The least that can be said In his book "My Years, My Memoirs", published by "Al-Farajani" publishing house, Abdel Rahman Shalgham, the Libyan Foreign Minister during Gaddafi's era, recounts the details of what he described as the "battle of weapons of mass destruction", which ended with the Jamahiriya abandoning those weapons, which were transported by a giant American aircraft to the United States. Shalgham says: "December 19, 2003, was one of the longest days of my life. It was the culmination of a journey fraught with tensions and booby-trapped with surprises, as Gaddafi rejected an American-British proposal for him to appear directly on Libyan television to announce Libya's complete abandonment of its nuclear, chemical, and long-range missile program, with US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair then coming out to welcome what was stated in his remarks, fearing a trap set for him, saying: This is a dangerous conspiracy through which they aim to obtain an official confession from me of possessing weapons of mass destruction, so that they can then carry out military action against us." Gaddafi suggested that videos be recorded by the three presidents, to be broadcast in order on television screens in the three countries, but the Americans and British strongly rejected the proposal. Shalgham says that after strenuous communications during which we were exhausted and felt anxious about reaching a dead end, Gaddafi told us: "Tell them that we have water, flour, and fire, but we didn't make bread." Gaddafi's face brightened when Shalgham jokingly recalled what the poet Abu Nuwas said to those who arrested him while he was carrying a pot for making wine, and he was told: We will impose the punishment for drinking wine on you. He told them: I am carrying the tools for making wine, but I have not made it. Therefore, the punishment for adultery should be imposed on all of you because you are carrying its tools and have not committed adultery, considering that possessing the "tools" does not necessarily mean the occurrence of the "crime." This is an approximate picture of the behind-the-scenes of the heated negotiations that the United States conducts with its enemies, sometimes through dialogue, and sometimes through fire. While Trump announces that his negotiators have reached "good results" during negotiations they are conducting with "sane" Iranian officials, Tehran denied those negotiations, indicating that they are limited only to the exchange of messages presented to them by mediators that included "15 points", and that it responded with "5 points". However, Trump hinted at the channel of the Iranian Parliament Speaker "Baqer Qalibaf", a name that means "carpet weaver" in Persian. Amidst these confusing statements, in which promises are mixed with threats, it is leaking from the behind-the-scenes of the mediators' meetings in Islamabad that an American delegation, headed by a person of Iranian origin, will hold negotiations tomorrow with Iranian officials in Tehran, which would defuse the explosion, by carrying out a "clearing" between the messages of the two parties, during which a fragile truce similar to the Gaza truce will be reached, to avoid sliding into undesirable consequences as the April 6 deadline approaches. No one knows when the continuous "finger-biting" game will stop between the "real estate developer" who is rushing like a train off the tracks, and the "carpet weaver" who threads the threads with tense fingers. The chances of success of Islamabad's efforts, which Beijing joined yesterday, are equal to the risks of failure, but that does not prevent trying by calling on Trump to stop adventuring, as came in the appeal of the Egyptian President to him the day before yesterday, sensing the immense dangers threatening the region and the world if he continues his raging momentum.
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"We didn't make bread"!