Former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed on Thursday, had a "slightly eerie obsession" with ex-US Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice, and referred to her as his "African Princess," she writes in an excerpt from her memoirs published on Thursday

The late Libyan leader met Rice in Libya in September 2008, a historic meeting that signalled the once pariah state''s return to the diplomatic table after decades of isolation, The Telegraph reports.