“Don’t worry about the tsetse fly and the mosquito. They are God’s armies, which will protect us against colonialists. If they come here they will get malaria and sleeping sickness.”
Libya’s leader, Colonel Mu’ammer Gaddafi, speaking to the African Union summit in Maputo, Mozambique, last weekend (The Times, London, 14 July)
“I think that was a fundamental mistake.”
Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix on the assertion made by Tony Blair to the UK parliament in September 2002 that Iraq was capable of delivering biological or chemical weapons within 45 minutes (The Independent on Sunday, London, 13 July)
“Salmon has never been used for clothing before,…
