Libya's Moammar Gadhafi talks during a debate on the sidelines ...

NASSER NASSER | published: February 27, 2011

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi talks during a debate on the sidelines of celebrations marking the 30-year anniversary of the declaration of the "jamahiriya," or "rule of the masses, in Sabha, Libya Friday, March 2, 2007. Gadhafi said in an unusual debate Friday it was time for his long-isolated nation to open up to the world and that one day it won't need him as leader. Still, he touted the ruling ideology he has entrenched here for three decades as superior to Western democracy.