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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (4103)	12/20/2003 9:40:53 AM
From: Edscharp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

"Will you also supplying us with articles about Jewish hatred of Christans or Jewish hatred of Arabs?" Gustave, you truly are a blithering moron. You have totally missed the point. Unlike you I DON'T post hate messages against ANYBODY. I respect Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus....everyone (except intolerant slugs like you). I don't use these message boards to post creepy demeaning slurs against people of faith. Do you understand this at all..or, are you just going to copy my post and paraphrase back to me again? Please do so. I would love to have unequivocal evidence of your inability to fathom even the simplest of notions.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (4103)	12/20/2003 12:03:36 PM
From: Edscharp	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 22250

Libya seeks reward for scrapping banned weapons smh.com.au December 21, 2003 Libya made it clear yesterday it wanted to come in from the cold after decades as a pariah state and Britain and the United States pledged to reward its decision to abandon its banned weapons programs. Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, which Britain said had been close to making an atomic bomb, opened the prospect of an end to sanctions and the possible return of US oil companies with its pledge yesterday to stop seeking weapons of mass destruction. But some US officials cautioned that Libya's move, the culmination of secret negotiations that began just before the US-led Iraq war and announced less than a week after US forces captured Saddam Hussein, still left it too early to say when and if Washington will lift sanctions. "Libya wants to solve all problems and we want to focus on development and advancing our country. This program does not benefit our people or country," Foreign Minister Mohamed Abderrhmane Chalgam told Al Jazeera television. "We want to have ties with America and Britain because this is in the interest of our people," Chalgam said in the first televised comments on Tripoli's move by a top Libyan official. The Libyan announcement came ahead of tomorrow's 15th anniversary of the Christmas bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people. Libya escaped broader UN-imposed international sanctions earlier this year after accepting responsibility for the attack and paying out billions to the families of victims. Washington left its sanctions in place, citing suspicions Tripoli was seeking biological and chemical weapons. "We have begun to solve the Lockerbie problems," Chalgam said. The US bans most economic activity and bars citizens from travelling to Libya on US passports without government permission. Washington last month renewed this passport restriction for a year but said it would review the matter every three months. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw praised Gaddafi today, saying on BBC radio: "He needs to be applauded in unqualified terms for what he has done. I believe it is very statesmanlike and courageous." US officials said Libya's nuclear program was "much further advanced" than believed, and it had acknowledged cooperating with North Korea to develop Scud missiles. But while a senior Bush Administration official said Libya was moving "in the right direction", when sanctions might end was too early to determine. "We are at the start. The Libyans want to work with the United States, but we take it one step at a time," the official told Reuters. "We will work with them as long as they are genuine in their initiative. We're not at the point of discussing how this affects the sanctions regime." Lifting sanctions could allow US oil companies back into Libya, where US firms were at one time producing more than 1 million barrels per day and where oil facilities could be enhanced to reach 2 million bpd within five years, according to the US Department of Energy. A US official said Libya approached the United States and Britain in mid-March and this led to visits to weapons sites in October and early December by US and British teams. A US official said Libya had acknowledged a chemical weapons program and an interest in acquiring biological weapons equipment. On Libya's nuclear aims, the official said, "My understanding is that they did have a much further advanced program," than previously thought. Bush offered the prospect of US assistance for Libya in the future, saying: "As Libya becomes a more peaceful nation it can become a source of stability in Africa and the Middle East. Should Libya pursue internal reform, America will be ready to help its people to build a more free and prosperous country." An official in London said a British team working with the Libyans had been shown "significant quantities of chemical agent" and that Libya had acknowledged that it was developing nuclear material intended to create a weapon. The team saw nuclear projects under way at more than 10 sites, including uranium enrichment. It also saw dual-use sites with the potential to support work on biological weapons. It would be up to Libya to disclose the details of the weapons programs to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, as it has now agreed to do, the official said.