The Sun today carried the welcomed news that charges have been dropped against the thirty PSM activists including the six who were detained earlier under the Emergency Ordinance (p 03). Actually, they were given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal. This means that they can be charged (again) with the same offence in the future.
But this doesn’t change the fact that the six were at first remanded for waging war against the King, and then, subsequently, they were charged for being in possession of subversive documents.
The authorities cannot now pretend that an injustice did not occur. Where’s the apology? What about restitution?
Letters and emails found in Tripoli have been exposed by UK’s The Sunday Telegraph, to show that former British prime minister, Tony Blair had held secret talks with Muammar Gaddafi. The correspondences between Blair's office, the British ambassador in Tripoli and the Libyan ambassador in London have given rise to grave concern over possible conflicts of interest regarding Blair’s many roles as Middle East peace envoy, philanthropist and business consultant.
It was also reported that Blair was flown to Libya twice at Gaddafi's expense on one of the former dictator's private jets – visiting him in June 2008 and April 2009. And as recently as June 2010, Blair had another private meeting with Gaddafi.
Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, said: "Blair is clearly using his Downing Street contacts to further his business interests" (The Telegraph, September 17, 2011).
This is not so surprising because last year, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had made the sensational claim that Blair is an adviser to Gaddafi (Webpage http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284132/Tony-Blair-special-adviser-dictator-Gaddafis-son.html, published June 05, 2010). The Libyan dictator’s son said Blair had secured a consultancy role with a state fund that managed the country's £65 billion of oil wealth and Saif even described him as a “personal family friend”.
What’s more, it has even been brought to notice that Blair has made a fortune since leaving Downing Street through speaking engagements and consultancy deals largely set up in the Middle East and the US. His personal wealth is estimated at anywhere between £20 million and £60 million (Webpage http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8771192/Libya-Tony-Blair-and-Col-Gaddafis-secret-meetings.html, posted September 17, 2011). He is certainly not the goody two-shoes that he has made himself out to be! He is a fake and a hypocrite.
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