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The White House today announced a series of sanctions against Libya in a move designed to step up pressure on the country's leader, Moammar Gadhafi.
President Barack Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, announced the sanctions at a briefing this afternoon. He did not detail what they would include. But among other measures, the sanctions are expected to halt a brief revival of arms exports to Libya.
Arms exports were suspended to Libya more than 30 years ago in response to the North African country's support for terrorism. But in 2006, as part of renewed relations with Tripoli, the State Department lifted the blanket ban on arms exports and allowed the sale of so-called "nonlethal" defense equipment, such as riot gear for police and aircraft spare parts for the air force.
It's unclear precisely how much U.S. defense equipment has been sold to Libya since the restrictions were lifted five years ago, but it appears to be mostly minor equipment.
"The majority [of licenses] were for aircraft spare parts," a State Department spokesperson told AOL News.
The Libyan air force flies mostly Soviet Bloc-produced aircraft, but it also has U.S.-built transport aircraft, such as the C-130 lift aircraft, and smaller Gulfstream aircraft.
Since the arms sanctions were lifted, "we have not been asked to provide any C-130 parts to Libya," Lockheed Martin Corp. spokesman Peter Simmons told AOL News.
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. was not able to immediately comment on whether it has sold aircraft spare parts to Libya since sanctions were lifted.
Britain and other European countries have already suspended their arms exports to Libya, and some in Congress have been calling on the administration to take swift action to protest the Gadhafi regime's violent suppression of a popular uprising.
"When a government massacres its own people, it loses its legitimacy," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said today at a press briefing in Israel, according to Foreign Policy. "So, we should no longer recognize the existing government of Libya."
US Imposes Sanctions on Libya; What It Means for Arms Sales
Feb 25, 2011 – 5:59 PM
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