Epstein Secrets

China says didn't know of arms sales talks with Gaddafi forces rl A pa guard at the entrance of the Libyan embassy in Beijing August 23 2011 By Chns Buckley BEIJING I Mon Sep 5, 2011 9:00am EDT (Reut

, Tripoli, indicated that Chinese companies offered to sell rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles and other arms with a total of some $200 million to Gaddafi's forces, despite a U.N. ban on such sales. A ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, said members of Gaddafi's government had come to China and held talk

antaged. China is the world's second-biggest oil consumer and last year obtained 3 percent of its imported crude from Libya. China did not use its U.N. Security Council veto power in March to block a resolution that authorized the NATO bombing campaign against Gaddafi's forces, but it condemned the expanding strikes

n relatively optimistic economic prospects. Kissinger is right that in the end NATO's operations in Libya looked like an effort to remove Moammar Gaddafi from office, not because NATO planes took out command-and- control facilities in Tripoli from which Gaddafi and his generals were ordering civilian

ans supporting the regime against opposition troops. The response to this concern, however, is not to oppose intervention in Syria but to support a U.N. Security Council resolution with clear parameters about a limited use of force. Such a resolution, which would have to follow a request by the Arab League, should

Gaddafi fall cost Russia tens of billions in arms deals REUTEK 'NO Nu. U. 2."! I ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia lost tens of billions of dollar

ruling council. The council has consolidated its grip on the country after Gaddafi's capture and death late last month. Russia supported an initial U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Gaddafi and his government, but abstained from a resolution in March that allowed military intervention. The natio