Mr. Colonel Gaddafi had formerly implicit at a serious appreciation for Miss Rice. In an interview with Al-Jazeera television three years back, where he implied that then President George W. Bush’s top diplomat exerted considerable influence in the Arab world. It now comes out, he apparently assembled.

They had a minion assemble the photo album of Ms. Rice. Which brings us to the matter at hand today, the ransacking of Colonel Qaddafi’s compound under way in Tripoli. From miss Condoleezza Rice side, who has charmed diplomats from Rome (the Italian foreign minister, Massimo D’Alema) to London (Foreign Minister Jack Straw of Britain) to Pictorial, Nova Scotia (the Canadian dip lo-hunk Peter McKay), perhaps the strangest of all has always been Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya. When the two lastly met a year later, in his famous tent that was set up inside the very compound now being ransacked and where the photo book was found, he reportedly gave her a diamond ring and a locket with his image etched inside.

Rebels going through the Qaddafi compound have unearthed the photo album stocked with Ms. Rice’s visage on every page. There she is, in one, smiling off to the side, her flip-do accented perfectly for the camera. And there she is in another, smiling next to you-know-who during that visit to Tripoli. He is wearing a flowing white robe with purple sash and Africa pin; she looks more businesslike in a gray pinstripe suit with white pearls, her flip-do having given way to a pageboy bob. ‘I support my darling black African woman,’ he said at the time.

‘I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. … Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. … I love her very much. I admire her, and I’m proud of her, because she’s a black woman of African origin.’ Crown offers this on Rice’s book: “In No Higher Honor.” Rice shares her unique perspective on the most consequential political, diplomatic, and security issues of the administration. In her own words, she describes the harrowing terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and chronicles her experience of appearing before the 9/11 Commission, for which she was broadly saluted for her grace and forthrightness. She also reveals new details about the contentious debates in the lead-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

Rice’s latest effort follows on last year’s “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family,” which told of her upbringing in segregation-era Birmingham, Ala., and the impact of her parents on her life. The following year, Gaddafi and Rice had an opportunity to meet when the secretary of state paid a historic visit to Libya – one that made steps toward normalizing relations after the United States went decades without an ambassador in Tripoli.