Mr Muddle and the Libyan Oil
London september 4, 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his dealing with the shambles of operation Megrahi seemed to be more of a Mr Muddle ( as in Mr men books) than a statesman. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was found guilty, by a Scottish court in 2000, for plotting the explosion that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in1988 killing over 200, was released by Scottish justice minister Kenny McCascail ‘ on compassionate’ grounds with 19 years remaining of his sentence; after three doctors ( paid by the Libyans) decided he had a terminal prostate cancer.
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