Photo: Saif al-Islam spent a lot of time in Britain, and is pictured here at his suite at Claridges in LondonHow Much Damage Could Saif Still Do To Britain: Why New Labour May Not Relish Gaddafi's Son Telling All In A War Trial -- Daily Mail
A few days after the fall of Tripoli to anti-Gaddafi forces, I visited the newly reopened Libyan foreign ministry and took tea with the head of its ‘British desk’.
Like a surprising number of senior civil servants under the old regime, he had survived the transition in place.
Our talk turned to the remarkable period during Britain’s New Labour government when Gaddafi’s Libya changed almost overnight from being a pariah state, whose operatives had killed a London policewoman and sponsored IRA terrorism, to our new best friend.
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My Comment: Regular readers of this blog know that I have always been a fierce critic of the former British Labour Party's policies that resulted in the release of the Lockerbie bomber, as well as its efforts to develop close ties with the Gaddafi regime. Now that everything has fallen apart, I would love to have Saif Gaddafi in some war crimes courtroom spilling the beans .... but my guess is that he will never see the inside of a courtroom .... that he will either be permitted to escape and live in exile, or he will be killed while doing it.
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