Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Etudiant
The GNP numbers were dodgier than hell, the infrastructure projects never happened (but the money did disappear)
I know people who were doing business there and it was dreadful - a tiny clique around Qaddafi stealing everything and the main man several cents short of the dollar
Wrong they did, including a great water project that NATO bombed.
UK / France attacked Libya because Sarkozy wanted more cash for his election projects, Gadaffi wanted more cash from Oil companies with oil at £100 plu a barrel. Gadaffi told Sarkozy he would go public on his corruption.