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...terror victims if he didn't expect a return? But most of the interested players are already there. European oil companies - including France's Total, Spain's Repsol, Germany's Wintershall and Italy's Eni - maintained a dormant presence in Libya after U.N. sanctions were imposed in 1992 for Tripoli's suspected role in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. They quickly revved up after sanctions were suspended in 1999, when Libya surrendered two suspects. That allowed Libya to export around 1.2 million barrels of oil per day - around 90% of it destined...
...said he accepted "the symbolic apology" and offered his own to "all those to whom the citizens of Croatia have inflicted pain or caused damage." The statements follow three years of rapprochement between the erstwhile enemies. The Final Hurdle LIBYA The U.N. Security Council lifted decade-old sanctions against Tripoli, paving the way for Libya to pay compensation totaling $2.7 billion to families of the 270 victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. France lifted a threatened veto of the vote after striking a deal with Libya for increased payments to relatives...
...sanctions on Libya remain in force, and the country is still on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Those two restrictions must be lifted before the families of the victims can collect an additional $5 million apiece, according to an agreement they negotiated separately with Tripoli. But there are no signs the U.S. is about to relent. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that Washington still has grave concerns about Gaddafi's illicit nuclear-weapons program--and what the official calls the leader's "active and robust" stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. --By Unmesh Kher...
...lowering of the bar." Gaddafi is desperate to end U.N. and U.S. sanctions that have cost the Libyan economy $30 billion. Libyan officials quickly arranged the interview with Time, conducted in a quilted tent pitched in the desert outside Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, 500 km east of Tripoli, to emphasize the country's desire to settle the Lockerbie matter once and for all. Speaking in a soft monotone, without emotion except for an occasional smirk, Gaddafi described a new world order in which the U.S. and Libya were natural allies in the war against Islamic extremism. He said Libya...
...resulting tensions have sometimes erupted tragically: the past two years have seen the arrest and imprisonment of two American missionaries in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and the apparently religiously motivated murders of four more in Yemen and Lebanon. The botched bombing last month of a Dutch-German missionary family in Tripoli, Lebanon, suggests the danger is not abating. Says Stan Guthrie, author of the book Missions in the Third Millennium: "People are beginning to count the costs. If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you could be killed. Missionaries have always considered the possibility...