of her because she's a black woman of African origin.”

Rebel fighters look through an album they found containing photos of Condoleezza Rice, inside Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Bab Al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya.
Rebel fighters look through an album they found containing photos of Condoleezza Rice, inside Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Bab Al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya.   (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)
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HappyHabenero
Aug 26, 2011 9:20 AM CDT
That's just plain ole creepy.
HMunster
Aug 25, 2011 5:45 PM CDT
"Gadhafi Had Album of Condi Rice Pics" Are the pages sticky?
Kookey90
Aug 25, 2011 5:41 PM CDT
Well, there you have it, once again we missed our chance.  If our CIA had their stuff together and would have gotten a wind of this, the president could have flown Condi over to Libya in Air Force One, given Gadhafi some head, told him what a great lay he was and we would have won him over - Done Deal. Anyway, isn’t that what politics is all about?    

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