Rice meets Gaddafi on historic Libya visit Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right meets with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, second left, in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Rice begins a four-nation tour of North Africa in Tripoli today, meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and other top officials in what the State Department is calling a landmark trip that will symbolize the opening of a new era in ties between the United States and the oil-rich country. Others are unidenti...