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Group in U.S. Hoped for Big Payday in Offer to Help Qaddafi
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| Last Edited | RP Nov 18, 2011 03:56pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | SCOTT SHANE and PENN BULLOCK |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Thursday, November 17, 2011 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Even as NATO bombed Libya, the Americans offered to make Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi their client — and charge him a hefty consulting fee. Their price: a $10 million retainer before beginning negotiations with Colonel Qaddafi’s representatives.
Neil C. Livingstone, 65, the terrorism specialist and consultant, said he helped put together the deal after hearing that one of Colonel Qaddafi’s sons, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, was interested in an exit strategy for the family. But he and his partners were not going to work for free, Mr. Livingstone said.
Mr. Livingstone, a television commentator and prolific author who moved home to Montana this year to try a run for governor, said he had long been a vocal critic of Colonel Qaddafi and was briefly jailed by his government on a visit to Libya in the 1970s. The goal of the consulting deal, he insisted, was not to save Colonel Qaddafi but to prevent a bloodbath in Libya by creating a quick way out for the ruler and his family. |
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