Moammar Gadhafi plans to kick it in Englewood

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been lining up caterers, bands and folk dancers for a weekend-long bash next month in northern New Jersey to celebrate his first trip to the U.S.

Construction crews have been busy landscaping the 4.7-acre estate in Englewood by clearing all trees within a 7-mile radius, creating a barren landscape so Gadhafi will feel at home. Workers also have been making repairs to a 25-room mansion on the property in advance of the Terror from Tripoli’s arrival in September, although Gadhafi has said he’ll stay in a tent on the front lawn.

“We make, how you say, Playboy mansion for east,” Libyan Ambassador to the U.S. Ali Aujali said in an interview. “The colonel request a private grotto filled with babaghanuj for him to know very better these easy women you call Jersey girls.”

VIPs from Gov. Jon Corzine to next-door neighbor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach have been invited to the party that also will honor Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who recently was released from prison for bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

“We will kick it so hard it will make those gatherings P. Diddy has in the Hamptons look like a kids’ pizza party at Chuck E. Cheese,” Gadhafi’s website said. “And don’t miss my son, Hannibal, spinning the block rockin’ beats of a one-stringed violin and bamboo flute.”

Gadhafi, who despite rising to power during a coup in 1969 and acting as figurehead of the North African country for the past 40 years has been unable to rise above the rank of colonel, has told aides he also wants to win a framed Van Halen mirror at the Point Pleasant boardwalk.