U.S. Considering Easing Travel Restrictions on Libya

The United States is considering whether to extend the current ban on travel to Libya, which is set to expire Nov. 24, for only an additional 90 days instead of for a full year, U.S. officials said yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 3).

A 90-day extension of the ban would give the Bush administration additional time to reconsider overall U.S. policy toward Libya, which the United States agreed to do after Tripoli formally took responsibility this year for the 1988 bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, according to Reuters. The Bush administration might choose to end the ban altogether if Libya assures the United States that it is no longer developing weapons of mass destruction or supporting terrorism, the officials said (Reuters/New York Times, Nov. 13).

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