New Jersey town wants to ban Gadhafi from staying at local site

Officials are trying to prevent Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from staying in northern New Jersey when he visits the United States next month.

Libya is renovating a mansion that it bought in Englewood in 1982. People in the New York City suburb are riled by reports that Gadhafi may stay in a Bedouin tent on the property when he speaks at the United Nations.

State Rep. Steve Rothman, who represents Englewood, says officials should do everything they can to prevent Gadhafi from coming to town.

Gadhafi praised Scotland's decision last week to release the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pam Am 103, which killed 270 people.

Relatives of the American victims, some of whom live in New Jersey, expressed outrage.