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Without an Iraq-style regimen of international inspections, no one may ever know for sure if Cuba has been producing biological weapons for sale to rogue nations such as Libya and Iran, as Undersecretary of State John Bolton recently alleged. Time was recently among the few foreign publications to get an inside look at some of Fidel Castro's most sophisticated biomedical plants - including the Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, which the Bush administration has cited as the locus of Cuba's bio-warfare capabilities, and the Finlay Institute, where many of Cuba's vaunted vaccines are produced...
...pays compensation and also admits Libyan responsibility for the crime, he will expect in return a resumption of oil trade and other commerce currently prohibited by U.S. sanctions and, eventually, renewed diplomatic relations with Washington. But that may not be so easy, especially since a recent CIA report says Libya is aggressively seeking weapons of mass destruction, notably chemical arms and ballistic-missile delivery systems. "The President has made absolutely clear that these weapons will not be tolerated," a senior Bush Administration official tells TIME. "That means, very simply, that removing sanctions from a country like Libya, which is trying...
Other member nations include Saudi Arabia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Libya. Saudi Arabia’s notorious repression of women is clearly disgraceful, while the Congo is known primarily as an epicenter of genocide and ethnic cleansing. And it was, of course, Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi’s henchmen who blew up a West Berlin discotheque in 1986 and were also implicated in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people...
...unrest in the Middle East. In the short term, it may even lead to a spike. Venezuela, the third largest exporter of oil to the U.S., emerged under Chavez as an oil hard-liner. The left-wing former paratrooper cozied up to radical petroleum producers like Iraq and Libya. He also criticized U.S. military action in Afghanistan and pushed for higher prices in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. To further that strategy, Chavez had cut back Venezuelan oil output, which then declined to a virtual standstill when workers at the state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, went on strike...
...presidential palace by a popular uprising Sunday?) The short answer is that Chavez has not hesitated in the past few years to kowtow to OPEC in keeping oil production down and prices high. The OPEC oil cartel—which includes Venezuela and rogue states such as Libya, Iraq and Iran—sets quotas for its member states to manipulate the market and keep oil revenues as high as possible. Because it takes only one major oil producer breaking ranks and increasing output to send prices plunging, the world market is very sensitive to the political situation...