Libya comes clean

At least that's the report:

Libya's leader Colonel Gaddafi has said his country sought to develop weapons of mass destruction capabilities but will dismantle this programme completely, Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced. …

Colonel Gaddafi had told him the process of dismantling the programme would be “transparent and verifiable,” the prime minister said in a statement from Durham Cathedral.

The range of all Libya's missiles would be restricted to “no more then 300km,” he added. …

Mr Blair said Britain had been engaged in talks with Libya for nine months.

“Libya came to us in March following successful negotiations on Lockerbie to see if it could resolve its weapons of mass destruction issue in a similarly cooperative manner,” he said.

The decision entitled Libya to rejoin the international community, Mr Blair said.

President Bush confirmed the announcement from the White House and said Colonel Gaddafi had agreed “immediately and unconditionally” that international weapons inspectors could enter Libya.

Maybe, just maybe, something else that was happening nine months ago had an impact?

More:

Libya’s most significant acknowledgment was that it had a program intended to enrich uranium for use in nuclear weapons, a senior Bush administration official said.

Libya’s nuclear effort was more advanced than previously thought, the official said. U.S. and British experts inspected components of a centrifuge program to enrich the uranium, though the system was not operational, the official said, briefing reporters at the White House on condition of anonymity.