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 TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Venezuela's anti-American president was given a warm welcome in the Libyan capital Wednesday by Col. Moammar Gadhafi, whose authoritarian regime was removed only this week from Washington's list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
Gadhafi, his face partly covered by a large brown scarf draped over his Arab tribal robe, looked on as President Hugo Chavez shook hands with waiting officials at a VIP arrival terminal. The building was scarred with bullet holes. Some crenelated concrete at the top had been blasted away, perhaps damaged in U.S. airstrikes more than two decades ago.
Chavez, whose country was placed under a U.S. arms embargo two days ago, stopped to chat with some of those waiting to greet him as a band played the national anthems of both oil-rich countries.
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