Barack Obama has pledged $400,000 taxpayer dollars to charities run by the family of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi just a month after Gadhafi gave released Pan Am 103 Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Megrahi a hero’s welcome home and the two shared a warm embrace.
The money would be divided between two foundations run by the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. A $200,000 share is set to go to the Gadhafi Development Foundation, which is run by Gadhafi’s son, Saif, and another $200,000 are to go to Wa Attassimou, an organization run by Muammar Gadhafi’s daughter, Aisha.
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The Gadhafi Development Foundation is described by the BBC as “a charity which tries to project a new and positive image of Libya.”
In past Presidential gift news, the UK’s Gordon Brown got a DVD boxed set that he couldn’t use on players in his region, and the Queen got an IPod filled with Obama speeches.
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