Moammar Gadhafi

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Qaddafi Cheesed at Swiss Over Son's Arrest

Diplomats, businesses under fire in Libya after Hannibal detained for Geneva assault

(Newser) - Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is waging a diplomatic, business and public-relations offensive against Switzerland, the Times of London reports, in response to the July 15 arrest of his son Hannibal in the assault of a Geneva hotel worker. Qaddafi has closed Swiss offices and expelled diplomats, apparently organizing a boisterous...

Gadhafi Has a Little Advice for Obama
Gadhafi Has
a Little Advice
for Obama
Jun 12, 2008 11:09 AM CDT

Gadhafi Has a Little Advice for Obama

Libyan leader slams candidate for speech on Israel

(Newser) - Muammar Gadhafi shot off his infamously intemperate mouth at Barack Obama yesterday, berating the candidate for saying Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel, and suggesting that he might have an inferiority complex because of his African origins. Either the candidate is ignorant of international politics, the Libyan leader...

Libyan Town Exports Grim Crop: Suicide Bombers

Reporter travels to Darnah to uncover insurgents' motives

(Newser) - American intelligence has long known that the bulk of foreign combatants waging jihad in Iraq are Saudi nationals, but Libya is a close second, with much higher per capita representation. Documents found in Sinjar, Iraq, showed 112 fighters in a group of 606 were Libyan, and 52 came from Darnah,...

French Divided on Qaddafi Trip
French Divided on Qaddafi Trip
Dec 12, 2007 4:38 PM CST

French Divided on Qaddafi Trip

Critics see too much carrot, not enough stick during Libyan leader's highly visible visit

(Newser) - Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s visit to Paris continues to raise questions as to whether the French president sold out by dealing with the dictator, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Activists and some government officials say President Nicolas Sarkozy ignored Libya’s dismal human-rights record in favor of business, but...

Sarkozy Sits Down With Qadaffi
Sarkozy Sits Down With Qadaffi
Dec 10, 2007 4:48 PM CST

Sarkozy Sits Down With Qadaffi

Human rights groups criticize French prez for meeting with Libyan leader

(Newser) - Muammar Qaddafi arrived in France today for his first visit in 30-plus years as human rights groups blasted Nicolas Sarkozy for agreeing to meet with the Libyan leader, AFP reports. The French president is preparing to to sign 10 billion euros' worth of contracts with Libya, which activists say is...

Sudan Declares Truce at Darfur Peace Talks

But two top factions aren't there, and a third has doubts

(Newser) - Sudan declared a ceasefire at Darfur peace talks today, but two top factions weren't there to hear it, and one other met the pledge with suspicion. “The government has said several times since 2004 that they observed a ceasefire,” said one rebel leader. “We have our doubts....

US Envoy Visits Libya; Rice May Be Next

Rice would be first secretary of state to visit since 1953

(Newser) - A leading State Department official has arrived in Libya, laying the groundwork for a probable visit by Condoleezza Rice later in the year. The envoy, David Welch, will discuss improvements to US-Libyan relations and compensation for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the BBC reports. Since 2003, when the Gaddafi...

Libya Admits to Torturing Medics
Libya Admits to Torturing Medics
Aug 10, 2007 5:07 AM CDT

Libya Admits to Torturing Medics

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi's son burnished his pro-Western image yesterday by admitting that Libya had tortured 5 nurses and a doctor once accused of spreading HIV among children, the AP reports. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi conceded that the "Benghazi six" were electrocuted and threatened after their 1999 imprisonment, but he did not...

Libya Clinches European Arms Deal
Libya Clinches European
Arms Deal
Aug 4, 2007 9:11 AM CDT

Libya Clinches European Arms Deal

Sarkozy yields to probe of ties to Gadhafi, Belgian nurses

(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy submitted yesterday to calls for an inquiry over the weapons and  nuclear technology deal just finalized with Libya, says the Financial Times. Sarkozy flew to Tripoli to shake on the deal last week, just days after Libya's release of six Bulgarian nurses. Under the agreement, Libya will buy...

Sarko Cuts Nuke Deal With Gaddafi
Sarko Cuts
Nuke Deal
With Gaddafi
Jul 26, 2007 12:06 PM CDT

Sarko Cuts Nuke Deal With Gaddafi

French prez seeks to bolster ties with erstwhile pariah

(Newser) - French president Nicolas Sarkozy met with reformed outcast Muammar al-Gaddafi today, just one day after Libya released five Bulgarian nurses and one doctor in an effort to shed the country's rogue image. Sarkozy clinched a number of ventures  with the newly open economy, including a deal to build a nuclear...

Meddlesome Mme. Sarkozy Jeopardized Talks on Medics

First Lady hogged credit after liberation

(Newser) - The wife of the new French president gatecrashed delicate negotiations to free six foreign medical workers from a Libyan prison, then hogged the credit, Der Spiegel reports. After EU diplomats secured their release, Cecilia Sarkozy flew to Tripoli and escorted them to Bulgaria—making it appear she had won their...

BP Snags Libyan Gas Fields
BP Snags Libyan Gas Fields
May 30, 2007 10:00 AM CDT

BP Snags Libyan Gas Fields

North Africa is looking more attractive to big business—especially the oil business

(Newser) - The deal BP made with Libya this week for rights to huge gas fields demonstrates the new attraction North Africa has for investors. Once controlled by what Business Week calls "pariahs and basket cases," the area now looks stable (compared to the Middle East, that is) and is...

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