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		Claimed in 1991 that witnesses would "prove the case beyond reasonable doubt." Then in 2005 admitted to journalists that his chief witness Gauci was highly unreliable.
		Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister 2003 - 2006.
		Has twice said in radio and television interviews that Libya was not responsible and reluctantly paid $2.7 billion compensation only "to buy peace and move forward."
	www.lockerbietruth.com (377 words)

	Shukri Ghanem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With advanced degrees in International Economics and Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the United States, Ghanem was previously in charge of the OPEC secretariat, and was the Director of its Research Division.
		Ghanem was seen as the main spokesman and architect of this rapprochement, which included paying $2.16 billion compensation in August 2003 to the families of the 270 people who died in the bombing, and renouncing weapons of mass destruction.
		It is unclear whether Shukri Ghanem's dismissal as prime minister in 2006 was a consequence of those controversial remarks he made two years earlier, this is unlikely however, as the General People's Congress branded him a "traitor to the revolution" for attempting to privatize much of the Socialist economy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shukri_Ghanem (494 words)

	Premier denies Libya's Lockerbie guilt
		London -- Libya's prime minister, Shukri Ghanem, brought the thaw in relations between his country and the West to a sudden standstill Tuesday by suggesting Libya was not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing and other major acts of terrorism, even though it agreed to pay compensation to victims' families and accepted responsibility in writing.
		Ghanem also said he believed that Libya was not responsible for the death of a British policewoman, Yvonne Fletcher, killed in front of the Libyan Embassy in 1984.
		Ghanem's remarks represented the first serious setback since the Libyan leader, Col. Moammar Khadafy, declared on Dec. 19 that Libya would abandon all attempts to develop nuclear, chemical and other unconventional weapons and was seeking a new relationship with the West.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/a/2004/02/25/MNG8657NNU1.DTL&type=printable (492 words)

	Libya: News And Views ليبيا وطننا : أخبار وآراء :
		Shukri Ghanem and company think that the Libyan people are lazy and should they have access to their national wealth, they will have no incentive to work and produce.
		Shukri Ghanem keeps spreading around this cruel myth that people, once they are left on their own in the streets, will become resourceful and industrious and, somehow, like magic, be able to create wealth.
		Shukri Ghanem, a crony capitalist par excellence, is fond of blaming the victims of crony capitalism, that is, the Libyan people, for their misfortunes.
	www.libya-watanona.com /news/n2006/mar/n08mar6e.htm (5151 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Libya seeks foreign investment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ghanem, an economist asked in June to head a government tasked to open up Libya's controlled economy, said: "these (US) companies themselves are seeking the lifting of unilateral sanctions and are negotiating with the US administration" to that effect.
		Ghanem said the rehabilitation of the infrastructure was ongoing, with plans to provide soon about 1 mm mobile telephone lines and another 1.5 mm land lines.
		But Ghanem said the high number of foreigners in the country was causing unemployment to rise and that his government would take action to stop it.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nta34228.htm (601 words)

	Tufts-Fletcher-News: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Recently appointed as prime minister of Libya, Fletcher graduate Shukri Ghanem is charged with the weighty task of re-introducing this Islamic nation to the world and shaking off the specters of isolationism and terrorism.
		Ghanem, who became prime minister in 2003, emerged in the mid-1990s as a member of a growing chorus of voices advocating change in cash-strapped Libya.
		Ghanem is not interested in trying to win over those who would indulge in corrupt political practices.
	fletcher.tufts.edu /news/2005/01/libya.shtml (833 words)

	Zawya.com \| Middle East Business News and Company Directory
		Shukri Ghanem, in combative mode over the last few weeks, has aggressively defended Libya's fledgling privatisation process and hit back at critics in the state sector, whom he accused of haemorrhaging state funds.
		Ghanem was backed up by Economy and Trade Secretary Abdelqader Kheir, who focused on the economic incentives to open up the state sector to private ownership, arguing that this would stimulate competition and strengthen the financial sector.
		Ghanem certainly appears self-assured, probably buoyed by the public support he received from his boss last month when Qadhafi himself brought up the issue of the misuse of state funds.
	www.zawya.com /printstory.cfm?storyid=ZAWYA20051228131029&SecMarkets/pagEquities&l=000000051228 (673 words)

	Libya to abolish $5bn of subsidies \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		The move, which Ghanem said would come "soon", is part of an effort to get the north African state back on its feet following more than two decades of isolation and international sanctions, imposed because its leader, Muammar Gadaffi, was accused of sponsoring terrorism.
		Last year, Gadaffi charged Ghanem with opening up the country to outside investors to bring in badly needed foreign currency, which had all but dried up because of UN and US sanctions.
		Ghanem said the measures - which in addition to electricity and fuel would include food items such as cooking oil, flour, rice, sugar and tea - were necessary to "strengthen and liberalise the economy".
	www.energybulletin.net /3000.html (596 words)

