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When mercurial Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi abruptly renounced his nuclear ambitions at the end of December, he exposed another case of Pakistani proliferation. Investigators now exploring Libya's projects have found "interconnections" with Pakistan's technology and a backdoor trading network, according to a New York Times report. The U.S. thinks oil-rich Libya first began funding Pakistan's nuclear development in the 1970s and periodically supplied raw uranium. Washington officials say Gaddafi was eventually rewarded with Pakistan's centrifuge designs and secret supplies of essential materiel that helped Libya close in on nuclear-fuel production...
...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...
...luck. Getting stuck out here means almost certain death. The drivers try to calm the passengers by telling them, "We're in the same situation as you." Finally, after three hours, the motor kicks over and the truck starts rolling north again. Roughly three days later they cross into Libyan territory. A few hundred kilometers later - and after 10 days in the truck - the driver brakes to a halt and tells the Somalis to hop off the back. One of the smugglers points north toward a distant, green landscape: "There is Kufra," he says, the oasis outpost in southern Libya...
much shorter distances from Albania to southeast Italy or from Morocco to Spain. But the would-be immigrants choose it because it offers the steadiest flow of outgoing boats. As the Somalis approach the edge of Kufra, a swarm of Libyans comes to greet them. "Tripoli! Tripoli! Benghazi!" the local men bark. "Where do you want to go? We have food. Do you want a place to stay?" Abdi Salan has little choice, agreeing to spend $150 for a hot meal, two nights' lodging and a jeep ride north to Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. The Kufra smugglers convince...