I feel another Haliburton contract coming on……. and I do wonder why Gaddafi didn’t meet Negroponte. Any thoughts?

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte left Libya on Wednesday without meeting Muammar Gaddafi after becoming the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the country in half a century, officials said.

Negroponte said he held “excellent” discussions with Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Shalgam and Ali Triki, Libya’s envoy on Chad and Sudan, during a 24-hour visit aimed principally at discussing the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region.

He said Washington wanted to build a new embassy and appoint an ambassador to continue the improvement in bilateral ties since Libya ended a mass destruction weapons plan in 2003, a move that helped end its long international isolation.

Officials declined to speculate why Negroponte left without meeting the oil-exporting north African country’s veteran leader Gaddafi, who has met a string of other U.S. official visitors over the past four years including State Department diplomats.
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