Posted on 08/24/2009 10:11:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
It will be the biggest party Libya has ever thrown, and the whole world is invited. Whether next week’s jamboree to mark Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s 40 years in power completes his country’s journey from pariah-hood to respectability depends on one question: will the Lockerbie bomber be among the guests of honour?
“Why not?,” replied one Libyan official when asked whether Africa’s longest-serving leader would invite Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi to appear alongside him at next Monday’s celebrations.
“It would be daft,” countered a Western official, who said that an appearance by al-Megrahi would deepen the outrage engendered in the US and Britain by his rapturous welcome home last week. European contractors brought in to organise the extravaganza strongly hope that Libya’s notoriously flamboyant and unpredictable leader does not take a step that would undermine all that they are trying to achieve. But, one admitted: “No one knows what he’ll do.”
The celebrations are entitled "Celebrate Libya" and intended to mark not just the 40th anniversary of the coup that overthrew King Idris and brought Colonel Gaddafi to power, but Libya’s final break with its dark, terrorist-sponsoring, WMD-building, West-baiting past.
It has invited heads of state or government from every country and expects 60 or 70 to attend. These include most African leaders, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Russia’s Prime Minister Putin, President Sarkozy of France and the King and Queen of Spain (they will each be given solid gold pendants in the shape of Africa with Libya marked by diamonds). Following the row over al-Megrahi’s jubilant homecoming, however, Britain and America are likely to be represented only by their ambassadors.
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Time for this POS to succumb to acute lead poisoning. When did the Scots become a nation of sheep?
By treating this guy as a hero, Ghadaffi is accepting responsibility for Lockerbie. That should have very direct consequences. He should not be allowed to take credit for it and continue in power.
If the Scots and the Brits don't have the grit to take him down, we should.
Considering the quality of the leadership in the White House, though, I'll be surprised if al-Megrahi isn't invited for beer and barbecue on the White House lawn.
Sounds like a target-rich environment to me.
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