LIBYA: Game on

From: Middle East | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Luxner, Larry; Badcock, James | Copyright information

Trade cooperation between Libya and the United States was suspended in 1986. But now with the new rapprochement brought about by Colonel Gadaffi's announcement that he would abandon all attempts to develop weapons of mass destruction, the Americans are back in force. Larry Luxner reports from Washington.

THERE'S NO LIBYAN EMBASSY IN Washington, and the US Interests section in Tripoli consists of a three-man team operating out of a hotel room. Yet as Colonel Muammar GadafK remakes his i...

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