Shelling to Selling: Rolling up for Libyan profits

While Libya is going through a tough period of post-revolutionary development, after its infrastructure was badly damaged, countries which first bombed Libyan cities are cashing-in on rebuilding them. They may have helped bring down the house, but they were very careful not to burn bridges. As Libya rises from the ashes of civil war, the countries that poured oil on to the fire are now lining up to cash in by undoing the damage. The belief that Russia benefited a great deal from trading with the Gaddafi regime is very widespread in Tripoli, but it is simply false. In 2010, Moscow was number 17 on the list of Libya's main trading partners, accounting for just 0.4 per cent of its international trade. The countries that had the largest trade volumes with Gaddafi's Libya are precisely the ones that spearheaded the campaign against him -- the European Union, the United States and Turkey. And they all are now jostling for contracts to rebuild Libya. American business style is still a bit of an oddity here, but is already catching up. Construction firm owner Richard Peters arrived in Tripoli just before the uprising to seal a multimillion dollar contract with Gaddafi's government. The war and Peters' subsequent incarceration threw him off track, but now he hopes to make up for it.

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• Oksana Boyko
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• Gaddafi
• civil war
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• Yusuf Yildiz
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[crazvy]

the ultimate cruelty: destroy a country and make a fortune from it (with the military spendings) and then rebuild the country by enslaving the people with huge credits and make a second fortune from it...

[HousekaterClaudio]

Muammar Gathafi is the Hero of Africa! His ideas for getting rid of parasites like the IMF, Worldbank, US and other colonial Corporation plundering the african countries and finally having african telecommunication, diect-democracy and trading in african currency must come to get africa free!

Fuck "Disneyland" !

[joobjooba]

the american guy is so dumb and ignorant..............libyans DONT want disneyland in libya, americans want it in libya!

[joobjooba]

why does everything come down to business trading money materialism its soooo sad

[joobjooba]

why dont the americans butt out

[sablechicken]

They had every thing with Gaddafi.

Now they have had their town and children blown up...in hopes of Disneyland!? sick

[MeesterWolf99]

@killerbee04x The US people might not, but the CIA had other plans sadly. Both the CIA and MI6 (British Intelligence) were advising and funding the rebels against Gadaffi

[MeesterWolf99]

Think through the comment there... Russia #17, with the EU ranked #1 and the US/Turkey #2-3.

Can you honestly think of another 13 countries that would do MORE business than Russia with an oil rich nation? 0.4% of Libya's international trade? Sorry RT, I back you 100% of the time usually but this one really doesn't add up.

[visionz0]

what a scum bag contractor!!! 

[GPdogg213]

@Justoneofthebrothers well you are idiot all by yourself !! CONGRATULATIONS -_-

[IExposeMormonism]

Richard Peters is a globalist thug lackey. He's fat, wears cocaine gold chains, has a 1973 hair-do and and his mustache is a corny foo-man-chu. He'll serve his masters well.

[Justoneofthebrothers]

@GPdogg213 I just told you I was a Libyan living in England? I don't get my information from films or Hillary Clinton, I get my information from experience.