Kadafi Meets With Farrakhan Deputy
Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi has met in Tripoli with Akbar Mohamed, “the deputy” to the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam in the United States, the official Libyan news agency reported Thursday.
The dispatch by Jana said Mohamed delivered a message from the leader of the U.S. black Muslims “who is leading the battle of liberation and freedom from the racist suppression.”
“Louis Farrakhan confirmed the close cooperation between the ‘Muslim Nation’ in America and Libya in all fields and on all levels,” Jana said.
Farrakhan, a critic of Israel, was a prominent if controverial supporter of Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign in 1984.
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