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THE UNITED STATES has slapped additional sanctions on Libya’s government, banning business with its foreign minister and 16 companies it owns or controls.
The Treasury Department said Tuesday it was freezing any assets linked to Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa to isolate Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists as the government continues its bloody crackdown on opposition.
Today’s designation of Moussa Koussa builds on the strong steps taken by the United States to apply targeted, financial pressure on the Kadhafi regime,” David Cohen, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in the statement, reports AFP.
The blacklisted companies are from Libya’s banking, oil, aviation and investment sectors.
They are: Afriqiyah Airways; National Oil Corporation; Libya Investment Authority; Libya Africa Investment Portfolio; Libyan African Investment Company; Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company; Libya Arab Foreign Bank; Economic and Social Development Fund Company; Gomhouria Bank; Al Wafa Bank; Agricultural Bank; National Commercial Bank; National Banking Corporation; Sahara Bank; Savings and Real Estate Investment Bank; and First Gulf Libyan Bank.
Additional reporting by AP
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Not to be sniffed at
Poor fella’s Pancake Tuesday was ruined!
If you can afford cocaine its gods way of telling you that you have way too much money and time to waste……
Then why are they shopping at the dollar store?
Im only a duck sure how would i know why they were shopping in that shop….
How does a duck know what direction south is?
I asked Mrs Duck and she reckons that we can sense the worlds magnetic field… but that doesn’t bother us any more we flew here some years ago and found the social welfare and free home to good an offer to ever leave…
So you have way too much money and time to waste. quack! quack! quack!
Two ducks flying over Northern Ireland. One says, “Quack! Quack!”. Other days, “I’m goin’ as quack as I can…”.
*says!!
Im an albino duck leave me alone
I think your both on coke !!!
Jesus lads, the quack is ninety in here tonight.
Poor fella that left it there is probably strung out of his head.
Why is your picture that of a goose?
Aaww, that has really cheered me up. You have GOT to love this police department. Polite and ever optimistic, what’s not to like?
Oh no, not cocaine. What am I on about? No, what do you call them? Raisins.
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