Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's son was quoted Monday as accusing unnamed Arab rulers and officials of taking orders from US President George W. Bush.
"The (Arab) situation is moving from bad to worse and some Arabs take their orders from the American president who tells them that the suicide bomber is a terrorist and the martyr is a killer," Seif el-Islam Gadhafi told the London-based daily Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview conducted in London.
He was in London to follow up a libel suit against the British newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph. He dropped his suit after the British newspaper agreed to apologize for what it said were inaccurate articles in 1995 that called him an "untrustworthy maverick" with his own sinister "henchmen."
Gadhafi's son has been politically and socially active for the past five years either as an envoy representing his father or through his charity work as a leader of the Gadhafi International Association for Charitable Organizations. His assessment of Arab reaction to Palestinian-Israeli clashes echoed that of his father, who has accused Arab leaders of "impotence."
In the interview, the younger Gadhafi also attacked Bush for describing Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as “a man of peace,” saying that amounted to "an unbearable state of disregard or belittling of the Arabs. This situation leads to martyrdom operations." (Albawaba.com)
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