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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's apparent decision to come clean on his secret nuclear-weapons program could prove to be a major achievement in the world's bid to rein in rogue nuclear nations. But it has also shown how far there still is to go. Since 1980, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited Libya, a signatory of the 1970 Nonproliferation Treaty, and routinely reported that they found no evidence of a nuclear-weapons program, although they did stress that they could not guarantee their information was complete. Last week IAEA inspectors visited nine nuclear sites...
...Bush Administration chalked up a major foreign-policy victory when the President announced that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had agreed to dismantle his secret--and surprisingly advanced--unconventional-weapons program in exchange for improved relations with the West. Intelligence officials say they expect Libya's cooperation will help them further unravel the shadowy world of illicit-weapons supply lines--which is partly why they are disclosing little information on which countries have aided Libya's program. The deal provides "huge intelligence ... opportunities," said a senior U.S. intelligence official. "We'll be pursuing those opportunities...
...Administration is making the case that the Iraq war scared Libya into submission, a politically handy retort to Democratic charges that the Iraq adventure has been a mistake. Bush's aides have pointedly noted that Gaddafi initiated contact on March 19, as the first salvo of missiles rained down on Baghdad. And as the search for weapons of mass destruction continues to come up virtually empty in Iraq--top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay says he may quit as head of the effort--Bush can at least claim credit for having neutralized one nation's WMD threat...
...Already in The Pipeline When the United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya on Sept. 12, some expected a quick inflow of investment to the longtime pariah state. There was money to be made, right? Would Muammar Gaddafi have spent billions to pay off 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...
...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 and Adam Zagorin