U.S Undersecretary of State John Bolton said Friday that Libya has been “aggressively pursuing” weapons of mass destruction since the suspension of U.N. sanctions against the country (see GSN, April 7).

“Since the sanctions were lifted, Libya has been able to exploit the normalization of the economy to be more aggressive in pursuing weapons of mass destruction,” Bolton said in London.  “For example, Libyan agents are trying to acquire dual-use technology.  That in itself is very worrying,” he said.

The United States has begun to investigate whether Libya has attempted to recruit Iraqi scientists who worked in former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s WMD programs, according to the London Independent.  The United Nations suspended sanctions against Libya after the country cooperated in the extradition of two men charged in the 1988 bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland (Kim Sengupta, London Independent, June 21).

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