Rebels made a surprising find amid the looting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's compound: a photo album filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.

Several scrapbooks devoted to the former professor, campaign adviser, national security adviser and secretary of state for George W. Bush were discovered. Rice visited Tripoli in 2008, and Gadhafi has spoken glowingly of her as a strong African woman.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told The Associated Press on Thursday she hadn’t seen pictures of the album, but called it "creepy."

“I think I don’t need to see the photos, but bizarre and creepy are good adjectives to describe much of Gadhafi’s behavior,” Nuland said. “It doesn't surprise me. It's deeply bizarre and deeply creepy, though, if it is as you described.”

The Libyan leader's comments about Rice over the years have raised a few eyebrows.

"I support my darling black African woman," he told Al-Jazeera television in 2007. "I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. ... Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. ... I love her very much. I admire her, and I'm proud of her, because she's a black woman of African origin."

During Rice's 2008 visit, Gadhafi presented Rice with a diamond ring, a lute, a locket with an engraved likeness of himself inside and an inscribed edition of "The Green Book," a personal political manifesto that explains his "Third Universal Theory for a new democratic society."