It is now hard to see African heads of state rushing back to Libya.
That same year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Libya.
Any action to prejudice the interests of the American oil companies, said a State Department spokesman, would make it difficult for Libya to develop the kind of relations with America that it claims to want.
Working with our coalition partners in the Contact Group which was stood up in London yesterday with the Secretary of State, broad number of partners involved in that effort looking at the political future of Libya and working with the opposition.
Libya remains on the State Department list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
Mr Romney said Mr Biden's statement in the recent vice-presidential debate that the administration was not told about requests for extra security in Libya contradicted the sworn testimony of state department officials.
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Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam visited Washington, and his suave and murderous intelligence chief Musa Kusa (Michigan State University class of '78, and more recently Libya's foreign minister) was allowed back into the U.S. All sanctions ended.
While at the Department of State, Ms. Harrington also launched similar efforts in Iraq and Libya.
The lifting of the sanctions makes most commercial business, investment and trade with Libya possible but maintains controls on exports to Libya in accordance with the State Department's State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
This week President Bush sent Congress a report on Libya which should lead to its removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The restraints on U.S. exports to Libya under the State Department's terrorism list prohibit the sale of so-called dual-use goods -- items that could be used for military purposes -- such as ammunition and some goods related to civil aviation.
Those moves paved the way for the lifting of economic sanctions, the restoration of diplomatic relations with Washington in 2006 and Libya's removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism the following year.
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Gadhafi in 2008 and "thought he was serious" about Libya's turnabout.
In November, a Tunisian court rejected a request to release al-Mahmoudi and decided to extradite him despite arguments from his defense team that the lack of stability in Libya means he would not have a fair trial, according to Tunisian state news reports.
He spent most of his career in the Middle East and North Africa, including postings to Israel, Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, in addition to serving as the deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Libya from 2007 to 2009, during the rule of Moammar Gadhafi, according to the State Department.
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China, too, is eager to get in, with state controlled CNPC vying to purchase Canadian minnow Verenex, which has found 2 billion barrels of oil and gas in Libya's Ghadames basin.
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