Libya financed the 2007 election campaign of French President Nicholas Sarkozy.
Latest news, World news Monday, April 4th, 2011What motive does French president Nicolas Sarkozy have to attack Libya? Could it be he can’t afford to repay his debt to the Libyan leader and people? Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi’s son told French President Nicolas Sarkozy to “give us back our money” used to finance his 2007 election victory. That claim gives Sarkozy a very strong motive to push for a no-fly zone and use of force against Libya. Sarkozy intends on reneging on his debt to Libya by destroying those who he is indebted to.
Seif al-Islam told Euronews that “we have all the details and are ready to reveal everything” as Qadhafi’s forces closed in on rebels in the eastern city of Benghazi who France recognised as Libya’s legitimate representatives.
“Sarkozy must first give back the money he took from Libya to finance his electoral campaign,” Qadhafi’s son said when asked about France, which has along with Britain been leading calls for military intervention in Libya.
“We funded it and we have all the details and are ready to reveal everything. The first thing we want this clown to do is to give the money back to the Libyan people.
“He was given assistance so that he could help them. But he’s disappointed us: give us back our money. We have all the bank details and documents for the transfer operations and we will make everything public soon.” The French presidency denied the allegation.
Libya’s state-run news agency Jana reported recently that it would soon publish a “grave secret” that would lead to Sarkozy’s downfall.
“We don’t want to kill, we don’t want revenge, but you, traitors, mercenaries, you have committed crimes against the Libyan people: leave, go in peace to Egypt.”
Also in 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair held talks with Muammar Gaddafi as BP (BP.L) sealed a big energy deal with Libya. In a sign of a developing economic relationship between Britain and Libya, which Blair’s spokesman called “hugely important”, BP negotiated an agreement to explore for natural gas in Libya, according to a Libyan official.
“There is a natural gas exploration deal worth $900 million,” said Shokri Ghanem, head of state-owned National Oil Corporation.
Blair described their discussions as “positive”. He said: “A few years back, Britain and Libya would never have had this relationship. Now, all of that has changed and it is a change for the benefit of Libya and the benefit of Britain and the wider region.”
Britain played a leading role in talks that led to Libya giving up its chemical, biological and nascent nuclear programme in late 2003, months after the invasion of Iraq. Tripoli returned to the international fold after it abandoned efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and agreed to pay damages for the Lockerbie bombing.
Mr Blair said that this justified a new relationship with Libya. “What Libya shows is that it is possible to go from a situation where Libya was an outcast in the international community to one in which the relationship is transformed and changed.”
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