G'dafi's gaffe

From my dictionary -

gaffe also gaff n.

A clumsy social error; a faux pas: “The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe, a breach of sensibility and good taste” (Mary McCarthy).

A blatant mistake or misjudgment.
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Two news items today, taken together, evoked a laugh which I'd like to share with you. It is all about Sudan, Darfur and Chad, and about Moamar G'dafi - who is always good for either a laugh or a cry!

The first item reported the conclusion of a mini-summit between Chad and Sudan, hosted by Libya, at which they agreed to reduce tensions by normalizing relations and barring rebel activities from each other's territories.

"The meeting, hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and attended by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Chad's Idriss Deby in addition to the presidents of Burkina Faso, Central Africa and Congo Brazzaville Denis Sassou Nguesso, the new chairman of the African Union, ended late night Wednesday with the declaration of the so-called "Libya Accord."

The second news item concerned a U.N. report that "arms from Eritrea, Chad and Libya were finding their way into Sudan's troubled western Darfur region, despite a UN embargo."

The report says that the 2004 arms embargo on Sudan had been repeatedly violated by neighbouring countries, who have continued to arm the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). The report continued: 'There have been numerous reports that the rebel groups receive financial, political and other material support from Chad, Eritrea and the Libyan Jamahiria..."

Oh, I should have told you, after the conference, Libya's Gadhafi was reported as saying that "resorting to arms for settling African conflicts has become unacceptable."

Right!