Blair, Gaddafi pledge to fight Al Qaeda

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20040325/wl_nm/libya_blair_dc

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Britain's Tony Blair (news - web sites) sealed Libya's return to the international fold on Thursday with an historic handshake for Muammar Gaddafi (news - web sites) and an agreement to fight al Qaeda together.

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... the pair symbolically shook hands for the cameras before vowing to work together to oppose militant Islamism.

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"In reaching out the hand of partnership today, we do not forget the past," he said. "But we do try in the light of the genuine changes happening to move beyond it."

Gains to British business from the diplomatic thaw were notched up even before Blair arrived. Oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell won a $200 million gas exploration deal with Libya.


Blair also announced that defense contractor BAE Systems would also clinch a major Libyan deal shortly and that a trade mission would visit Tripoli in April.

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[saigon68]

1. Poodle Fighting?

ridiculous!!!!

[Minstrel Boy]

2. I believe Qaddafi more than Blair.

Libya was the first country to issue an international arrest warrant for bin Laden. That was in 1998.

Meanwhile, in 1996, Britain's M15 attempted to assassinate Qaddafi in a motorcade, and to do so allied itself with bin Laden's Libyan assets.

Read Brisard & Dasquie's "Forbidden Truth."

[htuttle]

3. Indeed

I was just thinking about that. Incredibly ironic, isn't it.

(google 'David Shayler' for more...unless you are in the UK, in which case you aren't allowed to know about this, due to a D-Notice).