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Moammar Ghaddafi's son Seif el-Islam, heir-apparent top-dog in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahariya, is pretending to pressure the Arab League to democratize. He's getting a lot of great press in the West (I goofed and gave him some, too), and he doesn't deserve a bit of it. This little snippet from the New York Times makes the lad sound like some kind of hero. "'Democracy is the future,' Mr. Qaddafi, 32, said at his Moroccan-style villa outside Tripoli, where he keeps a white tiger, Freddo, among other exotic pets. 'We have to be ahead of the world in...

On a visit to Paris during which he met with French President Jacques Chirac, the son of Libyan ruler Muammar Al-Qaddafi, Sayf Al-Islam Al-Qaddafi, gave an interview to the London Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat. The following are excerpts from the interview: [1] 'The Libyan People is Interested in Progress, Development, and Democracy' Question: "Do you think the problem of the UTA [2] plane [for which Libya was responsible] and the damages paid to the families of the victims has been completely resolved with Paris?" Sayf Al-Islam: "I heard personally from President Chiracthat we have solved the problem of the UTA plane,...