'Why Don't You Send Megrahi Back to Scotland, and Then Maybe We Can Work Something Out'

Looks like Colonel Khadafy is being warmly welcomed to New York.

Keep on moving, Moammar.

Agents for the terrorist-coddling Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy were met with a strong-arm from a real-estate broker they approached to rent a posh Upper East Side townhouse for his visit to the city this week.

The broker, with characteristic New York chutzpah, told them to take a hike back to the desert.

"They kept asking, 'What would be the price? What would be the price?' I thought about it and said, 'Why don't you send Megrahi back to Scotland, and then maybe we can work something out.' They hung up on me immediately," said Jason Haber, a broker for Prudential Douglas Elliman.

Haber was referring to convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was released from prison in Scotland last month with terminal cancer and greeted with a hero's welcome in Tripoli that Khadafy orchestrated.

Uproar over the release has made it hard for Khadafy to find a place to set up his Bedouin tent while in town for the UN General Assembly.

Residents of Englewood, NJ, had already rejected his plan to stay at a home the Libyan Mission owns there, so diplomats approached Haber about the swank rental pad he was peddling at 5 E. 78th St.

"They were very rude on the phone, and I asked who it was for. They said it was for a high-ranking member of the Libyan delegation, and they said there would be high security," he said.

"It sounded more and more to me as we spoke that this was for Khadafy."

Meanwhile, his visit is already going to the dogs. Literally.

A politically incorrect pooch delivered a stream of consciousness protest Saturday as Libyan officials rolled out the red carpet for dictator Moammar Khadafy.

Maggie the dog was out for a walk when she responded to the pomp by taking a pee on the lush rug outside the Libyan Mission - a gesture appreciated by many New Yorkers with little use for the notorious colonel.

"The dog had excellent taste," said Mark Birnbaum, 57, a Mission neighbor who watched the whole thing. "She's a sweetheart."

Aggravated Libyan officials were forced to cut away a section of the carpet that stretched across the E. 48th St. sidewalk from the curbs to the steps.

Perhaps wherever the mini-Hitler from Iran shows up that pooch can drop the decue wherever he's staying.

Via Dinah Lord.