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Libyan Leader Qaddafi Cancels Trip to Canada
Saturday, September 26, 2009


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Sept. 25: Libya's President Muammar al-Qaddafi arrives in Venezuela for a summit.
TORONTO — Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi has canceled a planned visit to Canada next week.

A Canadian government official said Saturday Qaddafi won't be landing in Newfoundland early next week to refuel his plane and stay for a night. The official said hotel reservations have been canceled and Libya's advance team has left.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because to avoid speaking for another country's head of state.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper had planned on sending Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon to meet with Qaddafi to express Canada's displeasure over the hero's welcome Libya gave to the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. All 259 people aboard Pan Am Flight 103 and 11 people on the ground died when a bomb blew up the plane over Scotland in 1988.

Qaddafi arranged a welcome for the cancer-stricken Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was released from a Scottish prison last month on compassionate grounds.

Harper's office said the welcoming constituted an insult to all the victims who died in that appalling act of terrorism — including Canadians.

Qaddafi is attending a weekend Africa-South America summit in Venezuela. He was scheduled to stop in St. John's, Newfoundland after that meeting. It was not an official visit to Canada.

The mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland had said Qaddafi had wanted to pitch his Bedouin-style tent during his visit.

The Libyan leader had a difficult time finding a place to spend time while in the New York area this past week for the United Nations General Assembly meeting. Requests for space in Central Park, Englewood, New Jersey, and Manhattan's Upper East Side were all rejected. Qaddafi stayed at the city's Libyan Mission after arriving Tuesday.

When his tent was spotted Tuesday in the terraced courtyard of a stone manor house on property owned by Donald Trump, it didn't go over well. Trump hinted he'd been tricked into renting his land, politicians declared Qaddafi unwelcome and Bedford issued a stop-work order, saying the tent violated various zoning and housing codes.

The Libyan leader has been trying to restore his country's standing in the world and transform it from a pariah state to an accepted member of the international community.

Qaddafi surprised the international community by agreeing to dismantle his country's weapons of mass destruction programs.

On Saturday, a woman whose brother died in the flight over Lockerbie said she and another victim's relative met in New York City with

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Qaddafi turned coward on the Canadians. Did the obama regime meet with Qaddafi while he was here and give him a tounge lashing like Canada was about to?
 

Steve

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"It's very disheartening to hear that Donald Trump has seemingly opened his doors to Gadhafi," he said.

and with that note.. I will never set foot in any trump establishment ever..

Trump .... Your fired!
 

aplusmnt

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Steve said:
"It's very disheartening to hear that Donald Trump has seemingly opened his doors to Gadhafi," he said.

and with that note.. I will never set foot in any trump establishment ever..

Trump .... Your fired!

I was thinking that Trump said they did no know Gadhafi was staying there, something about loaning it to some foreigners that then loaned it to Gadhafi. I thought they said once Trump knew they were putting up the tent that they were ordered to take it down.

Not sure how accurate all this is just saw a tidbit on the news about it but did not really pay much attention to it, so my info may be missing something.
 

Steve

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aplusmnt said:
Steve said:
"It's very disheartening to hear that Donald Trump has seemingly opened his doors to Gadhafi," he said.

and with that note.. I will never set foot in any trump establishment ever..

Trump .... Your fired!

I was thinking that Trump said they did no know Gadhafi was staying there, something about loaning it to some foreigners that then loaned it to Gadhafi. I thought they said once Trump knew they were putting up the tent that they were ordered to take it down.

Not sure how accurate all this is just saw a tidbit on the news about it but did not really pay much attention to it, so my info may be missing something.

if Trump doesn't know what is going on in his own back yard... he should be fired... either way.. until he can show he didn't know about it... I have no intention of setting foot on any of his establishments..
 

aplusmnt

Well-known member
Steve said:
aplusmnt said:
Steve said:
and with that note.. I will never set foot in any trump establishment ever..

Trump .... Your fired!

I was thinking that Trump said they did no know Gadhafi was staying there, something about loaning it to some foreigners that then loaned it to Gadhafi. I thought they said once Trump knew they were putting up the tent that they were ordered to take it down.

Not sure how accurate all this is just saw a tidbit on the news about it but did not really pay much attention to it, so my info may be missing something.

if Trump doesn't know what is going on in his own back yard... he should be fired... either way.. until he can show he didn't know about it... I have no intention of setting foot on any of his establishments..

No big fan of Trump so carry on! But I kind of believe him Trump is pretty protective of his Brand and would never want this kind of negative publicity!

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