Libya’s bizarre leader Gadhafi defiant to end

TRIPOLI, Libya — In flow­ing brown Bedouin robes and black beret, hailed as the “king of kings of Africa,” the aging dic­ta­tor swept up onto the global stage, cen­ter front at the United Nations, and deliv­ered an angry, wan­der­ing, at times inco­her­ent dia­tribe against all he detested in the world.