NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has canceled plans to visit Englewood, N.J., where residents intended to protest his presence, authorities said.
Gadhafi had planned to stay in a Bedouin-style tent on the grounds of a mansion owned by his country's United Nation's mission, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
Gadhafi, instead, will stay in Manhattan next month during his trip to New York to address the U.N . General Assembly, diplomatic sources told The New York Times in a story reported Saturday.
Englewood residents, including the mayor, vowed to block Gadhafi's stay after Libyan officials gave a hero's welcome to Abul Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the man convicted of bombing Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Megrahi, purportedly dying of cancer, was released from prison last weekend in Scotland and allowed to return to Libya.
The Libyan Consulate in New York was not available for comment, the Times reported.
