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Some world leaders due to attend this week’s UN General Assembly in New York are not exactly welcome in western countries. One of them is Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi, also known as “Leader and Guide of the Revolution.” According to ABC News, residents of a New Jersey neighborhood recently protested the possibility of Gaddafi staying on a property there owned by the Libyan embassy. So he tried to rent a mansion in the Bronx instead. We talk with John Fitzgerald, the developer of Villanova Heights where Gaddafi hoped to stay.

• 64th session of the UN General Assembly
• ABC News story