BBC NEWS ‘s usually impeccable Nick Robinson last night produced a Cameron-puff report on Gaddafi’s end which might have been scripted by the Ministry of Information, or should I say Ministry of Truth.
The focus was on Cameron as hero of his first ever war as prime-minister in contrast to Tony Blair, as arch villain- usual footage of Tony all smiles with Gaddafi in the days when he was ‘on side.’
Robinson did have the courtesy to mention that Blair’s negotiations led to the dismantling of Libya’s nuclear and chemical weaponry (imagine where we would be now if he hadn’t) but omitted to tell us of the pay back on Northern Ireland: much of Libya’s weapons sold to the IRA remained unused by the time the organisation’s decommissioning got under way, which meant that the peacemakers could check the arms handed over against a list provided by Gaddafi.
As for Gaddafi’s end, I found it profoundly unsettling- mob justice, with the allies letting them get on with it, no doubt to keep some other skeletons, firmly in the cupboard.
How right you are, Jimmy. Skeletons will now be kept far away….
After a months of a civil war, what do you expect the Libyans to do when they come face to face with the cause of 42 years of terror? Treat his wounds, call an ambulance and prepare the judges in the Hague for a new case? A civil war is a cruel war and I wouldn’t have expected anything different. As for the Allies letting them get on with it?! The Allies are fighting from the safe haven of jet cockpits and are not on the ground, so your conspiracy theory is very flawed. Gadaffi’s end was only unsettling because we are in the era of mobile phones and we have dozens of amateur recordings and seeing a person die is upsetting, but in this case, not surprising.