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Another Libyan Hostage Quid Pro Quo?

Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 1:21:03 pm PDT

Libya and French EADS unit sign 168 mln eur arms deal.

TRIPOLI (Thomson Financial) - Libya has signed a contract with France to buy Milan anti-tank missiles worth 168 mln eur, an official in Tripoli told AFP.

The contract was signed with European missile manufacturer MBDA, a subsidiary of the EADS group, the official said.

Libya also signed a contract with EADS for a Tetra radio communications system in a separate deal worth 128 mln eur, another official said on condition of anonymity.

(Hat tip: LawHawk.)

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1 Ben Hur  8/02/07 1:21:59 pm reply quote

For self defense I presume.

2 lawhawk  8/02/07 1:23:07 pm reply quote

The Jerusalem Post has even more on the quid pro quo:

On Wednesday, the French daily Le Monde quoted Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of leader Moammar Gadhafi, as saying that a deal to buy military hardware from France was an element of negotiations that led to the release of six medics detained in Libya. (AP)
3 RTLM  8/02/07 1:23:10 pm reply quote

Momar has done an excellent job of taqiyya (sp)

4 Iron Fist  8/02/07 1:24:03 pm reply quote

re:

5 taxfreekiller  8/02/07 1:26:28 pm reply quote

Just thinking of the meeting between Kadaffyduck and Pres. Tom Tancredo, , "No sorry, your country kicked you out, we do not need any more thugs who always do things Americans never do." Hit the road buster.

[Link: www.teamtancredo.com...]

6 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  8/02/07 1:26:59 pm reply quote

Here's a permission slip, if I or my family ever gets taken hostage or held prisoners by a turd world shithead, dont negotiate or make concessions, just kill them. Keep hitting them until either we're let go or you've killed whoever killed us.

7 baconeatingkaffir  8/02/07 1:27:58 pm reply quote

Isn't Libya the country who extorted money from the EU for the victims of Aids who were supposedly infected by the Bulgarian Nurses? Sheesh, they cna't take care of their own kids or pay the money to the lockerbie and labelle victims, yet the bastards have money to buy anti-tank missiles. I don't know who I'm angrier with.. the Libyans for being typical a-rabs or the french for being spineless and putting weapons in their hands. With friends like the French, who really needs enemies?

8 zombie  8/02/07 1:28:38 pm reply quote

Charles, please remind everyone of trhe unbelievable torture Libya infllcted on these people:

Tales of torture in German media.

9 NinoBrown79  8/02/07 1:28:55 pm reply quote

The links are coming too fast.

10 justnobody  8/02/07 1:29:35 pm reply quote

Why does Libya need all this military hardware? Does it have hostile neighbors? Just wondering...

11 alegrias  8/02/07 1:32:13 pm reply quote

And French citizens were so thrilled their First Lady Cecilia Sarkozy was "triumphant" returning from Libya with those Bulgarian nurses. They should have known there was a payoff.

12 hous bin pharteen  8/02/07 1:32:14 pm reply quote

OT: If this was posted today, sorry.
Just GAZE it.


Byron York/ National Review
[Link: article.nationalreview.com...]

Today more than a thousand Kossacks — adherents of the left-wing website DailyKos — are gathering for their annual convention in Chicago

.

And just look at the people who are coming to visit YearlyKos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and many others.

So Kos the political whore has all the who's who coming to his shindig.
The left wing wacko stalinist left is throwing a party revolving around this hate site.
Byron does not even mention how bad it is.
Mainstreaming hate I tell ya.

13 zombie  8/02/07 1:33:09 pm reply quote

The UN had the "Oil for Food" deal.

Now the EU has the "Torture for Guns" deal.

Nice!

14 itellu3times  8/02/07 1:33:13 pm reply quote

re: #2 lawhawk

The

15 Terp Mole  8/02/07 1:33:21 pm reply quote

I'm starting to lose track of the pay-off totals... can someone start a running tab of Kaddafi's jizya? Let's see;

EU $400 million (includes Bulgaria's $57M ransom)

French nuclear reactor deal (+ military hardware)

EU free trade (+ political normalization)

Brand new US Ambassador (+ a date w/ Condi)

And (to top it off) a terrorist mass murderer release (pending appeal);

Lockerbie convict 'will soon be home in Libya'

Libya believes it has reached a deal with Britain that could see a Libyan convicted for the Lockerbie bombings extradited home in return for last week’s release of six foreign medics, Muammar Gaddafi's son was quoted as saying today.
=====
He also told Le Monde that he hoped Megrahi would soon be sent back to Libya.

