WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States pressed Libya to take tough steps against terrorism financing in the highest-level U.S. trip to the North African country since sanctions were lifted, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Stuart Levey, the U.S. Treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in written testimony for a Senate banking committee hearing that he had traveled last month to oil-rich Libya, a pariah since the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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