Michelle Malkin » Sick: Gadhafi wants to pitch a tent in New Jersey

Sick: Gadhafi wants to pitch a tent in New Jersey

By Michelle Malkin • August 24, 2009 11:41 PM

How much more suffering does the Obama administration want American relatives of Lockerbie bombing murder victims to take? Fresh off delivering a hero’s welcome for freed Lockerbie jihadist Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, blood-stained Libyan terrorist-enabler Moammar Gadhafi is headed to America next month.

And he wants to pitch a tent in upscale Englewood, NJ after speaking to the UN General Assembly. I wish it were just a sick joke. It’s not:

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will set foot on U.S. soil for the first time next month when he comes to address the U.N. General Assembly. Now he wants to put down stakes in the middle of American suburbia.

Plans to set up a tent and allow him to stay at a Libyan-owned estate in this upscale community 12 miles north of Manhattan were attacked Monday by neighborhood residents and public officials, particularly after the hero’s welcome Libya extended last week to the lone man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan American Flight 103.

The attack over Lockerbie, Scotland, thought to be the work of Libyan intelligence, killed all 259 people on board the flight, including 33 from New Jersey. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was freed from a life sentence in a Scottish jail and returned to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is dying of cancer.

“Gadhafi is a dangerous dictator whose hands are covered with the blood of Americans and our allies,” said U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, whose district includes Englewood. He promised there would be “hell to pay” if the U.S. State Department violates a long-standing deal barring the dictator from staying at the Libyan estate.

State department officials said no decision had been made on the issue.

A smack in the face of Lockerbie victims’ families — and all families who have lost loved ones to jihadi acts of evil:

“This is what happens when you have the path of appeasement,” said Susan Cohen, of Cape May Court House, N.J. “He’s getting everything he wants, and I guess that includes a trip to the state of New Jersey, which certainly doesn’t need this.”

Cohen’s 20-year-old daughter died in the plane bombing.

…”It’s very peaceful here and we’d like to keep it that way, but what can we do if the government lets him in,” said Bennie Wong, 58, who has lived across the street from the estate for 15 years.

Contact the State Department:

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#101

On August 25th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, Flyoverman said:

On August 25th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

I didn’t take my meds this morning…. See above.
#102

On August 25th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, Prince Consort said:

By all means, let him pitch his tent on the lawn. All the easier to send through a nice big herd of swine. SOO-EE!
#103

On August 25th, 2009 at 4:21 pm, Prince Consort said:

Or else zip him up in his tent with Rosie O’Donnell and a bottle of massage oil…
#104

On August 25th, 2009 at 4:26 pm, Flyoverman said:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_re_us/us_gadhafi_not_welcome

The natives are restless.

We should pull a play out of the leftist playbook. If he plans to pitch a tent, require him to submit an Environmental Impact Statememnt.
#105

On August 25th, 2009 at 5:36 pm, Cowboy said:

I’m surprised the President doesn’t ask him to stay in the Lincoln bedroom.
#106

On August 25th, 2009 at 7:47 pm, T-Bone said:

On August 25th, 2009 at 12:14 am, chapoutier said:
Sorry, but which administration lifted sanctions against Libya and normalized relations?

“The Libyan government has announced that it will pay $2.7 billion in compensation to the families of the 270 victims of the 1988 Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, including 189 Americans.[1] The compensation offer is expected to result in a UN Security Council resolution calling for the lifting of sanctions against Tripoli, which have been in place since 1992 (the sanctions were suspended in 1999 after Libya surrendered two officials indicted for organizing the Lockerbie bombing). The resolution is likely to be sponsored by Britain; the Bush Administration has indicated that it may abstain rather than oppose it.”

I believe that would be the U.N. (Universal Numbskulls)
#107

On August 25th, 2009 at 8:51 pm, starlightwoman said:

You know its bad when New Jersey won’t welcome you!
#108

On August 26th, 2009 at 9:56 am, chapoutier said:

I believe that would be the U.N. (Universal Numbskulls)

And Bush.

On May 15, 2006 the United States State Department announced it would fully restore diplomatic relations with Libya if it dismantled its weapons programs. The State Department also removed Libya from their state sponsored terrorism list which it had been on for 27 years. This move has also been attributed to the pressures of oil companies lobbying the Congress. In addition to that the fall of the Soviet power, the prominent role that Libya plays in the African Continent, and the assistance it could provide to the US in its war on terror are among the other considerations that were factored in.[41] In August 2008 a motion was introduced in the 110th Congress known as S 3370 or the “Libyan Claims Resolution Act” to exempt Libya from the infamous section 1083 clause of the National Defense Authorization Act. The motion passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate by unanimous consent, and is signed into law by President George W. Bush on 4 August. After Libya payed a final portion of $1.8 billion global settlement fund for American victims it became formally exempted from section 1083. Following that Libyan families received $300 million for casualties suffered due to the 1986 airstrikes led by the United States. In November the same year, the United States Senate confirmed Gene A. Cretz as the first US Ambassador to Libya in over 35 years. The final step in the process of rebuilding the relations between the two countries came in January 2009 when Ali Suleiman Aujali presented his letters of credentials to President George W. Bush as Ambassador Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary of Libya to the United States of America, and Gene A. Cretz presents his letter of credentials before the General People’s Congress; currently both are serving as Ambassadors to their respective countries.