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Lo and behold, at the end of 2007, the u.k. finally gets around to signing-- to signing this agreement and it's at that point that the bp deal starts going forward. >> paul: we also have a statement from gadhafi's son who wanted to open up to the west and well-known in british circles, that the oil contract was at issue. >> no, it's clear both from what not only from what the libyans have said. save gadhafi, but also from correspondence obtained from the london sunday times and jack straw writes to scottish counterparts talking about the overwhelming interests of the u.k. in getting this agree...

20-some years ago. here is the question, if gadhafi wants to come in from the cold, maybe shouldn't we just move on. >> i would say 270 reasons not to do that and those are the 270 people who are murdered on palm am 103. there's no question as oil companies go, there are all kinds of dangerous places with regimes that we don't necessarily like which have spotty human rights records and it's also in the u.k.'s interest to have a good relation to the united states. this was a signal case in the war on terrorism so there was a line to be drawn and the british crossed it in my mind. >> paul: thank...

20-some years ago. here is the question, if gadhafi wants to come in from the cold, maybe shouldn't we just move on. >> i would say 270 reasons not to do that and those are the 270 people who are murdered on palm am 103. there's no question as oil companies go, there are all kinds of dangerous places with regimes that we don't necessarily like which have spotty human rights records and it's also in the u.k.'s interest to have a good relation to the united states. this was a signal case in the war on terrorism so there was a line to be drawn and the british crossed it in my mind. >> paul: thank...

>> paul: let's take this in turn. off shore in libya, 900 million dollar project. bp said it was something like, equivalent of 2000 blocks, exploration blocks in the gulf of mexico. >> oh, it's absolutely enormous because these are oil blocks right off the coast which libya itself doesn't have to take-- the libyan oil company doesn't have the technology to explore, but they need a big western oil company who can do the deep water drilling. the question, how did bp get itself to get these contracts. >> paul: that's the question, because the british deny any quid pro quo between the release of m...

Lo and behold, at the end of 2007, the u.k. finally gets around to signing-- to signing this agreement and it's at that point that the bp deal starts going forward. >> paul: we also have a statement from gadhafi's son who wanted to open up to the west and well-known in british circles, that the oil contract was at issue. >> no, it's clear both from what not only from what the libyans have said. save gadhafi, but also from correspondence obtained from the london sunday times and jack straw writes to scottish counterparts talking about the overwhelming interests of the u.k. in getting this agree...