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2011-08-23 Africa North

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Posted by 2011-08-23 07:43|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 You release me, this 3 oz, gold sprocket is yours for the taking.... hows about it?

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-23 08:20|| 2011-08-23 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 "rescue mission to pluck 300 foreign nationals from the Libyan capital has been delayed".Rebels?freedom fighters?revolutionaries?and foreign nationals?. I getting confused. Did I forget anybody? Oh! Muslim brotherhood?.

Posted by Dale 2011-08-23 09:01|| 2011-08-23 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 In other news:

Due to his recent pancreatic cancer prognosis, the Scottish Parliament has overwhelming approved the granting of political refugee status to former Libyan strongman Momar Kadhafi.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-23 09:08|| 2011-08-23 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the Scots are rightfully terrified that if he is picked up by the Americans, they are going to find out about sweet oil deals, not just to Scotland itself, but to individual Scots politicians as well.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-23 09:13|| 2011-08-23 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Mine was an evil SNARK moose. Not an actual headline. Not yet anyway.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-23 09:15|| 2011-08-23 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 not just to Scotland itself, but to individual Scots politicians as well.

BP.
The British government decided it was in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.

Gordon Browns government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards.

The letters were sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who has been widely criticised for taking the formal decision to permit Megrahis release.

The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-08-23 09:34|| 2011-08-23 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 And these are the people who were running the show. Forgive me, meet the the new Boss, same a the old Boss. And that's why the general population of the UK has been disarmed. This thieving and lying can get taken personally when ordinary folk feel excluded from access to such deals.
Myself, he would still be sitting, with the Libyans as we knew them coughing up his bed and board for every 50 yr life sentence he should have recieved. Would have been worth an extra penny/litre every time I fill up just thinking that. So, now I fill up, when I can, and hold my nose.

Posted by Rhodesiafever 2011-08-23 10:08|| 2011-08-23 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, and the time to do away with Daffy was at the time of the Lockerbie bombing. They should have gone in then and done it right instead of just the limited bombing that they let Reagan do. Now it just seems like chickenshit. We might get rid of Daffy but we have no idea what's going to happen after he's gone. Just amazingly stupid.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-08-23 11:30|| 2011-08-23 11:30|| Front Page Top

#9 We might get rid of Daffy but we have no idea what's going to happen after he's gone. Anyone who has read a little history & done a bit of thinking has a pretty good idea of what will happen after Qadaffy exits - which makes the intervention even stupider.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-23 14:41|| 2011-08-23 14:41|| Front Page Top

#10 I dunno, Anguper. Do you mean the nation building or the chaos...or both?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-08-23 16:25|| 2011-08-23 16:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Did Qadhaffi and sons maintain a set of doubles the way Saddam et al did?

Posted by James 2011-08-23 16:38|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2011-08-23 16:38|| Front Page Top

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