President Bush has dispatched to Libya the highest-ranking diplomat to visit the North African nation since Tripoli gave up key arms programs in 2003, the State Department said on Monday.

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician on Tuesday during a hearing before the Tripoli Criminal Court in Libya pleaded not guilty to intentionally infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.

A Muslim jurist writing a few centuries ago on the subject of Islam and government would have commenced his treatise by distinguishing three types of political systems.

Propagators of the U.S. lies for invading Iraq have come to claim that the time since the Iraqi elections on January 30, 2005 has been the most dramatic moment the Middle East has known in 30 years and more. They call it a magical transformation.

In the last twenty-five years the Muslim world has witnessed a very significant increase in the appeal of Islamism among their people.

Like a horde of angry animals, Tripoli's black and white taxis circle its central Green Square, each vehicle in a hurry to reach its destination. Oddly, only a few appear to actually be carrying any passengers:

The very mention of Libya and its dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, opens old wounds in the Capital Region.

With ties between the two countries steadily warming up, Americans are ready to do business in Libya again. But is Libya ready for them?

Here's an unexpectedly telling window into poor governance in the Third World: the Egyptian or Chadian diplomat who racks up hundreds of parking tickets.

WHY GEORGE W. BUSH'S GRAND STRATEGY FOR REMAKING THE WORLD HAD TO CHANGE

"If there is to be any way out of the impasse, it will have to come from imagining giving Muslims their right to self-determination and self-governance rather than deceiving them in the name of “Islamic democracy.

On May 15 the U.S. State Department announced its intention to remove Libya from the U.S. list of states sponsors of terrorism and upgrade the diplomatic relationship between the two countries to the level of embassies.

When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice released a statement May 15 saying, “The United States is restoring full diplomatic relations with Libya,” the gateway for Libyan students to attend U.S. universities was reopened for the first time in more than 20 years.

Libya is holding off on making hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to the families of Americans killed in the bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

At a hearing in Tripoli the defence team representing a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV-tainted blood, have said psychological-torture measures were used against the nurses.

It appears Britain is campaigning for the award for the world’s most credulous nation.

Helen Thomas’ latest book, Watchdogs of Democracy? is a reflection on and lamentation about the profession of American journalism today. Its subtitle is “The waning Washington press corps and how it has failed the public.”

“Economic reform in Libya is forecast to continue, albeit at a slow pace and slightly diluted. Implementation will suffer from erratic decision making. However, reform of the hydrocarbon sector will be fast tracked.”

US President George W. Bush, speaking last month at Vienna summit, said: “What is past is past and what’s ahead is a hopeful democracy in the Middle East.”

After two decades of abandonment and restoration the political relations between Libya and USA, that has been enhanced by raising name of Libya from list of countries that care terrorism recently, the business tongue became sound loudly.

Remember that before Bush invaded Iraq, President Putin of Russia said that if he invades Iraq he could set off World War Three.

"The media and education apparatuses have been effectively used to manipulate popular perception in a manner that discourages resistance to fascism and encourages servitude.”

Libya has the right to demand that Italy pay for damages caused during more than 30 years of "senseless" colonial rule, Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said on Monday.

The re-trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of having infected Libyan children with AIDS is set to resume at a criminal court in Tripoli.

Former Chad leader Hissene Habre is "Africa's Pinochet", according to pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW).