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The last time we talked about this, did we ascertain whether Clinton left that AIDS conference early? I'm looking at a text of Qadhafi's speech on April 27, 2001 where he alleged that HIV was born in CIA labs. He says of Clinton in that speech: "We saw in the past former US President Clinton , who is a good man and whom I saw somewhere in this hall, saying: I have asked the USA to earmark 2bn no currency mentioned for Africa to combat AIDS. But I understood from him that neither the US Congress nor the US companies approved it. " Sounds to me like Clinton was not in the audience at the time.

I can't find anything between Hamilton, Ontario on May 2 and the AIDS conference. I did find a Xinhua story saying that he addressed the opening session of the Abuja conference on Thursday, April 26, 2001.

I don't remember the issue of Clinton's whereabouts on April 27th arising when we investigated this before. I remember thinking that Clinton might have left with Khaddafy on Khaddafy's plane, and holed up in Libya or someplace like that for a few days. But that quote makes that look unlikely.