Libya Seeks Reward for Nuke Inspections

[pinto]

NEW YORK -- Libya's prime minister said his country wants to be rewarded for opening up to nuclear inspections and stressed that the United States must lift sanctions by May 12 or his government won't have to pay $6 million to each family of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims, according to an interview published Friday. <snip>

In August, Libya agreed to accept responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. It has paid the families of the 270 victims $4 million each so far. That led the United Nations to lift sanctions on Sept. 12.

Libya promised to pay another $4 million if the United States lifts its own sanctions against Libya and another $2 million if Libya is removed from the State Department's list of countries sponsoring terrorism within eight months.


http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-libya-us,0,2148262.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[madrchsod]

1. nothing like making

a deal with the devil but who`s the devil? i get the feeling that both sides won`t get what they wanted..

[louis-t]

2. Let's see how b*sh admin spins this

the ONLY reason Libya is going this direction is for financial gain. Not because Qaddafi is afraid. He knows if he pays a certain amount to the victims' families and gets sanctions lifted, he will take in many times the cost in increased revenues. But he will play games for years before this all happens. He has his moment in the spotlight now that Hussein is gone and he will milk it for all it's worth. IMO Qaddafi is less afraid of b*sh than of the 3 previous presidents. Otherwise, he wouldn't be negotiating.

[pinto]

3. that Berlesconi float about a phone call from Kahdaffi sure came and went

awfully fast.

Yeah, the spin on this, if any, will be interesting.

And, as we know, a lot can happen in 5 months........

[jonnyo]

4. easy money for lybian thug

Easy money for Kadafi. He knows how to play these intellectually defunked GOP rubes like a fiddle. Kadafi doesn't have squat for WMD simply because they make horrible combat weapons, they're very expensive, and what's the point. The claim that Libya was about to import the buzzworded "centrifuges" is from a totally unsubstantiated, totally Top Secret source and is backed up by absolutely nothing but a giant, Take Our Word for It, from some "unnamed, administration official.

Talks with Libya have been going on for over a decade. One small problem in the past has always been that the US wanted Kadafi to ACTUALLY start acting like a civilized human being.

These thugs will do oil business with anyone and you can murder who you like. They could care less as evidenced by the truckloads of business these rapists do with Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, China, Columbia, El Salvador, etc. etc. It just makes Shrubs doctrine of Preemption look like its actually working if Bush's state dept starts paying off Kadafi (with your tax dollar) to make some BS speeches about not developing what he's not developing anyway.

[Cannikin]

5. Consider the promises that were probably made..

to Libya in exchange for co-operation, but just like our reward for catching Saddam that we promised the Iraqi's, we'll weasel out of giving Libya anything.

[stickdog]

6. Khadafy: "Bush's attack of Iraq made me disarm!"

"Now can I have my 100 million dollars, please?"

[0007]

7. Wasn't that what this scam was all about?

The U.S. and Libya a partner in crime to make junior look like a fucking hero to the mindless American FAUX watch viewers.