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U.S. ratchets up pressure on Libya
Politico44 ^ | 2/26/11 | ABBY PHILLIP

Posted on 02/26/2011 9:05:35 AM PST by ColdOne

The executive order issued by the president targets the Libyan government’s central bank and its sovereign wealth fund, an action that Obama said is aimed at the government, while leaving the “assets that belong to the people of Libya” intact.

The measures apply to Qadhafi’s family — his three sons, Khamis, Mutassim and Saif Al-Islam and his daughter Ayesha — unnamed members of the Libyan government, and perpetrators of human rights violations in Libya.

For now, the order affects only those five individuals, but Stuart Levey, undersecretary of Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said his department would work in conjunction with the State Department to identify the names of others to whom the sanctions should apply.

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1 posted on 02/26/2011 9:05:37 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Bull Obama.

Nothing is afraid of the Obamaloon and his clueless minions.


2 posted on 02/26/2011 9:07:11 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ColdOne
I guess that $5M to Obama is not enough to keep the rest of the country away form Obmar Kdaffy and his thugs.
3 posted on 02/26/2011 9:12:20 AM PST by mountainlion (The government is not my god no matter how much they preach.)
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To: ColdOne

Oh yeah! This will save a lot of lives. After all look how well it worked against Saddam and is working against Ahmadinejad.


4 posted on 02/26/2011 9:15:32 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: ColdOne

LOL! Politico hasn’t gotten anything right since they were established.


5 posted on 02/26/2011 9:15:58 AM PST by hflynn
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To: ColdOne

Obama is all Hat, no cattle.. no chaps, no saddle, no gun, no holster, no bandanna, no mustache, no icy glare.. and NO HORSE..


6 posted on 02/26/2011 9:18:08 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: ColdOne

Pathetic absolute pathetic minuscule lip service to appease the critics but just short of rocking ghadaffi’s world. What is WRONG w/ this usurper conman sitting in the WH???


7 posted on 02/26/2011 9:18:45 AM PST by parisa
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To: parisa

“What is WRONG w/ this usurper conman sitting in the WH???”

Nothing it’s just his liberal Harvard education showing. That school really should hire a few conservatives to straighten it out.


8 posted on 02/26/2011 9:22:54 AM PST by A Strict Constructionist (Oligarchy...never vote for the Ivy League candidate.)
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To: ColdOne

Google “Obama Declares National State of Emergency Over Libya”


9 posted on 02/26/2011 9:23:20 AM PST by NorwegianViking
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To: parisa

What is wrong is that he is in the White House.


10 posted on 02/26/2011 9:24:20 AM PST by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: ColdOne
...while leaving the “assets that belong to the people of Libya” intact.

And that is a very big loophole....

11 posted on 02/26/2011 9:25:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: hosepipe
"...NO HORSE.."

But plenty of horse sh**.

12 posted on 02/26/2011 9:30:17 AM PST by verity
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To: ColdOne

Pixieguard


13 posted on 02/26/2011 9:30:20 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: ColdOne
How does Obama go about the confiscation of funds from an International Bank, against a sovereign ruler?

Based on “human rights” violations? According to what law and what court?

14 posted on 02/26/2011 9:33:46 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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To: mewzilla

Yes it is a big loophole. unreal


15 posted on 02/26/2011 9:55:49 AM PST by ColdOne (AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
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To: ColdOne

The only people in the world that fear the Obama administration are the American taxpayers. The only threat that anyone has taken seriously is his threat to unleash IRS agents on the middle class.

No foreign power takes Obama seriously. He is perceived rightly as a buffoon by every world leader, even the ones who are buffoons themselves.


16 posted on 02/26/2011 10:01:28 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: ColdOne

There’s not a damn thing we can do. We had our civil war, too.


17 posted on 02/26/2011 10:23:57 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ColdOne
Wow! It's almost as intense as our pressure on Israel now.

Go Muammar!

ML/NJ

18 posted on 02/26/2011 10:39:43 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ColdOne
U.S. ratchets up pressure on Libya

He must have sent Biden to Ragusa in Southern Sicily to look south and say, "Tsk, Tsk!"

19 posted on 02/26/2011 11:21:07 AM PST by stevem
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