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2011-08-24 09:49 AM
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Coalition governments have already begun facilitating business relationships with the rebel council/h3
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Major businesses are gunning for first dibs on Libyarsquo;s natural resourcesnbsp;asa href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/dash-for-profit-in-postwar-libya-carveup-2342798.html" a new race to turn a profit out of the war-torn nation begins/a. Many business leaders, most with close connections to their respective governments, are planning to send representatives to Benghazi to meet leaders of the Transitional National Council (span data-scayt_word="TNC" data-scaytid="3"TNC/span)./p
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img align="right" src="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ly-map1.gif" /International oil companies from Europe, America, Russia, China, and the Middle East, many with previous business ties in Libya,nbsp;aa href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/22/international-oil-companies-eager-to-restart-libyan-operations/"re preparing to resume exploration, drilling, and production/a as soon as it is safe and span data-scayt_word="Gadhafi" data-scaytid="5"Gadhafi/span is out. Billions of dollars are being invested in Libyannbsp;oil fields, which are currently producing a 10th of the 1.6 million barrels a day that were exported pre-conflict./p
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There is also an intense lobbying effort for the span data-scayt_word="multibillion-dollar" data-scaytid="7"multibillion-dollar/span reconstruction contracts that US and NATO governments are expected to issue once security is restored.nbsp;rdquo;It is still too fluid a situation in Libya to be able to say exactly what we are doing,rdquo; one official at a company involved in reconstruction efforts in Iraq told emThe Independent/em. ldquo;If business goes back to Libya, we will undoubtedly span data-scayt_word="follow.”" data-scaytid="2"follow.rdquo;/span/p
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Expectedly, those governments involved in the air campaign and proxy war to oust span data-scayt_word="Gadhafi" data-scaytid="6"Gadhafi/span have had a jump start in facilitating the corporatist industrial and reconstruction plans. France and Germany have already begun trade negotiations with the span data-scayt_word="TNC" data-scaytid="4"TNC/span, and Britain and America mdash; which has spent a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/us-military-intervention-in-libya-cost-at-least-896-million-.html"nearly one billion dollars/a on the war mdash; are sure to follow suit./p