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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Not taking any chances, several New Jersey
officials today told a gathering in Englewood that they don't want Libyan leader
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to pitch his tent next to the city's largest yeshiva during
next month's U.N. visit.
"Mr. Qadaffi is not welcome in New Jersey," said Gov. Corzine, joined by, among
others, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, Englewood Mayor
Michael Wildes and Councilman Robert Agresta.
Amid plans for today's demonstration, the State Department announced that the
Libyan government has bowed to the wishes of officials in Englewood and across
the state, and that Qaddafi would stay somewhere else. But politicians stuck to
their plan and underscored their point this morning on East Palisade Avenue,
outside the Libyan estate.
Rabbi Shmuley
Boteach, for one, was
pleased.
"Englewood is a
terrorist free zone
because of the
grassroots efforts of thecommunity and our
bold politicians," said
Boteach, the event's
host, who lives right
next door to the Libyan
estate.
"This rally proved that when you are on the side of democracy and what is
fundamentally right, you can make a difference," added Bergen County Sheriff
Leo McGuire.
Rothman said President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton convinced the
Libyan government it wasn't worth the grief -- not with Mayor Michael Wildesinviting what scores of people to today's protest. (See: Qaddafi not coming to
Englewood)
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the Libyans "will have suitable
accommodations and that they will respect the earnest wishes of the people of the
region."
Within days, teapot tempests stirred over whether the U.S. should accommodate
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the renounced terror supporter or find a way to keep the former "mad dog of the
Middle East" off American soil -- especially in a town with a large Orthodox
Jewish population.
Qaddafi is coming to September's opening of the United Nations General
Assembly for the first time since a coup swept him to power 40 years ago. The
timing wasn't the best -- not after last week's parole of a terminally-ill Lockerbie
bomber whom Qaddafi embraced upon his return.
A former
supporter of
terrorism
who has
since
renounced it,
Qaddafi had
planned to
stay at the
Libyan-owned estate, where workers were busy this week erecting an
air-conditioned tent to greet visitors.
They also cleared the overgrowth surrounding the neglected mansion -- once
known as Thunder Rock -- and were installing a black metal fence around the
compound along with the tent.
Qaddafi has given up his weapons, accepted responsibility for supportingbombings that killed hundreds and restored diplomatic ties with the United States
and the United Nations.
In a world where "fighting" terrorism hasn't been very successful, the opportunity
to open channels of communication at least has the potential to dramatically
change the landscape.
But for many -- including several who attended today's event -- he will remain the
man Ronald Reagan once called the mad dog of the Middle East. To the families
of those killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the $10 million they
accepted from the Libyan government for each victim apparently is nothing more
than blood money.
Terrorists and state sponsors of terror like Qaddafi should not be allowed in this
country other than to be prosecuted for them crimes," said former New York City
Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik. "The U.S. Department of State should
aggressively restrict the movement of Qaddafi and those like him to the U.N. and
at the conclusion of the General Assembly, they should be put back on a plane
and to where they came from.
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