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Qaddafi Meets Rice, Talks of Cooperation on Africa, Terrorism

Viola Gienger, 2008-09-06 (Saturday), Bloomberg
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday and discussed cooperation on easing tensions in Africa and fighting terrorism, aiming to overcome decades of enmity with the U.S.

Rice told reporters that the refurbished relationship with Libya, once branded by the U.S. as a terrorism sponsor, was ``off to a good start'' after the discussions in Tripoli with Qaddafi and his foreign minister, Abdel Rahman Shalgam. She earlier pointed to Libya's seat on the United Nations Security Council and its membership in both the African Union and the Arab League as giving Qaddafi new standing on regional problems.

``This is a good time for a constructive relationship between the United States and Libya to emerge,'' Rice said during a briefing that stretched past midnight in Tripoli, the Libyan capital.

Rice's eight-hour stop marked the highest-level official U.S. visit to Libya in more than 50 years and came after Qaddafi abandoned a nuclear-arms program and renounced terrorism. After their talks, Rice and Qaddafi shared an Iftar meal, which ends each day's fast for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan now under way.

``Libya has changed. America has changed. The world has changed,'' Shalgam told reporters as he reflected on the visit.

Qaddafi wore a white robe with a green and yellow sash patterned in outlines of the African continent as he welcomed Rice to his heavily fortified compound, surrounded by a 15-foot- high wall. It was the same complex the U.S. bombed in 1986 in retaliation for a Libyan-linked attack on a Berlin nightclub in which two U.S. soldiers died.

Qaddafi's Greeting

With reporters allowed into the incense-fragranced room to witness the encounter, Qaddafi put his hand to his heart in greeting and asked how Rice was. ``I'm very well, thank you,'' she answered.

Qaddafi, speaking in Arabic through an interpreter, asked about the impact of Hurricane Gustav on the U.S. Gulf Coast this week. Rice said that, while Gustav had done less damage than feared, other tropical storms were churning toward the U.S.

They then went into a private meeting to talk about energy and counter-terrorism, among other topics. Rice said their conversation covered a planned trade agreement, student exchanges, the Middle East, North Africa and conflicts in Sudan, Chad and Somalia.

Of particular interest to Qaddafi were U.S. plans for its Africa Command, set up last year. Rice said she was able to ``clear up some misunderstandings'' that the U.S. intends to open bases in Africa. Instead, the aim is to help African countries with anti-terrorism and peacekeeping needs, she said.

Arrival in Tripoli

The dialogue marked a turnabout in relations that hit a low point with the 1986 attack on Tripoli and Benghazi ordered by President Ronald Reagan, who had described Qaddafi as a ``mad dog.'' At least 36 Libyans died, including Qaddafi's adopted daughter, according to a State Department chronology of relations with Libya dating to 1786. A U.S. Air Force bomber and its crew of two were lost.

``Obviously there was a long period of isolation,'' Rice said yesterday. The first signals that Libya was interested in reviving relations came after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Talks between Libya and the U.S. and Britain followed.

``It was at that point that it was possible to really see a different future,'' Rice said. ``But it was a choice that Libya made.''

Abandoned Weapons

Between 2002 and 2005, Qaddafi abandoned a nuclear-arms development effort, pledged to destroy a chemical weapons stockpile, renounced terrorism and offered $2.7 billion to compensate families of the 270 people killed in the Libyan- linked 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. The actions led to improved ties with the U.S. and European nations and Western investments to expand Libyan oil production.

Rice came to Libya even though the Libyan government hasn't yet paid into a planned $800 million settlement fund to make final payments to terrorism victims' families. The fund was set up as part of an agreement with the U.S. that is aimed at ending lawsuits that threatened Libyan assets.

Before arriving in Tripoli, Rice said the U.S. expects that Libya will send the funds. ``I can't be certain of the timing,'' she said. After talking with Qaddafi, Rice said she was ``confident'' the agreement would be fulfilled.

Terror Designation Lifted

The U.S. removed Libya from its state sponsors of terrorism list in 2006 and the two countries established embassies in each other's capitals the same year. Libya, ruled by Qaddafi for 39 years since a 1969 coup, has been helping the U.S. in North Africa by sharing intelligence about al-Qaeda operatives in the region, according to American officials.

