They don’t seem to go away. the doubts about whether the real mass murderers have gone free amidst the uproar of the freeing of the convicted Libyan. He may be guilty as charged.
But see if you feel as strongly about that after you read the September 24, issue of The London Review of books in which Gareth Peirce makes the case that released Libyan al-Megrahi was framed and Ahmad Jibril, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command was behind it.
It’s a sober evidence-backed, non conspiracy-theory investigation-of-the- investigation that all too many want to sweep under the rug. It in no way denies Libyan invovlement in murderous terrorism. In fact tht invovlement made it all the more easy to in the blame them for highly complicated, intelligence-related reasons we may never completely learn the truth about.
Brilliant,comprehensive, conclusive: makes you think that Khadaffi has been a Western intelligence “asset” since the get go. The other constant is the coddling of Syria: Libya, the oil state, and Syria, the political fixer, each a fulcrum from which the shifting alliances of convenience of the West in the Mideast can be balanced at the steady costs of thousands of murdered innocents.