{"id":1101,"date":"2006-05-16T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:46","slug":"how_libya_stopp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"How Libya Stopped Loving The Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Iran, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110008381\" target=\"browser\">this article<\/a> in Opinion Journal which analyzes Libya&#8217;s surrender of it&#8217;s nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>How and why did Col. Gadhafi, the despotic, still dangerously capricious leader, decide to abandon a lifetime of revolution and terrorism and abandon the WMD programs he had pursued since seizing power in a coup in 1969? What role did American intelligence play in that decision? And how much change can Col. Gadhafi tolerate and still retain power?<\/p>\n<p>\nCol. Gadhafi&#8217;s hip, 34-year-old son, Saif-al-Islam, told me in Vienna&#8211;where he earned an M.B.A. and lives when he&#8217;s not carrying out tasks for his father, or studying for a doctorate in political philosophy at the London School of Economics&#8211;that his father changed course because he had to. &#8220;Overnight we found ourselves in a different world,&#8221; said Saif, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks. &#8220;So Libya had to redesign its policies to cope with these new realities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBut a review of confidential government records and interviews with current and former officials in London, Tripoli, Vienna and Washington suggest that other factors were involved. Prominent among them is a heretofore undisclosed intelligence coup&#8211;the administration&#8217;s decision in late 2003 to give Libyan officials a compact disc containing intercepts of a conversation about Libya&#8217;s nuclear weapons program between Libya&#8217;s nuclear chief and A.Q. Khan&#8211;that reinforced Col. Gadhafi&#8217;s decision to reverse course on WMD. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Discuss amongst yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/it-was-force-and-diplomacy-not-force.html\" target=\"browser\">Ann Althouse<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WSJ on how Libya gave up it&#8217;s nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}