Zionist Blair ties to Kadafi

NOVANEWS

In Britain, critics Monday blasted the 2007 “deal in the desert” between Kadafi and then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to try to normalize relations between their nations. The effort came in spite of such major sore points as the deadly 1988 terrorist bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people and was blamed on Libya.

The growing rapprochement between London and Tripoli facilitated an oil exploration deal by BP worth more than $800 million. The British government has provided a few million dollars in development aid, and British arms dealers have reportedly sold millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to Libya, including tear gas and bullets — a lucrative trade that has taken on sinister implications in light of Kadafi’s response to the demonstrations.

The British government has now revoked export licenses to Libya for riot-control gear, the Guardian newspaper reported. And Prime Minister David Cameron, in Cairo for the first visit by a Western leader to post-revolution Egypt, strongly condemned Kadafi’s crackdown.

“The brutal oppression by the regime is completely appalling and unacceptable,” Cameron said Monday.

London has summoned the Libyan ambassador to demand an explanation of Kadafi’s actions. British Foreign Secretary William Hague also urged restraint in a telephone call Sunday to one of Kadafi’s sons, Saif, who went on Libyan television that night to deliver a stern warning to demonstrators.

The growing ties between Britain and Libya over the last few years have been a regular source of controversy.

The London School of Economics accepted a controversial $2.4-million donation in 2009 from a charitable foundation headed by Saif Kadafi, who holds a doctorate from the university. Last year, a scuffle between pro- and anti-Tripoli protesters broke out at the university when the younger Kadafi came to give a speech.