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African Violate. Muammar Qaddafi, exploiting the Gulf crisis and the ensuing surge in “militant pan-Islamic sentiments in Africa,” has revived his push for control over the continent’s sub-Saharan nations. That according to a new study by the House Republican Research Committee’s task force on terrorism, chaired by Florida’s Bill McCollum (R.).

Qaddafi’s immediate goal, the report says, is “to consolidate a radical African bloc” of Libya, next-door Chad (whose President Habre was overthrown in December with Libyan assistance), Burkina Faso, and Sudan, with “efforts being made to convince (coerce) Niger and Mah to join the bloc.” Next, Libya will move to expand the coalition by adding Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroon, and Senegal through subversion and “destabilization.” Once, somebody might have destabilized him first, but that was in the days when we had a CIA. Fortunately, we still have the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

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African Violate. Muammar Qaddafi, exploiting the Gulf crisis and the ensuing surge in “militant pan-Islamic sentiments in Africa,” has revived his push for control over the continent’s sub-Saharan nations. That according to a new study by the House Republican Research Committee’s task force on terrorism, chaired by Florida’s Bill McCollum (R.).

Qaddafi’s immediate goal, the report says, is “to consolidate a radical African bloc” of Libya, next-door Chad (whose President Habre was overthrown in December with Libyan assistance), Burkina Faso, and Sudan, with “efforts being made to convince (coerce) Niger and Mah to join the bloc.” Next, Libya will move to expand the coalition by adding Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroon, and Senegal through subversion and “destabilization.” Once, somebody might have destabilized him first, but that was in the days when we had a CIA. Fortunately, we still have the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.