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Business > Big Oil Weakens Terror Victim Bill

  Big Oil Weakens Terror Victim Bill

The New York Times — Top executives of American oil companies met privately over the last year with Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, as they lined up contracts allowing them to tap into the country’s oil reserves. Now the Libyan government and the American oil industry are working Capitol Hill, with help from the Bush administration, in an effort to bypass a law allowing victims of state-sponsored terrorism to collect court judgments by seizing foreign assets in the United States or money from those governments held by American companies doing business with them.


posted on Apr 23, 2008 5:20 AM ()

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I was understanding this pretty well until I came to the end... I think my brain is a little fogged by pain pills (wrenched my back lifting heavy items improperly)... I think it's bad, but I'm not sure. You certainly have a LOT of articles. I'm glad they're short!!!
comment by sunlight on Apr 23, 2008 2:14 PM ()
Well, that's exactly what I thought it meant... I just wasn't sure!
reply by sunlight on Apr 23, 2008 4:19 PM ()
I am sorry for your pain. They say that pain inspires, but that doesn't work for me. You've caught me in transition. Accustomed to novel writing, I find the punchier journalistic style still beyond my grasp.
The Congress passed several measures to enable our terror victims to sue for damages. Now, the Congress is taking bribes [oil concessions] from Qadaffi for them to block these suits.
reply by bumpedoff on Apr 23, 2008 3:56 PM ()

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