(ANSAmed) - ROME, APRIL 16 - There is a honeymoon feeling about relations between Muammar Gaddafi and Barack Obama. The former arch-enemy of the USA, who is today a 'convert' following several years of 'unwinding the tension' with the West, has spoken in praise of the political "wisdom" of the US president for his pursuing peace for a world without nuclear arms. On the day following the ambitious mega-summit in Washington on nuclear disarmament, Gaddafi has called on "the whole world" to "give Obama time" and to "support his plans for peace". "We shall place our trust in our son Baraka (which means 'good fortune' in Arabic) and, if he continues following these wise and peaceful policies, we shall help and support him", he promised. This is not the first time that Gaddafi has lavished praised on the first black president in the history of the USA. But today is no normal day in Libya. The country's leader was speaking in Sirte, the city of his birth, to mark the anniversary of the US bombardment of Tripoli and Bengasi on April 14 1986. The raid was ordered by the then US president Ronald Reagan, who had decided to punish the Colonel for the attack a few days earlier - attributed to Libyan agents - at Berlin's 'La Belle' discotheque, which was packed with US military personnel at the time. On that April 14, an adoptive daughter of Gaddafi died under the bombs. And, as has recently emerged, the Colonel only managed to save himself thanks to 'a warning' issued, a few hours beforehand, by Italian politicians Craxi and Andreotti. On that night, taking shelter in a bunker, Gaddafi swore eternal war with the United States. But as the years have passed things have changed. And rapprochement with the United States had already begun during the last years of the Bush Jr. presidency. (ANSAmed).
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