Rice was the most senior U.S. official to visit Libya since then-Vice President Richard Nixon made the trip in March 1957. John Foster Dulles was the last secretary of state to stop in the country, in 1953.

Rice raised with Qaddafi the issue of two imprisoned critics of his regime, Fathi al-Jahmi and Idris Boufayed. The men were jailed on charges that include unauthorized contact with a foreign government official. Human Rights Watch, a New York-based monitoring group, says the contact was with a U.S. diplomat.

During the talks, Rice planned to urge Libyan officials to modernize the legal system and economic policy to better accommodate foreign investment, Assistant Secretary of State David Welch said this week. Libya has 41.5 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves, Africa's largest, and seeks to boost production from the 1.63 million barrels pumped each day last month, according to Bloomberg estimates.

Rice wrapped up her visit about 1 a.m. today, and as her convoy sped through the darkened streets of Tripoli back to her plane, men and boys gawked from cafes and shops along the route.

She was bound for Tunisia and will also visit Algeria and Morocco before returning to Washington.

Last Updated: September 5, 2008 20:39 EDT

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2008-05-23Rice warns of more U.S. sanctions on Iran
2008-08-03Sarkozy's Club Med Experiment Is Sure to Fail: Michael R. Sesit
2008-08-06Extradition Delayed Is Justice Denied
2008-08-06Douglas Feith's War and Decision: Life in a Neocon's Parallel Universe
2008-07-30Somalia: Crusade Number Four
2008-08-09Chasing a Mirage
2008-08-18Lost in the System -- What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?
2008-08-19Double Standards in the Global War on Terror
2008-08-21The Gaza concentration camp: ancient colonialism through a Nazi filter
2008-08-21The Breaking Point -- A New Age of Torture
2008-07-02The Story Behind George Bush's Lies -- What Scott McClellan (and Jay Rockefeller) Didn't Tell Us
2008-06-21Jimmy Carter and Apartheid
2008-06-24Chomsky Speaks -- On Iraq, Iran and Norman Finkelstein
2008-07-17Prosecuting Genocide
2008-07-15Sudan leader accused of genocide
2009-06-07The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance -- The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
2009-07-20"Watch What We Do, Not What We Say"
2009-09-12No Escape From Guantánamo -- The Latest Habeas Corpus Rulings
2009-01-11Just Finding the Right Words Won’t Solve Real Problems (Or Leave Madison Avenue Out of This) -- Reaction Essay
2008-12-30May We No Longer Be Silent -- America's Crimes "Never Happened"
2008-12-22Manama Dialogue (Bahrain) As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
2008-12-18Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry Into The Treatment Of Detainees In U.S. Custody
2008-12-03Symposium: Iran: The Countdown
2008-12-06Obama's War Cabinet
2008-12-07Obama’s Speech in Berlin -- Transcript
2008-11-24The Cult of Counterinsurgency
2008-11-25Asymmetrical Warfare and Immigration
2008-11-18Saudi super-tanker taken to Somali pirate lair
2008-11-19Iranian grain ship seized as Somali pirates hold world to ransom
2008-11-09Blueprint for Change -- Obama and Biden’s Plan for America
2007-09-08Does independence beckon?
2007-09-02STRIKING FIRST
2007-09-05If you want my opinion
2007-09-06Excerpts from an interview with Lee Kuan Yew
2007-08-29Making America Safer by Defeating Extremists in the Middle East
2007-09-02UN chief to jumpstart Darfur peace process on Africa tour
2007-08-27Can Morocco’s Islamists check al-Qaida?
2007-08-27Iran risks attack over atomic push, French president says
2007-08-12How the ‘Good War’ in Afghanistan Went Bad
2007-08-08The Fallaci Code -- Letters
2007-08-08Germany Left Out of Global Policy Loop
2007-08-14The virtues of the Mediterranean union
2007-08-13The Limits of Multiculturalism - The Dutch Labor Party and Islam
2007-08-19On Israel, America and AIPAC
2007-08-20New Power in Africa -- Entrepreneurs From China Flourish in Africa
2007-08-20Iraq's Elite Fleeing in Droves