Hmmm...came across this little gem on Libya from 2002

[T Roosevelt]

From the http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/newswires/2002_9_6.html#5">NTI Global Security Newswire


Libya: Tripoli “Working Hard” Toward Nuclear Weapons, Sharon Says

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said Libya is likely to be the first Arab state to develop nuclear weapons, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today (see GSN, June 27).

“Libya is working hard on developing an atom bomb and is apparently the Arab country furthest along in this,” Sharon told the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv. “For a long time we suspected they were working on this, but a few months ago, we were given final confirmation of this. They are progressing all the time.”

Several countries including Iraq and Pakistan might be providing assistance to Libya’s nuclear weapons program, Sharon said.

“Iraqi experts are running the show in Libya,” he said on Israeli television. “There might be Saudi money involved and there is definitely an involvement of North Korea” (Ross Dunn, Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 6).

Libya yesterday denied that it is working to develop any types of weapons of mass destruction and called on Israel to dismantle its own suspected arsenal of nuclear weapons (see GSN, Aug. 19).

“Libya does not own weapons of mass destruction and it does not want these weapons and is seeking to remove weapons of mass destruction from the whole area,” said Libyan Minister for African Unity Ali al-Triki. “If Sharon is sincere about (the removal of weapons of) mass destruction, let him agree to disarm his nuclear arsenal first, then he can talk about others.”

Libya does not have the money needed to develop weapons of mass destruction, Libyan Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassuna Shaush said. Sharon has “presented Washington with false information to stir up bad feeling between Arabs and the United States,” Shaush said (Beirut Daily Star, Sept. 6).

[grannylib]

1. I read somewhere that Libya had been trying for about a decade to

renew discussions with the US and wanted to get rid of any WMDs but that Washington gave them the cold shoulder; think they were waiting to make it happen on our timetable???

[Loonman]

2. If Sharon said the sky was blue

I'd still say he's lying.