Libya : A no lie zone

[Jan Klimkowski]

What is it again that made Gaddafi an automatic Hitler type? The US has befriended and supported much worse leaders and still does. The US also has a much higher body count than Gaddafi. There's a strong argument that preventing a continuation of US War On Terror aggression would be the better of the two choices.

The propaganda claim for the Evilness of Gaddafi is the shooting of Pc Yvonne Fletcher in London and the Lockerbie bombing.

Both these events happened well before Prime Minister Tony Blair had his sycophantic photo opportunity with Col Gaddafi in the yurt to enable British oil companies to exploit Libyan oil fields.

It is now clear that British and American intelligence rendered people who didn't get the rapprochement (eg former mujahadeen) so they could be tortured by the now "friendly power" of Libya.

Indeed, Blair continued lobbying for western business interests after leaving office:

A senior executive with the Libyan Investment Authority, the $70 billion fund used to invest the country's oil money abroad, said Mr Blair was one of three prominent western businessmen who regularly dealt with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the former leader.

Saif al-Islam and his close aides oversaw the activities of the fund, and often directed its officials on where they should make its investments, he said.

The executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, said officials were told the "ideas" they were ordered to pursue came from Mr Blair as well as one other British businessman and a former American diplomat.

"Tony Blair's visits were purely lobby visits for banking deals with JP Morgan," he said.

He said that unlike some other deals - notably some investments run by the US bank Goldman Sachs - JP Morgan's had never turned "bad".

Source.

However, when those same western business interests decided they wanted to take over Libyan resources, the propaganda machine turned Gaddafi into the Bogey Man again by remembering Yvonne Fletcher and Lockerbie.

The fact that Libya almost certainly was not responsible for Lockerbie was ignored by MSM in War on Terror propaganda mode.