Additionally Qaddafi had accumulated a large reserve of gold and had plans in motion to provide international banking and lending services to North African nations outside the IMF and their control.
Qaddafi and China had come to an oil futures agreement at the expense of Libya's traditional customer, France.
12 posted on 04/25/2014 10:33:59 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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