Our foreign policy, if it can be called that, of bringing Libya/Gadaffi gradually in from the cold has back-fired. It might have been the right thing to do all the time the Colonel was making the right noises and becoming less extreme.
More worryingly is the weaving of this leader into the finances of Europe - they run a soverign wealth fund - based on oil proceeds that perhaphs could have been better used directly in Libya itself. Also the son Saif seems to have tried to make himself look more respectable in society and academic circles.
Still it would not be the first time that our leaders have seen the flash of cash, the promise of contracts and kind of forgotten the ethics and done deals they maybe should not have done. Blair calling the Colonel during the current crisis just shows the level of contacts he must have had.
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