Posted on 08/22/2009 2:36:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
They are expecting a magnificent party in Tripoli on Tuesday week when Libya marks the 40th year in power of Muammar Gadaffi and pays tribute to the deft diplomatic footwork of Saif al-Islam, his son.
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In the end, he was freed by Scotland on “compassionate” grounds and escorted home to Tripoli by Saif, who thrust Megrahi’s hand into the air as they came down the steps of Gadaffi’s airliner to a hero’s welcome that has outraged the families of Lockerbie’s victims.
Yesterday the protests were undimmed, but the official responses were evasive — unsurprisingly, because behind Megrahi’s release lie weeks of intrigue between Westminster, Tripoli, Edinburgh and Washington.
Apart from the unfortunate Lockerbie families, everyone seems to have got what they wanted. Gadaffi and his son have their man. Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary, who signed the release order, has burnished his humanitarian credentials. Gordon Brown has preserved Britain’s politically and economically valuable new relationship with Libya while avoiding any blame for the release. And American politicians have been able to bluster in protest while exercising none of their considerable clout to stop it happening.
The whole exercise reeks of realpolitik and moral evasion.
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“Look at what he’s done to Switzerland,” said Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya. “He [Gadaffi] can make life very unpleasant for us all.”
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Pres. Reagan would know how to deliver those two a “proper Fireworks display” to the party.
If the Obama government did not wink Megrahi would not be released.
The Libyans should have been warned that if there were any ‘greeters’ at the airport, or any celebration at all, there would be consequences. Like a cruise missile strike!
It certainly would have been a shame if the airplane flying him to Libya had an accident along the route. Like accidentally running into a air-to-air missile.
Jack
Were I the President that plane would be a ball of wreckage on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. And I would have ordered the pilot NOT to use his missiles but to cut the plane to pieces with his guns and take his or her time about it.
I hope SOMEONE in the alternative news community is digging out the story, 'cause its laughable to expect the clowns in the MSM to care.
George Bush and Tony Blair told the world Terrorism would not be tolerated.
It took mere months for Gordon Brown and Barack Obama to kiss enough muslim butt to destroy all they worked for and make every British and American death completely wasted.
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