A Blog by the Editor of The Middle East Journal

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Ahmadinejad Cancels Libya Trip

An awkward situation has been defused since Mahmud Ahmadinejad has cancelled his planned trip to the African Union summit in Libya. Qadhafi had apparently invited the Iranian leader without consulting the other African leaders, which made for considerable awkwardness and threatened to wreck the conference. Ahmadinejad has apparently cancelled the trip; he's looking for endorsements, not tension.

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