Posted by sigismund on September 9, 2011, at 16:51:15
I see that Rupert's daughter with Wendy was baptised in the River Jordan and that Tony Blair was one of the godfathers. All that spiritual power pressed into such service. It must have been very satisfying.
I also read this morning....
AFTER almost 50 years in journalism, nothing much shocks me any more. But occasionally revulsion rises. With the fall of Tripoli to the Libyan rebels, we see, again, the infinite hypocrisy of the West in its dealings with Muammar Gaddafi.
Documents found in the office of Gaddafi's now-defected spymaster, Moussa Koussa, reveal that the former British prime minister Tony Blair went to some trouble to help Gaddafi's eldest son and heir, Saif al-Islam, with a PhD thesis at the London School of Economics in 2007.
In a signed, personal letter addressed to "Engineer Saif", smarmy Tony offered suggestions "that might help you with your studies", and finished with ''I wish you well with your PhD and send my warm good wishes''. The thesis, much of it believed to be plagiarised, was entitled, laughably, "The Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions''. The International Criminal Court now wants to try the homicidal Saif for crimes against humanity.
Blair's moral squalor is no surprise if you recall that TV news footage of him embracing Gaddafi in 2007. There he was, mouth agape in a toothy rictus, schmoozing the psychopath who had helped arm the IRA and sponsored the death of 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. Gazing into each other's eyes, they looked like a pair of raddled old queens in the crowd at a Mardi Gras parade.
More disgusting even than Blair's antics, though, is the news that the British secret service, MI6, and the CIA had been playing footsie with Gaddafi's intelligence thugs for years. In one ghastly episode, a prominent anti-Gaddafi rebel, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, was kidnapped by MI6 in Bangkok then "rendered" by the Americans for six years of torture in a Libyan jail. The British SAS also trained the notorious Khamis Brigade, Gaddafi's praetorian guard.
All part of "the war on terror'', of course. An anonymous British official said it was "ministerially authorised government policy".
Uh-huh. The Gestapo used the same argument.And how many million did the LSE get for giving Saif that PhD? Is that the business model?
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