
French President Nicolas Sarkozy defended the state visit of the Libyan Terrorist Thug explaining that it was the duty of France to encourage nations that are moving towards respectability that have renounced terrorism.
Libya started its move back into the into relations with the international community in 2003 with its decision to dismantle its nuclear arms program and paid what some people have said is Blood Money to family members of Pan Am 103 and to provide compensation to the families of the 1989 bombing of a UTA passenger jet.
"The air is crisp and very cold, the wind is damp with just a sprinkling of snow. Today as each day is, it is humbling to look around me. I know what is important." In memory of Andrea V. Rosenthal, who was murdered while a passenger aboard Pan Am 103