Kadafi Answers Maryland Woman’s Letter on Peace
BLADENSBURG, Md. — Elizabeth Delea, an avid letter writer, mailed a peace letter to Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi’s wife and said today she received an answer from the colonel himself.
A newspaper photo of Kadafi’s wife, Safia, sobbing--apparently over the death of her child in the bombing--prompted her to write, Delea said.
Delea asked Safia Kadafi to ask her husband to work for peace, not war.
The letter Delea received from the Libyan leader, however, thanked Delea for condemning “American barbarian aggression against” Libya.
Delea said she wrote nothing of the sort in her letter, and said she only wanted to let the Kadafis know that Americans are not interested in war.
“It was a propaganda letter, but then what else should I expect?” she said.
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