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Subject: 'We Never Received the 20 Billion'
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ummati 16.01.12 - 08:40pm
by Jason Ditz, Antiwar Forum January 13, 2012 * +

ummati 16.01.12 - 08:40pm
Governor al-Seddiq Omar al-Kabir, the head of Libyas Central Bank, denied reports coming out of the nations foreign ministry that the West had returned 20 billion in seized assets to the new Libyan government. * +

ummati 16.01.12 - 08:41pm
We never received the 20 billion, Kabir reported, addressing the claims made by Foreign Minister Ashur bin Khayyal earlier this week that the money, held by the US, France, and other EU member nations, had already been returned. * +

ummati 16.01.12 - 08:41pm
The 20 billion was supposed to be the first of an estimated 150 billion in overseas cash returned to the Libyan government after it was frozen by UN Security Council sanctions during the NATO summer attack on Libya. * +

ummati 16.01.12 - 08:41pm
The US has claimed it freed up more than 30 billion of Libyan assets to be made available to the new NATO-backed regime, but it seems that freeing it up and actually giving it to them are two very different things, and the central bank is still waiting on the actual money. * +

ummati 16.01.12 - 08:41pm
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/13/libyan-central-bank-west-still-hasnt-returned-20-billion-in-freed-assets/ * +

ummati 16.01.12 - 08:42pm
wonder what happened to the money?? * +

guillium 16.01.12 - 08:43pm
That's cos I have it...see ya in the Bahamas! The c*cktails are on me! * +

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