Extracts. Plans To Repatriate Thousands of Illegal Nigerian Immigrants Panafrican News Agency October 2, 2000 Lagos Nigeria and Libya have concluded plans to repatriate thousands of Nigerians residing illegally in the country, a presidential spokesman said. "The bulk of these Nigerians fall within the category of those that left in search of better opportunities abroad and ended up in Libya," Doyin Okupe, special assistant to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on media and publicity, said. The spokesman said reports reaching the government indicated that many of the illegal immigrants had conducted themselves in such a way as to "endanger the lives of others" in the host country, as well as their own lives. Sunday, 1 October, 2000: Lawers who are defending two Libyans on trial for the Lockerbie bombing will try to force an early halt to the proceedings. They will move that there is no case to answer when the prosecution completes its evidence in a fortnight's time. The prosecution is preparing to revise the original indictment by dropping a number of allegations it now believes it cannot sustain. The crown team dropped two senior CIA witnesses, George Johnson and Leonard Stauton, following last week's testimony of Abdul Majid Giaka, a Libyan defector and double agent who is the only person who can link the two defendants. The court was presented with evidence that the CIA regarded Giaka as unreliable and whose testimony was motivated by money - Giaka is in line to claim the $4m (�2.7m) reward offered by the FBI to anyone securing the conviction of the bombers. [The Sunday Times] --- Le Guide de la R�volution Libyenne, le colonel Mouammar Kadhafi, a entam� lundi une visite de travail de plusieurs jours en Egypte, dans le cadre d'une tourn�e qui devrait le conduire dans plusieurs autres capitales arabes. Le colonel Kadhafi a travers� lundi en fin de matin�e, le poste frontalier de M'said (1.600 km � l'extr�me Est de Tripoli). Malgre la lev�e de l'embargo a�rien impose � la Libye dans le cadre de l'affaire de Lockerbie, le Colonel Mouammar kadhafi a effectu� son d�placement en Egypte par la route pour montrer que les fronti�res entre les deux pays n'existent que sur les cartes, croit-on savoir. En Egypte, Il aura avec son h�te, M. Hosni Moubarak, une s�rie d'entretiens destin�s � relancer la coop�ration afro-arabe en vue de relever les d�fis de la globalisation. Les deux hommes d'Etat devront �galement examiner les r�sultats du sommet africain de Lom� au cours duquel le projet d'Union Africaine a �t� adopt� par les chefs d'Etat du continent, l'initiative de paix libyo-egyptienne pour le r�glement du conflit inter-soudanais, ainsi que la situation pr�valant en Palestine. Le dernier d�placement du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi en Egypte remonte � avril 1999, lors du premier sommet Afrique- Europe. Le dirigeant libyen et le rais egyptien se sont par contre rencontr�s pour la derni�re fois � Tripoli, en juillet dernier, rappelle-t-on. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
