Gadhafi slams Security Council in 1st UN visit

• UNITED NATIONS – In his first U.N. appearance, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi issued a slashing attack on the Security Council and chastised the world body on Wednesday for failing to intervene or prevent some 65 wars since the U.N. was founded in 1945.
• Gadhafi called for reform of the council — abolishing the veto power of the five permanent members — or expanding the body with additional member states to make it more representative.
• “It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the “terror council,” he said.
• The veto-wielding Security Council powers — the United States, Britain, China, France and Russia — treat smaller countries as “second class, despised” nations, Gadhafi said.

(Gadhafi’s no saint, but he’s right on there.)