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Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi cancels visit to Canada: reports
Canwest News Service via National Post ^ | 2009-09-26

Posted on 09/26/2009 1:02:29 PM PDT by Clive

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has cancelled a planned visit to Canada next week.

Officials confirmed Saturday that Gadhafi had scrapped plans to land in Newfoundland this Tuesday to refuel his plane.

One report said hotel reservations for the leader had been cancelled and his advance team had left.

The planned visit had caused a stir in Canada, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper ordering Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon to greet the despot upon his arrival to express this country's outrage over the reception Libya recently gave to the newly released Lockerbie bomber.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, an alleged former Libyan intelligence officer, was treated as a hero upon his arrival in Libya after Scotland released him on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill with cancer.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: dictators; gadhafi; libya; maddog

1 posted on 09/26/2009 1:02:29 PM PDT by Clive
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To: exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...

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2 posted on 09/26/2009 1:03:07 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive
This Canadian would like to invite Gadhafi to pitch his tent on Baffin Island, in February.
3 posted on 09/26/2009 1:05:12 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Clive

hey Mallomar....I understand you can get cubans up there....hurray up there Ka-daffy.....


4 posted on 09/26/2009 1:08:03 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Clive
"The planned visit had caused a stir in Canada, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper ordering Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon to greet the despot upon his arrival to express this country's outrage over the reception Libya recently gave to the newly released Lockerbie bomber."

Good for harper. At least ONE country in this world has a leader with enough guts to confront this terrorist over his actions.

5 posted on 09/26/2009 1:17:06 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Clive
The camel jockey needs to go back to where he belongs which is in a cave in the Middle East.

I have a feeling that all this crap wouldn't have happened if President Bush was still in the White House.

6 posted on 09/26/2009 1:18:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Clive

I should think most Canadians would be relieved if this trip were cancelled. Who wants this putz roaming around (not to mention giving one of his speeches).


7 posted on 09/26/2009 1:21:40 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Clive
Gadhafi is so ugly he would make a freight train take a dirt road.

He looks like one of the Muppets.
8 posted on 09/26/2009 1:31:32 PM PDT by FrankR ( We're up to "reverse discrimination"...what's next, "reverse SLAVERY"?)
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To: Clive

They’re just being kind - there isn’t enough Thorazine in the whole country for Mo.


9 posted on 09/26/2009 1:31:38 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Vaquero
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..Mallomars
10 posted on 09/26/2009 1:39:29 PM PDT by ditto h
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To: Nathan Zachary

It really does sicken me that few governments seem to want to hold Gadaffi accountable anymore.

Nice going Canada.


11 posted on 09/26/2009 1:49:13 PM PDT by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade)
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Thanks for the ping, Clive.


12 posted on 09/26/2009 2:05:19 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: FrankR

Why ya gotta hate on the Muppets?!? They were cute!


13 posted on 09/26/2009 2:23:37 PM PDT by MonicaG (Thank you to our military & veterans, with love & gratitude. XOXOXO)
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To: fanfan

Canada comes through again!


14 posted on 09/26/2009 2:33:43 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: fanfan; Clive

Thank You PM Stephen Harper.

It must be nice to live in a country where your leader puts
Country and honor first.


15 posted on 09/26/2009 3:08:37 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: Clive

“The planned visit had caused a stir in Canada, with Prime Minister Stephen
Harper ordering Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon to greet the despot upon
his arrival to express this country’s outrage over the reception Libya
recently gave to the newly released Lockerbie bomber.”

Like I try to tell my fellow “’Muricans”, we have many more friends
than enemies north of the border.

As an American citizen...
What’s truly unsettling is to have Sarkozy and Harper be tougher
than our “President Pantywaist” (as termed by “The Telegraph”).


16 posted on 09/26/2009 3:12:22 PM PDT by VOA
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To: SoCalPol; Bahbah

Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister when I learned about this thing called “government”.

I am so proud of my Country under Stephen Harper.

It’s the Canada my father, and every other soldier, fought for.

Weeeee’re Baaaack!!!!

:-D


17 posted on 09/26/2009 3:32:37 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Clive

couldn’t face the strain of translating his ramblings into English AND French I guess


18 posted on 09/26/2009 4:44:20 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Clive

19 posted on 09/26/2009 6:23:07 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Clive

Do you think maybe he was dis-invited and allowed to save face by saying it was his idea to cancel?


20 posted on 09/26/2009 6:31:53 PM PDT by uncitizen
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