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| Four Labour ministers met Libyans before bomber's release | |
| 2009-08-27 | |
The disclosures will add to the pressure on Gordon Brown to explain exactly what trade or other deals have been negotiated with Libya. It is certain to lead to calls for an inquiry into the circumstances around the release. Last night the Cabinet Office released papers which showed that Lord Jones, a trade minister, visited Tripoli in May last year to talk to business representatives. In November last year Dawn Primarolo, then a health minister, held bilateral talks with the Libyan prime minister and the Secretary of the General People's Committee. Her boss, Alan Johnson also met Libyan health ministers at the World Health Assembly held in Geneva last year. In addition, Bill Rammell, the Foreign Office Minister, held bi-lateral talks with foreign ministers in the Libyan capital in February 2009. The row over the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al Megrahi has led to questions about whether the Government had done a deal with Colonel Gaddafi's regime involving lucrative trade contracts in exchange for Megrahi's release. | |
| Posted by:ed |
| #3 The Scotty Nats are trying to get permission to openly distribute the relevant documents. Remember, Brown's government has a rather ... rigorous ... use of law enforcement against anyone who leaks embarassing information when that can be traced. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-08-27 18:46 |
| #2 Lord mandleson of Foy (ex EUSSR trade commioner) had tea on a yacht with Ghadaffis son. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-08-27 17:10 |
| #1 the notion that the Scotty Nats released Megrahi as a way to help Labour trade policy, strikes me as unlikely, to put it politely. And a fortiori, when the Scotty Nats are in hot water over it, that they have failed to leak the details that would implicate Labour, if there are any. Instead we get a Tory paper reciting what appear to be routine contacts, as if that proves anything. |
| Posted by: liberal hawk 2009-08-27 10:23 |