Every time Muammar Qaddafi makes the news, I’m reminded of something that happened almost 25 years ago when I was serving as an Air Force public affairs officer at McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kan. After the Libyan dictator was blamed for the deadly April 5, 1986, bombing of a Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S. service [...]
Turmoil in Libya Brings Back Memories
February 21st, 2011 · No Comments
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Why Was Morocco First to Recognize USA?
February 16th, 2010 · 6 Comments
By Bill Federer Guest Blogger “The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco,” stated President Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009. In 1625, Governor William Bradford wrote of a Pilgrim ship returning to England with dried fish and beaver skins to trade for supplies: “They…were well within the England Channel, almost in sight [...]
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Libyan Leader Calls for Relocating United Nations!
September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
File this under “The best news I’ve heard in a long time”: Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Qaddafi thanked the United States for hosting the United Nations for 50-plus years and implored his fellow world leaders to relocate the U.N. to someplace outside of the United States! I agree wholeheartedly with the tinpot dictator from North Africa! [...]
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