UP Ibalon Bicol

I watched the incoherent speech of Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Khadafy in front of the United Nations Assembly in New York. The 90-minute spectacle was as bizarre as it was disappointing.

Just like the vile Islamic Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who shamelessly peddled lies and depravity in a separate speech in the august world body, I couldn’t imagine such mumbling had to be witnessed in the United Nations. The intelligence of the whole civilized world had been insulted again---this time by a desert loon, said some observers. In a brown ethnic garb and with a camel gaze in his eyes, Khadafy rambled and ranted as if he was out of his mind.

In exhaustion, the interpreter for the Libyan leader ended up surrendering his job. The exasperated language expert couldn’t handle the situation any longer--- forcing another interpreter to take over. U.N.’s Arabic section chief, Rasha Ajalyaqeen had to take charge in the last 20 minutes to put the bizarre speaker’s message in English.

Throughout Khadafy's speech which went beyond the usual time, the interpreters struggled with irrational theories of the Kennedy assignation and swine flu among others that was embarrassingly off tangent from sanity. They said Khadafy who expressed his desire to see Barack Obama to president for life, repeated some of what he was said and in some occasion talked to himself. (Photo Credit: NY Daily News/ Roca/ Getty) =0=

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