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Saadi Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, speaks during a press conference in Tripoli on January 2010.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions on a South African woman accused of supporting the son of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in his efforts to overturn the country's transition towards democracy.
The U.S. Treasury said it was targeting 40-year-old Dalene Sanders because she was moving money from banks accounts in Uganda at the direction of Saadi Gaddafi, the former dictator's son. In February, she also met with Ugandan officials to discuss political asylum in that country for Saadi Gadhafi.
Cynthia Vanier is being held in a Mexican jail on suspicion of attempting to help members of the Gadhafi family out of Libya as the Libyan regime was crumbling. CBC's Dave Seglins talks with Vanier about her situation.
"We are determined to oppose all those who seek to foster violence, fear, or instability in Libya," David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.
The Treasury's designation of Sanders is part of its broader goal of preventing funds that belong to the Libyan people from being misused, Cohen said.
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As a result of Treasury's action, Americans are prohibited from dealing with Sanders and any of her assets under U.S. jurisdiction are frozen.
Orly Weinerman claims she had a romantic relationship with Saif Gadhafi, the jailed son of the former Libyan dictator, and appeals for his release. NBC News' Karl Bostic reports.
After his father’s regime was toppled, Saadi Gadhafi fled to Niger where he has been under house arrest. The new Libya government has moved to extradite him.
In February, he gave a phone interview to the Al Arabiya news in which said a popular uprising is brewing and his return to Libya is inevitable.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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All Uganda needs is another son of a dictator. By the way, where is Idi Amin Dada nowadays? Still in France perchance?
I'm pretty sure he's been dead for awhile. Can't remember when I read about it though.
He never was in France, he first fled to Libya in '79, the Saudi Arabia in '80, where he died in 2003...
The "inevitability" of his return will be challenged solely by Westerners; all the rebel nomads have taken the Libyan arsenal to Syria. This is how I imagine freedom currently works there.
Then, where is the son?
Why is this even a concern of the United States in first place. Libya can manage their own business unless there was some pack between the US government & a special interest group during the take down of their leaders. Just remembering when the CIA help the Taliban to power, would say that one back fired.
Obama refuses to take out the people responsible for the murders of the Libyan ambassador but going after a third party out side of the country. Hell we have cabinet seat officials that have committed crimes of fraud and tax evasion who are still at their positions. Obamas was on Libya did not turn out like Hilary and obama thought. The war lords now control the country and it is worse off than it was before. But the U.S. is still sending billions to another waste land in the middle east
The US is causing another war, this is what it wants and needs, leave Iran and the world alone and start to worry about your own lack of money, the world is sick of you butting in to everyone else's business.
The US is getting pretty scary to those old enough to remember the Nazis. They are so sensitive when people discribe our presence as a similar to the regime as the fuhrer once had. Cleansing the world of evil, they spread an even more dangerous one.
another instance of none of the United States' business
I thought common sense would prevail in our Government after the Murder of our Ambassador in Libya. What the Hell do we care about Libya now after that?? We KNOW that the #@!#$%^$@!#$% can't be trusted. Let Gadhafi's son take over where his father left off. Those people need a Foot on their Throat to keep them in line. They don't want Democracy, Democracy is a joke going around in Libya. The Taliban will take over that country too in the end.
What else, America trying to keep libian money!
American greed at its finest, keep every ones money that does not see it their way. Reminds me of the American Indian and what the gov't did to them, no wonder their fight with the white man in washington is forever......Put that in your pipe and smoke it. LOL