	Middle East Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ghanem is no longer part of the cabinet but will head the state-owned Libya National Oil Company, television said.
		Ghanem, who studied in the United States, had tried to move the socialist economy towards a free market model, but his policies were roundly criticised by Libya's local People's Committees, which implement government policy.
		Ghanem's successor Baghdadi is a 60-year-old former doctor, who has previously served as health minister.
	middle-east-online.com /english/?id=15909 (450 words)

	africa.iafrica.com \| african_business Libya to abolish state subsidies
		The move, which Ghanem said would come "soon," is part of an effort to get the north African state back on its feet following more than two decades of isolation and international sanctions, imposed because its leader Moamer Khadafi was accused of sponsoring terrorism.
		Ghanem said the sharply higher wages would also apply to foreign companies operating in Libya.
		Last year, Khadafi charged Ghanem with opening up the country to outside investors to bring in badly needed foreign currency, which had all but dried up because of United Nations and US sanctions.
	africa.iafrica.com /african_business/387022.htm (315 words)

	Islamica Community Forums - Libya "bought peace" with the West
		Shukri Ghanem told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the issue over Wpc Fletcher was "settled".
		Dr Ghanem told Today he agreed with the Libyan lawyer who investigated the case who said there was no real evidence the bullet came from the embassy, and no proof a Libyan was to blame.
		Former British ambassador to Tripoli Oliver Miles said Mr Ghanem was returning to a line Libya had previously taken, and continued to accept responsibility for the actions of their officials without necessarily admitting having control over them.
	www.islamicaweb.com /forums/showthread.php?t=15486 (799 words)

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		Shukri Ghanem delivered a speech to the General People’s Congress.
		Ibrahim attacked Ghanem, saying that nobody has the right to criticize the People’s Congress, let alone Ghanem who did not just criticize it but also wanted to introduce a new interpretation of the People’s Congress, which is not subject to any interpretations.
		Ghanem was labeled an infidel of the People’s Congress after that speech.
	www.rsf.org /IMG/doc/050523mansouri_article_GB.doc (412 words)

	News Story
		Shukri Ghanem comments in a radio interview have provoked outrage, just weeks after moves began to thaw the relationship between Britain and Libya.
		But now the Prime Minister of Libya, Shukri Ghanem, says the country had no links to the tragedy and only agreed to pay the compensation to end crippling economic sanctions.
		Jim Swire, who lost his daughter Flora in the Lockerbie bombing, says he is confused by Dr Ghanem's comments, pointing out that Libya had been required by the United Nations to accept responsibility for the bombing before sanctions were finally lifted last year.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/02/24/cache/81322.html (272 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is no doubt that the American resolutions issued yesterday released the tension that followed the statements of Libyan Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem.
		Ghanem denied his country's involvement in the Pan-Am Lockerbie disaster, justifying the compensation payment for the victims' families as a way of buying peace.
		Shukri Ghanem's announcements expressed a Libyan exhaustion from the delay of the American reward.
	english.daralhayat.com /OPED/02-2004/Article-20040228-fcc7632c-c0a8-01ed-003d-b375ffb78750/story.html (1328 words)

	World Investment News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Several investment conferences were held in different European and Arab countries at the end of 2001 and start of 2002, and a growing stream of visiting foreign trade delegations, ministers and heads of state has followed.
		Shukri Ghanem, explains this incipient private sector as a healthy sign of the Libyan entrepreneurship: "Libya has traditionally been a country of traders, merchants, and entrepreneurs.
		This will prove to be a very difficult challenge for the Libyan industry, because as Dr. Ghanem, the Minister of Economy and Trade acknowledge, "We have a public sector that has delayed the Libyan economy and the Libyan investor and the performance of it is very sluggish.
	www.winne.com /mena/libya/report/2004/cr03.php (1617 words)

	Libya paid Lockerbie compensation to 'buy peace'
		In an interview with Radio 4's 'Today' programme, Dr Shukri Ghanem suggested that sanctions against Libya had had a crippling effect on the nation's economy, forcing it to adopt a policy of buying its way out of trouble.
		Dr Ghanem went on to say that his country did not accept responsibility for the death of Wpc Yvonne Fletcher.
		However, Mr Ghanem said that there was no evidence to definitively find that the shot that killed the policewoman had been fired from the Libyan embassy.
	www.4ni.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?id=26168 (438 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Libya: covering a retreat
		The comments by the Libyan Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem are seen in diplomatic circles as a way for Libya to cover its retreat on a range of polices.
		Mr Ghanem's statement that this was "settled" contradicts his foreign minister's assurance in London that "enhanced co-operation" in an investigation would be forthcoming.
		Overall, however, Mr Ghanem's remarks are very much in line with Libya's previous tactics of putting up a smokescreen to hide the fundamental changes in its position.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk_politics/3516601.stm (617 words)

	Guardian \| Libya repudiates PM's Lockerbie comments (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mr Ghanem, in a BBC interview on Tuesday, said that Libya did not accept responsibility for the bombing or the shooting.
		Mr Ghanem's interview threatened to upset negotiations between Libya, Britain and the US in which the Libyan leader, Muammar Gadafy, has promised to remove all weapons of mass destruction in return for re-admission to the international community.
		Referring to the prime minister's statement that Libya had not acknowledged responsibility in a letter to the UN, the Libyan news agency said "recent statements contradicting or casting doubt on these positions are inaccurate and regrettable".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4867075-111998,00.html (189 words)

