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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 08:42 PM
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Bush Negotiates W/ State Sponsor of Terrorism, Bows to Demands
Please, Sen Kerry--or someone with a platform--bring up this little teensy weensy flip-flop:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3674538.stm

US President George Bush has lifted his country's trade embargo on Libya as a reward for Tripoli's decision to give up weapons of mass destruction.

Most of the sanctions were suspended in April, when Libya announced it was abandoning its weapons programme.

Libya is now expected to pay more than $1bn in compensation to the families of the victims of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988.

However, the US is keeping several terrorism-related sanctions in place.

Libya which has acknowledged responsibility for the bombing over Lockerbie in Scotland, had threatened to cancel compensation payments if the sanctions had not been lifted by Wednesday
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