Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Muammar Gaddafi will struggle to find a new home,



Dictator, comes with jet, free to a good home



Muammar Gaddafi will struggle to find a new homewrites William Dobson.
For dictators, it is no longer easy to get away from it all. Just ask Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. As Libya's rebels surround him and NATO's no-fly zone shrinks his dominion to a sliver of real estate, he may be seriously contemplating his Plan E - exile, that is.The trouble is, Africa's so-called ''king of kings'' does not have many choices. Gaddafi's brutal treatment of Libyans would make him an unwelcome guest for any country that wants to have a semblance of a relationship with the US or much of Europe. No Asian nation wants the headache of a dictatorial diva.  
Advertisement: Story continues belowThirty-one African countries have signed on to the International Criminal Court, which probably would put Gaddafi at too much risk of ending up at The Hague. And most of his fellow Arab autocrats are hardly in a position to offer anyone a safe haven these days. Plus, if he chose a regime in his own backyard, there would be a good chance he would have to flee again - and no one likes to move twice.