“We will soon have an extradition agreement with Britain,” he said, referring to a memorandum of understanding on an extradition deal signed with Libya during a visit by Tony Blair in May.

Naturally, the UK denies any deal.

"Any decision on Mr Megrahi would be a matter for the Scottish courts and the Scottish authorities. There is no deal being done," the spokesman said.

Naturally, it's all just coincidence the Scots are hearing Megrahi's 2nd appeal.

/All this, and more!... if The Jizya's Right!

16 Ben Hur  8/02/07 1:33:50 pm reply quote

'Egyptians killed 4 Sudanese trying to cross border'


Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview with Channel 10, Thursday evening.

According to the soldier, female IDF troops operating night vision devices identified several refugees approaching the border in an attempt to infiltrate Israel and alerted other soldiers who arrived after a few minutes in an army jeep.

However, Egyptian troops who also discovered the refugees, fired upon them, immediately killing two and wounding a third. A fourth refugee ran towards the fence and an IDF soldier stretched out his hands, trying to help him cross.

17 Ben Hur  8/02/07 1:34:49 pm reply quote

JPost.com » Middle East » Article


Aug. 2, 2007 20:37 | Updated Aug. 2, 2007 22:06
'Egyptians killed 4 Sudanese trying to cross border'
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Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview with Channel 10, Thursday evening.

According to the soldier, female IDF troops operating night vision devices identified several refugees approaching the border in an attempt to infiltrate Israel and alerted other soldiers who arrived after a few minutes in an army jeep.

However, Egyptian troops who also discovered the refugees, fired upon them, immediately killing two and wounding a third. A fourth refugee ran towards the fence and an IDF soldier stretched out his hands, trying to help him cross.

At that point, the soldier recalled, two Egyptian soldiers arrived and started pulling at the refugee's legs.

"It was literally like we were playing 'tug of war' with this man," the soldier said. The soldier eventually loosened his grip on the man, fearing the Egyptians would shoot him.

"They were aiming loaded weapons straight at us, I was afraid they were going to shoot us," he said.

The Egyptians then carried the man several meters away from the border fence, and proceeded to beat him and another wounded refugee to death with stones and clubs.

"What happened there yesterday was a lynch. These are not men, they're animals. They killed him without even using firearms," the soldier said. "We just heard screams of pain and the sounds of beatings. Then the screams stopped."

The entire event was caught on IDF tapes, but, the soldier said, his commanders, who were not at the site, would not dare watch them.

18 Eowyn2  8/02/07 1:34:53 pm reply quote

re:

19 Eowyn2  8/02/07 1:35:58 pm reply quote

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20 Ben Hur  8/02/07 1:37:28 pm reply quote

A Channel 10 commentator said the channel preferred not to show the tape, so as not to cause a diplomatic row with Egypt.

NYTIMES 1944

21 opnion  8/02/07 1:37:49 pm reply quote

Why can't he have weapons? He has always been responsible.
Oh yeah, that Lockerbie thing.
If the UN were not a useless forum for Third World ranting this guy would at the very least be under a trade boycott for his imprisonment & torture of the Bulgarians. In a just world the invasion & his removal would be under way.

22 justnobody  8/02/07 1:38:19 pm reply quote

re: #17 Ben Hur

JPost.com � Middle East � Article
Aug. 2, 2007 20:37 | Updated Aug. 2, 2007 22:06
'Egyptians killed 4 Sudanese trying to cross border'


When you think about this story, it begins to sound fishy. Why were IDF soldiers trying so hard to help infiltrators cross into Israel? Why were the Egyptian soldiers so rabid in protecting Israel's border? It doesn't look like we're getting the whole story.

23 dadofseven  8/02/07 1:38:31 pm reply quote

Seems like Libya hasn't changed much from the days they used to send pirate ships into the Med to terrorize ships of other nations. Nowadays they just use more "efficient" means to extort money.

