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Blocking funds that gadhafi could use to continue his violent crackdown, the treasury department has frozen at least $30 billion in libyan government assets, the largest amount ever blocked, it says, under a sanctions program. gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to govern, and it is time for him to go without further violence or delay. reporter: the u.s. ambassador is reaching out to opposition groups in libya, assessing who might lead up a post-goodry governor. some senators tell cnn they should help the rebels directly. the citizens government and support for them with both humanitarian assistance and i would provide them with arms. reporter: administration officials say it s way too early to talk about arming the opposition, but they are concerned the idea of a no-fly zone. a former state department real department says that s complicated. ....
Acknowledge that he turns over the nuclear weapons program. what he went on to say i think we went too far. i think that s right. there s a series of things that we could do. one was opening our embassy and re-establishing diplomatic relations, as you say. the real policy debate, an i participated in those policy debates, reinvolved around whether or not they should be taken off the state-sponsored terrorism list, a list held and reported to congress by the state department. there was a vociferous debate inside the administration. part of that had to do with taking them off the list became linked to the payment of the pan am flight 103 victims. the families did get compensated. i don t think they ever felt it was sufficient and i m not sure even with that we should have taken them off the list and that was my view at the time. in the end it was decid to take them off the state sponsor list, but frankly, wolf, we had concerns about it which is what prompted me to go visit gadhafi in 200 ....
i m optimistic because the statement has been made from the president, from the department of state that there is maybe a serious action against this butcher regime. i m positive. you heard the treasury department here in washington announce they re freezing $30 billion in gadhafi or libyan assets in the united states. is that all the money he has, or is there more? no, my goodness, this is just a little portion of what he has overseas in different banks. where else is he hiding the money? i think in many european countries. only he has number of children, each of them have fortune. billions and billions of dollars. billions and billions. he monopolized the tampgers which carry the oil, some of the telecommunication system and every business they put their hand is there, and. you say gadhafi himself is delusional or crazy. his son who went to the london school of economics, is he crazy ....