Randa Fahmy Hudome, Libya's $1.4M Lobbyist

[Born_A_Truman]

Remember Randa? She's now working for Libya. (Scroll down)

http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6314340/site/newsweek/

Libya: The Strongman Is Still Making Trouble
Up to his old tricks?: The CIA believes Libya's Kaddafi may have been involved in a bizarre plot against Saudi Arabia

Nov. 1 issue - President George W. Bush counts Libya's decision to give up its nuclear-weapons program—a move that helped thaw relations with the longtime pariah regime of Col. Muammar Kaddafi—as one of his foreign-policy successes. To reward the Libyan strongman, Bush last month lifted most U.S. sanctions against Libya, prompting a rush of U.S. energy executives to Tripoli in search of drilling-rights concessions and other deals. (Among the beneficiaries: Halliburton, whose chief financial officer recently told investors that the Libyan market presented "a great opportunity for us.") Another sign of the thaw: the Libyans have just hired their own D.C. lobbyist, signing a $1.4 million contract with Randa Fahmy Hudome, until last year a top Bush-administration energy official.

But U.S. counterterrorism officials are deeply uneasy. Libya is still on the State Department list of state "sponsors" of terrorism, and sources tell NEWSWEEK the country is likely to remain there for some time. One reason: mounting evidence that, even while they were bargaining with the United States over the nuclear issue, Kaddafi and his top aides were financing a bizarre plot to assassinate Saudi ruler Crown Prince Abdullah by attacking his motorcade with grenade launchers.

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Libyan officials have denied the plot, but so far offered no explanation for the alleged payments. Libya lobbyist Hudome told NEWSWEEK the government won't comment until "the investigation is complete."