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Tuesday, August 19, 2003

wasn't it about the oil? 

Posted by Nick : 12:45 AM

In a story about the UK looking to have the Security Council formally end sactions against Libya, Reuters reports:
Lifting the U.N. sanctions would have only a symbolic impact as they were suspended in 1999 after Libya turned over two suspects for trial in connection with the Pan Am bombing.

One, a Libyan intelligence agent, was later convicted of the crime in 2001, while the second was acquitted.

Separate U.S. sanctions include a ban on Libyan oil sales to the United States, which Washington has vowed to keep in force.

If we really needed oil, why not lift these sanctions? Libya has essentially come full circle and claimed responsibility for the PanAm bombing, if the United States is an amoral beast with a thirst for oil, wouldn't we end sanctions which have outlived the Reagan-era policy makers who put them in place in order to aquire access to oil?
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