GATHAFI HAILS OBAMA AS A BEACON OF LIGHT

Libyan leader says 'reasonable' political discourse of US President breaks away from 'arrogance' of predecessors.

TRIPOLI - Libya's Moamer Gathafi compared US President Barack Obama on Tuesday to a beacon of light in the "obscurity of imperialism," and said his reasoned remarks shattered the "arrogance" of his predecessors.
"President Obama is a beacon of light in the obscurity of imperialism," the Libyan leader said in a speech broadcast on state radio.
"So far his political discourse has been reasonable, breaking with the arrogance that was prevalent in statements by former US presidents," he said after Obama spoke in favour of a Palestinian state and reached out to Muslims.
Gathafi also spoke of his fear that "this new young American president will be killed, as happened to American presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, and also to Martin Luther King," the US black civil rights leader.
He also hailed "the commitment of the United States to a world without nuclear weapons," after Obama pledged in a speech in Prague on Sunday to lead the quest for a world without atomic weapons.
Gathafi renounced ambitions to build weapons of mass destruction in 2003, resulting in the return of his oil-rich north African nation to the international fold.

Courtesy: Middle East Online