U.S.-Libya chemical arms-related deal in doubt

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Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - Libya, citing cost and liability concerns, has informed the United States of plans to back out of a contract to destroy its mustard gas stocks as promised under a landmark 2003 agreement, U.S. officials said.

The State Department played down the development and insisted Tripoli remains committed to getting rid of its chemical weapons agents.

But some officials and experts worry that a critical opportunity to destroy Libya's remaining stocks -- believed to include 23 metric tons of old mustard gas and 1,300 metric tons of precursor chemicals -- could be lost.

"We can't let this opportunity slip by," said a U.S. official, who like several others interviewed this week spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak for the record.

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1. The Libyan deals alone are enough to indict Bush and Cheney

These deals, which enabled the cruel Libyan regime to avoid real consequences for their terrorist acts over the last decades are on the top priority list for prosecutors after the Bush presidency ends. It looks like that members of the Bush administration are profiting notably from those deals, including Cheney, who still has strong ties to Halliburton (Halliburton is one of the companies who are today trying to invest a lot in this terrorist state).

Bush ordered an illegal war of aggression against a country, which posed no threat at all against the United States and destroyed it almost completely. The war against Iraq will be the first priority for a prosecution against Bush and members of his administration. Libya is the second one, because this regime has openly undertaken uncounted acts of terrorism against the citizens of the United states. Some 'highlights' were a bloodbath in Germany-Berlin against US soldiers and taking down a US airplane (!) over Scotland, not to forget all the financial aid which Libya gave to terrorist cells to undertake terrorist acts against the United States.
And instead of trying to bring this bloodthirsty regime in Libya down, Bush, Cheney and others are actively profiting from letting these terrorists get away with murder?

This is unbelievable and itself a crime.