No, this is no joke. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is traveling to Libya next week to receive the "Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights" next week. Previous recipients of the prize include Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.
I don't know what's worse: that the author of the Lockerbie bombing, which killed all 243 passengers and 16 crew members on Pan Am Flight 103, is handing out human rights prizes, or, that the Prime Minister of Turkey has agreed to receive an award from this monster.
And just when I was beginning to think that there could be no prize more foolish than the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Obama . . . .
[Earlier this week, Erdogan was given a leadership prize by the Union of Arab Banks, while visiting Lebanon and engaging in veiled threats against Israel. Meanwhile, Armenians in Beirut - there are 150,000 Armenians living in Lebanon -rioted in response to Erdogan's visit. Perhaps Erdogan is indeed richly qualified to receive the Gaddafi prize.]
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pausing from the data dump festival (waiting for inevitable echo of the Zbig's malicious suggestion of document seeding by unspecified foreign intel services while citing Erdogan and Turkey on PBS just now)...will Qaddafi's blonde nurse be at his side during the ceremony?
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