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tledford Donating Member (633 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:01 PM
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3. The Roman-alphabet spelling of Qaddafi's name varies because...
...it is transliterated from a non-Roman alphabet, Arabic. So any Roman-alphabet representation of his name is an approximation, just as many Asian people have names that are spelled many different ways using the Roman alphabet.

Anyway, I have a question for you: George W. Bush was a terrorist when he was President of the United States, responsible for the murders of at least 600,000 innocent Iraquis. Would you expect him to have no police protection if he were visiting Libya?
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