Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
LIBYA will withdraw £4 billion of assets in Swiss banks, cut economic ties and stop supplying oil,
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Libya will take 7bn of assets out of Swiss banks and stop supplying oil to the country as an acrimonious dispute that started with the arrest of Colonel Gaddafi's son escalated.
Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The Libyan government has begun making payments into a compensation fund for victims of Libyan sponsored terrorism in the past.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Libya is to withdraw all its assets from Swiss banks in a row over the arrest of the Libyan leader's youngest son.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya said on Friday it would withdraw $7 billion of assets in Swiss banks, cut economic ties with Switzerland and stop supplying it with oil to protest against poor treatment of Libyan diplomats and businessmen.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
A diplomatic row has erupted again months after one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons was arrested in Switzerland.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Libya says it has halted oil shipments to Switzerland and withdrawn its money from Swiss banks. Libya's state news agency, JANA reported that the move was meant as a protest against the treatment of the country's diplomats and businessmen in Switzerland. The move comes three months after Libyan leader Muhammar Ghadhaffi's son was arrested in Geneva on suspicion of mistreating two domestic employees....
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Reuters Africa website reports that a US official has stated that Libya has deposited a substantial amount of money (though not yet the full agreed amount) in the compensation fund for, amongst others, the relatives of those killed in the Lockerbie disaster. The first few paragraphs of the report read: 'Libya has deposited a "substantial" sum of money into a compensation fund for victims of terrorism...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
TRIPOLI, Libya, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Libya halted oil shipments to Switzerland months after Swiss officials arrested a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for assault, an oil official says. Issam Zanati, chief executive of the Libyan oil firm Tamoil, said the decision was made in light of recent media reports but provided no other details, the BBC reported Friday. Tamoil said it supplies 20 percent of...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
MARLTON, N.J. & TRIPOLI, Libya--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Libya's state-owned oil company said it stopped crude deliveries to Switzerland on Wednesday, three months after the arrest of Moammar Khadafy's son in Geneva sparked a diplomatic crisis.
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Libya has decided to withdraw its funds, totaling some $7 billion, from Swiss banks, and also intends to stop exporting oil to the country and to sever all economic ties with it. The move follows what Libya calls "the Geneva police's improper ... October 10, 2008, 12:23 pm
France24 (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Libyan authorities have started depositing funds in an account to compensate US victims of terrorism as part of an agreement to normalize relations between the two countries, a senior US official said Thursday.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
US: Libya begins paying into fund to compensate families of US terror victims.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The official says Libya made a substantial payment into the fund on Thursday as part of an agreement reached earlier this year to fully restore ties between the United States and Libya. The money deposited into a U.S. account is not the full amount needed, but the official tells reporters it demonstrates Libya's willingness to resolve compensation claims.
