Inside Story - Rice visits Libya - 03 Sep 08 - Part 1

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, is to make a "historic" first visit to Libya on Friday, September 5, 2008.

Her visit will be the first by a US secretary of state to Libya since 1953.

Libya was on the state department list of state sponsors of terrorism until 2006, when it abandoned weapons of mass destruction and renounced terrorism.

Earlier this month, Libya agreed a compensation deal for families of the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

The deal paved the way for Rice's visit to what was once considered a pariah state. Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, was once described by the late President Ronald Reagan as a "mad dog".

We ask what's changed for both countries - and why? And who stands to benefit the most as the money pours in?

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[andreipetunin]

Rise should go to hell.

[dermoni08]

wow how time and oilpipes lines put people together this is BS in fullest form

[zenbrenzz]

Now now..never mention the bombing of Qadhafi's home by the good ol gipper, which killed his little 2 yr old daughter.

[GibsonRock4All]

its true that their ways are Centuries behind the rest of the world both technologically and socially. But then again whos to say this is better now being enslaved my the government instead of poverty?

same deal

different package

[darkalimamuri]

ANOTHER GOES DOWN.

[alsafy100]

we do not go to any who wants us just come and neal to us... we alaways on the top...

[KernelThread]

Relations? give me a break folks. This guy "Gaddafi" has no problem to cut ties with any country over a silly thing. Tripoli/Bern - Libya has shocked Swiss officials by announcing plans to reduce its economic ties to Switzerland, apparently in continued protest over the brief arrest in July of the son of Libyan leader Moamer Gadaffi.

[qeuqheeg222]

look how long it took the west(europe and now america0 to reach the "civilised state of democracy"at least 1000 yrs of plagues and 100 yr wars,60yrs wars revolutions and oligarchial hemophiliacs....america had to throw off the colonial yoke of europe and the dogmatic positions of monarchys(read dicattors nowadays)...many of these places in the mid east still have a basic feudal stlye of governance...peasants,clerics and the monarchy..do they need reformations and growing pains?they need jobs,too