	Libyan PM wooing US oil companies FT INTERVIEW SHUKRI MOHAMED GHANEM: - Zawya.com \| Middle East Business News
		Mr Ghanem said executives from the Libya National Oil Corporation were working on the auction of afurther 40 licences, expected to be launched in the next two months.
		The opening of Libya's oil and gas sector to greater foreign investment has been swift since the US lifted sanctions last year after Libya paid compensation to the families of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and a made a commitment to end its development of weapons of mass destruction.
		Mr Ghanem denied any bias towards US companies, particularly Occidental, which along with Amerada Hess formed the quartet of US companies operating in Libya before they quit the country when President Ronald Reagan imposed sanctions in 1986.
	www.zawya.com /story.cfm/sidFFT1050329D4BF5D7 (553 words)

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		Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem said on Sunday, November 23, 2003, that heavy industry will be a target sector.
		Ghanem, former economy and trade minister, replaced Mubarak Abdallah Al-Shamikh as prime minister this past June following Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s decision to reform the country's socialist-based economy.
		The UN Security Council ended 11-year-old sanctions against Libya in September after the Arab state finalized compensation agreements for the Pan Am and UTA airline bombings it was held responsible for in the late eighties.
	www.ibfnet.net /newsdisplay.asp?news_id=15 (246 words)

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		Shukri Ghanem told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the issue over Pc Fletcher was "settled".
		Dr Ghanem told Today there was no evidence to support the claim the fatal shot came from inside the Libyan Embassy.
		Dr Ghanem said he considered the Fletcher case to be closed.
	www.kommersant.ru /FirstFaces/25022004.html (623 words)

	Shukri Ghanem: Israel is a mistake in the political geography
		Shukri Ghanem: Israel is a mistake in the political geography
		The Libyan foreign minister Shukri Ghanem in Vienna yesterday considered that the major superpowers use of the military force to ensure the security of its oil supplies come up with negative results because this will lead to terrorism.
		Ghanem said in a seminar on oil, held by the OPEC that most of the organization's member states " have become less stable as a result of the acts of the major superpowers which deny peoples of certain oil producing countries their right to self determination and to live peacefully."
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/040917/2004091715.html (344 words)

	Libya eager for foreign investment, ties with US within eight months
		TRIPOLI, Sept 28 (AFP) - Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem said Sunday Libya was seeking to lure foreign investment, particularly in the oil sector, and to resume normal relations with the United States within eight months.
		Ghanem said the rehabilitation of the infrastructure was ongoing, with plans to provide soon about one million mobile telephone lines and another 1.5 million land lines.
		He said the budget for development in 2003 amounted to 3.7 billion dinars (2.8 billion dollars) while that of the oil and gas sectors reached two billion dollars (1.5 billion dollars).
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/av/Qlibya-us-economy.R08m_DSS.html (626 words)

	Libya moves to abolish state subsidies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The move, which Ghanem said would come "soon," is part of an effort to get the north African state back on its feet following more than two decades of isolation and international sanctions, imposed because its leader Muammar Gaddafi was accused of sponsoring terrorism.
		In an interview with AFP, Ghanem said the measures - which in addition to electricity and fuel would include food items such as cooking oil, flour, rice, sugar and tea - were necessary to "strengthen and liberalise the economy."
		Last year, Gaddafi charged Ghanem with opening up the country to outside investors to bring in badly needed foreign currency, which had all but dried up because of United Nations and US sanctions.
	www.namibian.com.na /2004/october/marketplace/047630913E.html (352 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Libya's reforming premier sacked (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Libyan Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem - seen as one of the key architects of the end of decades of international isolation - has been sacked.
		Correspondents say Mr Ghanem's policies were popular with business people but opposed by local committees responsible for carrying out government policy.
		But his gradual privatisation of state-owned companies, as well as the decrease in government subsidies to electricity and petrol, put him at odds those of his parliamentary counterparts loyal to socialist ideals.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/4777332.stm (239 words)

	Tufts E-News -- Orchestrating Libya’s Metamorphosis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		[01.10.05] After decades of being walled-off from the world by sanctions and a history of terrorism, Libya is emerging from its authoritarian confines with Tufts-educated prime minister Shukri Ghanem (F’73) at the helm.
		Libya’s oil reserves, while estimated to be vast, are largely unexplored – all the more exciting to investors from abroad.
		Sites ranging from pristine coastline and vast deserts to the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna are ripe for foreign visitors – and foreign spending.
	enews.tufts.edu /stories/011005OrchestratingLibyasMetamorphosis.htm (826 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| UK 'must halt Libya talks plan' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Libyan premier Shukri Ghanem also denied blame for the shooting of Wpc Yvonne Fletcher.
		There seemed to be a disparity with the Libyan government's letter to the UN Security Council saying it accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials, he added.
		Earlier, Dr Ghanem was asked why Libya had paid compensation over Lockerbie but not apologised.
	newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu /archives/2004-02-26-17-55-19/web/NBproxy.cgi?sentence=1221 (675 words)

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