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Gadhafi’s Speech, Lowest U.N. Moment Ever?
By Gerald F. Seib
September 23, 2009

Could Moammar Gadhafi’s bizarre speech to the United Nations be “the lowest point in that organizaton’s history”? There would seem to be a lot of competiton for the title, but that’s precisely the label human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson puts on Wednesday’s address by the Libyan leader.

“At one level,” Robertson writes on The Daily Beast, “it was black humor at its zenith: the world’s worst international terrorist and mass murderer urging the United Nations to investigate all the atrocities with which he is not connected. But it also prompts the thought of how far we have yet to go in the struggle for global justice, when the worst perpetrators can strut in triumph on the General Assembly stage. We do indeed, as the Colonel said, have a right to live unmolested on this earth.” But, Robertson continues, Gadhafi has personally ordered the murders “of his dissidents (he calls them ’stray dogs’) and the passenger airplanes he has ordered to be blown up—PamAm 103 and UTA 772. His secret intelligence operatives have been convicted of these crimes, but everyone knows that they would not have happened without Gadhafi’s approval. His speech today was the exemplar of hypocrisy.” the rest

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