Qazzafi has always been provocative. He has an ‘in your face’ attitude.
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Qatar: Gaddafi storms out of Arab League summit - Adnkronos Politics
Doha, 30 March (AKI) - Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday stormed out of the Arab league summit being hosted by Qatar after denouncing Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah for his ties with the west. He called him a British product and a United States ally.
Gaddafi (photo) quit the summit’s opening session when the emir of Qatar switched off his microphone. Gaddafi left the summit saying he as “the dean of Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims” could not be denied the right to address the summit.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani switched off Gaddafi’s mike after he described King Abdullah as “a liar”.
Gaddafi was referring to a a harsh exchange of words between him and the Saudi monarch shortly before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
“Now after six years, it has [been] proved that you were the liar,” said Gaddafi.
Gaddafi had added that he now considered their “problem” over.
The African Union elected Gaddafi as its chairman at its summit in February.
In his remarks, Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir thanked the Arab League for its support against the international arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court earlier this month.
“This support will continue, God willing, through resolutions… demanding that those who fabricated it, revoke it… so that the Arab and African peace initiative in Darfur can get a strong base to stand on,” al-Bashir stated.
Al-Bashir thanked Gaddafi during a visit to Libya last week for his “solid pro-Sudan positions in regional and international forums.”
Gaddafi last month urged the ICC to halt its case against al-Bashir.
Only three Arab League members - Jordan, the Comoros Islands, and Djibouti - are signatories to the agreements underpinning the ICC.
Arab League secretary-general Amr Moussa said it will ask the ICC to withdraw its arrest warrant for al-Bashir.
But while Arab League countries have condemned al-Bashir’s international arrest warrant, its summit this week looks unlikely to agree on anything else, according to observers.
Arab states are divided by a growing rift symbolised by the absence from the summit of Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak.
The basic divide is between those countries seen by their adversaries as being in thrall to the US, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other conservative states; and those seen by the latter as being in league with Iran, such as Syria and Qatar.