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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Not taking any chances, several New Jersey

officials today told a gathering in Englewood that they don't want Libyan leader

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to pitch his tent next to the city's largest yeshiva during

next month's U.N. visit.

"Mr. Qadaffi is not welcome in New Jersey," said Gov. Corzine, joined by, among

others, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, Englewood Mayor

Michael Wildes and Councilman Robert Agresta.

Amid plans for today's demonstration, the State Department announced that the

Libyan government has bowed to the wishes of officials in Englewood and across

the state, and that Qaddafi would stay somewhere else. But politicians stuck to

their plan and underscored their point this morning on East Palisade Avenue,

outside the Libyan estate.

Rabbi Shmuley

Boteach, for one, was

pleased.

"Englewood is a

terrorist free zone

because of the

grassroots efforts of thecommunity and our

bold politicians," said

Boteach, the event's

host, who lives right

next door to the Libyan

estate.

"This rally proved that when you are on the side of democracy and what is

fundamentally right, you can make a difference," added Bergen County Sheriff

Leo McGuire.

Rothman said President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton convinced the

Libyan government it wasn't worth the grief -- not with Mayor Michael Wildesinviting what scores of people to today's protest. (See: Qaddafi not coming to

Englewood)

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the Libyans "will have suitable

accommodations and that they will respect the earnest wishes of the people of the

region."

Within days, teapot tempests stirred over whether the U.S. should accommodate

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the renounced terror supporter or find a way to keep the former "mad dog of the

Middle East" off American soil -- especially in a town with a large Orthodox

Jewish population.

Qaddafi is coming to September's opening of the United Nations General

Assembly for the first time since a coup swept him to power 40 years ago. The

timing wasn't the best -- not after last week's parole of a terminally-ill Lockerbie

bomber whom Qaddafi embraced upon his return.

A former

supporter of

terrorism

who has

since

renounced it,

Qaddafi had

planned to

stay at the

Libyan-owned estate, where workers were busy this week erecting an

air-conditioned tent to greet visitors.

They also cleared the overgrowth surrounding the neglected mansion -- once

known as Thunder Rock -- and were installing a black metal fence around the

compound along with the tent.

Qaddafi has given up his weapons, accepted responsibility for supportingbombings that killed hundreds and restored diplomatic ties with the United States

and the United Nations.

In a world where "fighting" terrorism hasn't been very successful, the opportunity

to open channels of communication at least has the potential to dramatically

change the landscape.

But for many -- including several who attended today's event -- he will remain the

man Ronald Reagan once called the mad dog of the Middle East. To the families

of those killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the $10 million they

accepted from the Libyan government for each victim apparently is nothing more

than blood money.

Terrorists and state sponsors of terror like Qaddafi should not be allowed in this

country other than to be prosecuted for them crimes," said former New York City

Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik. "The U.S. Department of State should

aggressively restrict the movement of Qaddafi and those like him to the U.N. and

at the conclusion of the General Assembly, they should be put back on a plane

and to where they came from.

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