24 Adrenalyn  8/02/07 1:39:00 pm reply quote

ok, it's obvous, to me at least
these will end up in the hands of Hizbullah, Hamas or some such group

perhaps an outside chance they will even be used against the US in Iraq

but you can bet the Libyans do not personally need them

I say once we find proof that a FRench made munition takes a US soldier's life, we declare war on bomb a tent or two in France and a couple more in Libya

25 Terp Mole  8/02/07 1:41:36 pm reply quote

See also “A very successful tactic”

In an interview with Britain’s Channel 4 news last month, Dadullah called kidnapping “a very successful policy.” The insurgents have certainly been actively engaged in it. Besides the Koreans, the Taliban have kidnapped at least 41 Afghan civilians and killed at least 23 of them, while 18 remain missing, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch, which called the Taliban’s kidnapping policy a “war crime”...

Isn't any tactic successful that your enemy routinely surrenders to?

26 Ben Hur  8/02/07 1:42:05 pm reply quote

re:

27 Beagle  8/02/07 1:44:21 pm reply quote

Kidnapping Europeans is the new plastics.

28 Silhouette  8/02/07 1:49:41 pm reply quote

The root cause of terrorism is that it succeeds.

29 Terp Mole  8/02/07 1:52:26 pm reply quote
re: #21 opnion Why can't he have weapons? He has always been responsible. Oh yeah, that Lockerbie thing...

And the thousands of victims of Kaddafi's bloody PIRA bombing thing.

30 gymnast  8/02/07 1:54:26 pm reply quote

#28, Silhouette. I like your parsimony. The implication of your analysis is obvious as well. Well done!

31 viahj  8/02/07 1:58:05 pm reply quote

me thinks that the West's fate is being sealed.
-we pump trillions of dollars into their coffers to buy their overpriced oil because we refuse to drill our own and develop nuclear power plants. this money is used to finance terrorists and the global jihad and to buy our former heads of states, attorney generals and other high ranking members of our government who, once they leave off, go to work for the oil rich barrons.
-we sell billions of dollars' worth of arms to the islamic nations, usually as bribes.
-we let millions of muslims immigrate into our nations where they subsequently continue with the global jihad.
-we let them take over our academic institutions and feed their views to our school children.
-we are allowing them to slowly kill the US Constitution and replace it with shariah law.
-our politicians embrace their organizations such as the muslim brotherhood (Condi) and their totalitarian governments (syria, iran) to try and get them to play nice with us.
-our media is a willful accomplance in hiding the truth from our people.
-when we go to war, our politicians hamstring our military and don't allow them to do what they are trained to do...destroy the enemy.
-we poor billions in dollars' worth in humanitarian aid to their countries only to have their tyranical leaders steal the money while the people suffer.
-we continue to pretend that the UN is a force for good and not a place where dictators get to decide how to deal with issues such as genocide and stealing more wealth from the West.
-our would-be Presidents answer questions from "snowmen" and sock puppets rather than tackle the hard issues of survival.

32 Terp Mole  8/02/07 2:01:11 pm reply quote

Anybody recall NATO's Article 5? It's only been invoked once;

Less than 24 hours after the [9/11] attacks, NATO invoked for the first time Article 5 of the Washington Treaty - its collective defence clause - declaring the attacks to be an attack against all NATO members.

Did Afghanistan launch an armed attack on American territory? No?

Yet how did Bulgaria respond? Bulgarians sacrificed blood and treasure in Afghanistan-- not because their sovereign territory was attacked; but because they honorably upheld their international duty.

Now, in the midst of this NATO collective defense effort-- this "global war on terror"-- Kaddafi's terrorist regime tortures NATO member citizens and extorts ransom from a NATO member state. Remember, Kaddafi does this with explicit intent to recoup Lockerbie reparations and extort release of the Lockerbie bomber (an earlier armed attack on NATO members).

Threatening to execute Bulgarian civilians by a sharia firing squad was an armed attack on Bulgaria. What does Bulgaria need to do? Wait until Kaddafi orders hijackers to fly planes into Bulgarian skyscrapers?

Hostage extortion of NATO member citizens should be treat as an armed attack under NATO Article 5.

/Kaddafi delenda est

33 goodbye_natalie  8/02/07 2:11:13 pm reply quote

This would make for a perfect target U.S. air force. Are you listening G.W.?

When those cross the border, shred them...

34 markie  8/02/07 2:14:34 pm reply quote

More hoping the crocodile will eat them last.

35 Spartacus  8/02/07 2:22:30 pm reply quote

And who is suprised that the the French are an appeasing, stupid, short-sighted, willing to prostitute themselves for cash?

