TELEGRAPH – BLOGS – CON COUGHLIN: What on earth was Sir Vincent Fean, Britain’s ambassador to Libya, thinking of when he warned that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi could “cut us off at the knees” if we refused to hand over Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person to be convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people?
Has Libya suddenly become one of the world’s leading superpowers? Does a half-baked revolutionary zealot like Gaddafi really have the ability to damage Britain? Admittedly Gaddafi caused us a great deal of discomfort during the 1980s when he thoughtfully provided the IRA with the Semtex they needed to carry out their campaign of terror against the British mainland.
But that hardly brought the country to its knees, and I very much doubt that any other hare-brained schemes the “mad dog” of Libya – as former American president Ronald Reagan once described him – might come up with would cause us serious harm. Read on and comment >>> Con Coughlin | Wednesday, December 08, 2010
