Gadafi New AU Chairman

The latest news is that Muammar Gadhafi has been elected chairman of the 53 nation state of the African Union(AU). I mean, this is a self proclaimed pan-arab. This is also a man who has had a controversial relationship with the west that has lasted for decades due to his terrorist activities/associations. I have read a few sources that say he pumps money into the impoverished subsaharan region and has supported political uprisings in countries like Liberia. I look at the picture, the good and the bad of the information I know about this man, and I am left with an unsatisfying feeling in my stomach. Sometimes I am not sure in just whose side he's on. Anyway, I hope the feeling is just what it is, a feeling.