36 hous bin pharteen  8/02/07 2:26:57 pm reply quote

#32 Terp mole

I think that would require balls.
Something sorely lacking in the Socialist Proletariat Wonder land we live in.

37 Judith  8/02/07 2:27:47 pm reply quote

re: #22 justnobody

re: #17 Ben Hur



When you think about this story, it begins to sound fishy. Why were IDF soldiers trying so hard to help infiltrators cross into Israel? Why were the Egyptian soldiers so rabid in protecting Israel's border? It doesn't look like we're getting the whole story.

Actually no. Ther have been several stories of Sudanese refugees sneaking into Israel complaining of this kind of brutality from Egyptians. There ahve also been several stories of IDF not knowing what to do with them. This actually fits a pattern that has been going on for a couple of years at least.

38 hous bin pharteen  8/02/07 2:28:28 pm reply quote

Current political doctrine"

Used to be "talk softly and carry a big stick"

now its "talk whiny and nasally and don't carry any stick"

39 alegrias  8/02/07 2:30:15 pm reply quote

OT but so good....Drudge report headline said Valerie Pflame's case was in trouble and she'd be prevented from selling her tell-all book if she disclosed when she worked for the CIA...someone fact check me as I couldn't get the link to work minutes ago on Drudge.

40 Judith  8/02/07 2:30:25 pm reply quote

re: #6 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Here's a permission slip, if I or my family ever gets taken hostage or held prisoners by a turd world shithead, dont negotiate or make concessions, just kill them. Keep hitting them until either we're let go or you've killed whoever killed us.

With your permission I think I would like to add that to my living will. I might modify the "shithead"....considering Gadaffi.....No I think i would leave it in just like that.

41 Aylios  8/02/07 2:31:44 pm reply quote

re: #7 baconeatingkaffir

With friends like the French, who really needs enemies?


Erm, I think Ghaddafi is quite happy to have them as friends ... oh, or did you mean they are the US's friends? *loud laughter*

42 alegrias  8/02/07 2:33:16 pm reply quote

OT from Drudge

"Plame loses her lawsuit against CIA, and will not be allowed to publish her memoir if it includes her dates of service... "

43 Aylios  8/02/07 2:33:20 pm reply quote

Btw, I don't think Sarkozy is appeasing, I think this is his brilliant idea for reducing the french budget deficit, after all he isn't giving this stuff away, french companies are selling it.

44 Aylios  8/02/07 2:37:59 pm reply quote

I do feel compelled to point out that the US govmnt is busily arming the rest of the middle east, so Sarko is really just filling any gaps that Bush might be leaving. Can't be unfair or anything, they all have an equal right to cause mass-murder and mayhem. All except Iran that is.

I wonder if anyone has considered the possibility that once all these countries are armed to the teeth with our weapons, that they might just decide that the US and Europe are greater enemies than Iran and join forces with Ahmadinejad and Syria.

45 new2thezoo  8/02/07 2:41:55 pm reply quote

OT:
Spencer’s last word from the speech to the YAF today:
“Come and kill me if you want, but I’m not going to submit.”

Kind of like Patrick Henry... "give me liberty or give me death."

CAIR heads exploding from a great speech.

46 docweasel  8/02/07 2:45:17 pm reply quote

_I_ am Ron Paul.

47 Sceptic Tank  8/02/07 2:49:05 pm reply quote

What happened to: millions for defense not one penny for tribute?

48 Dairenn  8/02/07 3:27:38 pm reply quote

Goddamn France.

49 itellu3times  8/02/07 3:37:31 pm reply quote

re: #47 Sceptic Tank

What happened to: millions for defense not one penny for tribute?

France is netting eu296m by the look of it. Maybe they kickback some of that to Bulgaria, along with their personnel. The sell Libya some missiles, the Saudis buy them at twice face value and quickly ship them to Gaza and maybe a few to Baghdad, and everyone's happy, right?
/sarc

50 ploome hineni  8/02/07 4:15:55 pm reply quote

re: #9 NinoBrown79

The links are coming too fast.

for whom?

51 Terp Mole  8/02/07 5:43:45 pm reply quote

...

52 Terp Mole  8/02/07 5:47:52 pm reply quote
re: #36 hous bin pharteen I think that would require balls. Something sorely lacking in the Socialist Proletariat Wonder land we live in.

Indeed. "National will and the moral courage to exercise it..." was how the Presidential Commission put it after Lockerbie.

Almost 20 years later, we've apparently learned nothing.


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