As far as I am aware the bombing campaign Mandela supported, was never meant to attack civilians but infrastructure. Mandela was a fighter long before he was a forgiver, but it was the fact that he fought and was then able to reconcile with his enemies that defined his legacy.
The Qaddafi thing was at a time when international relations were on the up with regards Libya. Qaddafi was moving away from the Arab nationalism stuff towards what he considered 'pan-africanism'. I think he was a founding member of the African Union. Plus he was handing out a lot of aid money to other African nations at the time. A number of years later we also had the meeting of Qaddafi and Blair in a desert tent.
One man's terrorist another man's freedom fighter and all that jazz.
The Qaddafi thing was at a time when international relations were on the up with regards Libya. Qaddafi was moving away from the Arab nationalism stuff towards what he considered 'pan-africanism'. I think he was a founding member of the African Union. Plus he was handing out a lot of aid money to other African nations at the time. A number of years later we also had the meeting of Qaddafi and Blair in a desert tent.
One man's terrorist another man's freedom fighter and all that jazz.
