'I love her very much': Photographs found in Gaddafi lair of Condoleezza Rice, the tyrant's 'darling black African woman'

By Andrew Malone, Vanessa Allen and Paul Bentley

 

 

A bizarre photograph album filled page to page with pictures of Condoleezza Rice has been found at the compound of Colonel Gaddafi.

As citizens ransacked the sprawling lair, for the first time discovering the extent of riches enjoyed by their bloodthirsty tyrant, a number of unusual items have been looted.

Perhaps the most surprising, however, was the album, filled with glossy pictures of America's former Secretary of State.

 
Bizarre: Rebels show off the album featuring former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, found in Colonel Gaddafi's residence, Bab Al Aziziya

Bizarre: Rebels show off the album featuring former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, found in Colonel Gaddafi's residence, Bab Al Aziziya

Colonel Gaddafi had previously hinted at a serious admiration for Miss Rice.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera television in 2007, where he hinted that then-President George W. Bush's top diplomat wielded considerable influence in the Arab world.

'I support my darling black African woman,' he said at the time. 'I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. ... Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. ... I love her very much. I admire her, and I'm proud of her, because she's a black woman of African origin.'

The following year, Gaddafi and Rice had an opportunity to meet when the secretary of state paid a historic visit to Libya - one that made steps toward normalising relations after the United States went decades without an ambassador in Tripoli.

 
In person: Gaddafi met Condoleezza Rice in 2008 and insisted on calling her 'leezza'

In person: Gaddafi met Condoleezza Rice in 2008 and insisted on calling her 'leezza'

 

 
Cosy: The pair met in Tripoli on September 5, 2008 - an occasion thought at the time to have signified reconciliation with the former enemy state

Cosy: The pair met in Tripoli on September 5, 2008 - an occasion thought at the time to have signified reconciliation with the former enemy state

She said during the trip that the U.S. 'doesn't have any permanent enemies.'

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