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From the page: The murky business of pleasing Col Gaddafi
By George Galloway on Aug 24, 09 06:29 AM in

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi was innocent anyway. I said so from the start.

I have never met Colonel Gaddafi, nor his sons. I have nothing to do with his regime, which I do not support. But Libya was framed for the horrific crime at Lockerbie, and Megrahi was merely a fall guy.

I've always been close to the Palestinian cause, so I know what I'm talking about when I say the Pan Am airliner was downed by a Palestinian splinter-group, the PFLP - General Command, led by Ahmed Jibril, an ex-air force officer based in Damascus, Syria.

The crime was committed in retaliation for the American shooting down of a civilian Iranian Airbus in the Persian Gulf, which cost the lives of hundreds of men, women and children and for which the terrorists - in the US navy - were given medals by President Ronald Reagan.

I work for Press TV, a station owned by Iran.Yet I say, as I have always said, that logic dictates the view that the funding for the crime at Lockerbie came from Iranian sources, probably the Revolutionary Guard.

All this has long been known by the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic.

The "trial" at Camp Zeist, without a jury and before three Scottish judges, was a farce. It was a political show trial in which one defendant was found not guilty, though he faced exactly the same "evidence" as Megrahi.

Like Iraq later, Libya was an international outcast state at the time. Gaddafi, before Saddam, but after Nasser, was the "Mad Dog" of his day, the "new Hitler".

Following a previous framing involving a bomb aimed at US military personnel in a Berlin club, Libya had been bombarded by the US on the orders of President Reagan. Gaddafi's house was hit by missiles that killed, among others, his daughter.

Now all the tables have turned. Gaddafi is courted by the West and must be pleased.

Why?Well as Mrs Merton said to Debbie McGee: "Tell me, what first attracted you to multi-millionaire magician Paul Daniels?" And so, finally, all the ducks were in the right row. The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Board had, unprecedentedly, allowed Megrahi to launch a new appeal, in which not only his innocence would have been clear but the guilt of those who framed him. This was a day in court to be avoided.

Megrahi's prostate cancer was so advanced a "compassionate" case for his release could plausibly be advanced.

Brown and Mandelson had met Gaddafi and his son, BP and others were increasingly profitably buzzing around the honey pot.

The SNP had a chance to appear on the international stage as the "government" (sic) of Scotland and show what independence - not least from the US - could look like.

The much lampooned Kenny MacAskill was brought out looking like the Manchurian Candidate. Blinking into the limelight, he creaked open Megrahi's unjustly closed cell door.

The rest, as they say, is the future. Glasgow Springburn will be an early test of the public's appreciation or otherwise. Let the games begin.

gg

Beautiful.

From the page: "I am en route for Bangladesh, my third visit to one of the poorest countries in the world.

Extreme instability in the world's climate threatens the very existence of Bangladesh, persistently lashed by cyclone and flood, inundated, saturated, drowned.

All the more reason, then, to worry about the Tipaimukh Dam to be constructed by neighbouring India just across the border, and on an earthquake fault line.

It will be a weapon of mass destruction pointing at millions of Bangladeshis from the district of Sylhet. You may not know it, but you already know many Sylhetis.

Virtually all "Indian restaurants" in Britain are in fact Bangladeshi, and owners and staff are almost all Sylhetis. If there is an earthquake and the dam breaks, Sylhet will be no more.

Those of its people who can escape will be in headlong flight. Here.

When Britain arrived in what was then the all-Indian state of Bengal the princely entrepot, whose centre was Calcutta, was the richest place in the world.

And when we left, under fire, just a few years before I was born, it was the poorest place in the world. You don't have to be Einstein to work out what happened in between.

When I was at school, it used still to be said that Britain had had an Empire so vast that upon it the sun never set. To which my Irish grandfather would reply: "That's because God would never trust the British in the dark." Across from my school in Dundee was the pungent red-brick edifice of the Dundee linoleum works. Younger readers may not know that "lino" was once the acme of cool as a floor covering.

It was highly polished with a backing of jute, from the city's mills - which were almost without number then. The raw jute came from what was then Pakistan, and is now Bangladesh.

All day long in my classroom we would see the little trains deliver the jute and take away the lino.

Little did I know that half a century on, as a London MP, I would represent tens of thousands of Bangladeshis in Parliament, that the linoleum works, the trains and all the mills in my home town would be long gone - and that the only connection between Dundee and Bangladesh would be "Indian" curry."

racism, fascism, discrimination - they all must stop.

Interesting enough page but the videos don't all work too well.