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Libya: President Gaddafi
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Sarkozy and France's foreign-affairs minister, Bernard Kouchner, are racing to Libya today for talks with government officials there. It is expected that Sarkozy may "sign agreements on security, immigration, energy and scientific research." He wants Gaddafi's help in fighting terrorism and in stemming the flow of illegal immigrants who make their way from North Africa into southern Europe.
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The flyby honored the two-man crew of an F-111F fighter jet that went down in the early dark of April 15, 1986, off the coast of Tripoli, Libya. Two dozen F-111s flew from Lakenheath Air Base for a bombing raid on Libya that President Reagan ordered to strike back for a terrorist blast at a West Berlin disco that injured 200 people, including 63 U.S. soldiers, and killed two.
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After the 1969 coup, Gaddafi closed American and British bases and partially nationalized foreign oil and commercial interests in Libya. He ... played a key role in promoting oil embargoes as a political weapon for challenging the West, hoping that an oil price rise and embargo in 1973 would persuade the West, especially the United States, to end support for Israel. Gaddafi rejected both Soviet communism and Western capitalism and claimed he was charting a middle course for his government.
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[I]n 2003, the United Nations Security Council lifted sanctions that it had imposed on Libya following the Lockerbie bombing. Since then, the governments of France, the U.S. and other Western countries appear to have forgiven, if not completely forgotten, Gaddafi's nefarious past. After all, there are contracts to be pursued for technological services related to Libya's oil industry and for Western-made weapons systems that Gaddafi wants and has the cash to pay for.
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