Democrat Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the US Congress, will go to Libya to see if Gadhafi’s renunciation of nuclear weapons is genuine: Rep. Lantos to Check Libya’s WMD Program.

WASHINGTON - A senior Democratic congressman plans to go to Libya this weekend at the invitation of Moammar Gadhafi to check on the Libyan leader’s pledge to dismantle his nation’s nuclear weapons program.

Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., will meet with Libyan officials and possibly Gadhafi, whose decision to halt development of weapons of mass destruction marked a major policy shift by the North African leader.

Lantos, senior Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, will report his findings to Congress and to the Bush administration, his office said in a statement announcing the trip.

A separate congressional group headed by Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., is going to Libya, as well.

The visits signal a growing momentum to repair U.S. relations with Libya, although the administration has taken no action to remove Libya from its list of countries that support terrorism or to lift the economic sanctions the listing requires.