LOCKERBIE: KNOWLEDGEABLE DENIAL; USA;UK; SCOTLAND; LIBYA

China Confidential

British Oil Firms Behind Bomber's Release

Now it can be told: it's all about oil. 

British oil companies engineered the release of the Pan Am 103 bomber in order to secure lucrative contracts with the Libyan dictator. Click here for the story, which does not begin to dig deeply enough.

China Confidential Mideast sources say the energy behemoths worked tirelessly to free the mass-murdering terrorist. The oil companies pressured the UK government, which pressured Scottish authorities. Click here. 

The disgraceful deal with the devil recalls the business and financial collaboration that went on during World War II, when major American and German banks and corporations managed to conduct business with each other through Swiss banks and corporate subsidiaries in South America. The scandal raises disturbing questions in todays global economy. Sadly, it seems that when the interests of a Western nation--or Western civilization civilization-- are on the line, as in the case of WW II and in the war against radical Islam and Arab terrorism, multinational corporations are only on one side--their own. 


In a related development, Switzerland has officially apologized to the Libyan dictator for the arrest of his son and daughter-in-law on suspicion of beating their servants during a visit to Geneva. China Confidential sources in Switzerland say the charges are widely understood to be true; but the pressure on Switzerland was overwhelming.

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Tony Blair, British Petroleum And The Lockerbie Deal

This gets dirtier and dirtier:

Tony Blair has been accused of agreeing a 'blood money' deal involving the Lockerbie bomber with Colonel Gaddafi just hours before BP unveiled a £500million oil contract.

The then Prime Minister laid the foundations for the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi during a meeting with the Libyan leader in a desert tent two years ago.

The pair thrashed out a controversial prisoner transfer deal just before BP chairman Peter Sutherland announced the firm was investing $900million - about £545million - to search for oil in Libya. If the firm strikes rich, it could be worth £13billion.

Critics are suspicious that Mr Blair's deal was part of an attempt to develop closer relations with the former pariah state to protect Britain's oil interests.

Susan Cohen, whose only child Theodora, 20, was killed in the bombing, said: 'Tony Blair has behaved absolutely appallingly. Some people would describe it as blood money.

He put compassion for the oil industry ahead of any compassion for my daughter, for the families of all those people killed by a convicted mass murderer and terrorist.

It just shows that the power of oil money counts for more than justice.'

It sure does. Khadaffi paid out about $1.5 billion in compensation to the victims of the Lockerbie bombing - and then got most of it back in exchange for a deal allowing access to Libya's oil.

With the freeing of al-Megrahi, and probably the non-prosecution of whomever it was that fired that shot from inside the Libyan embassy in London that murdered policewoman Yvonne Fletcher while she was patrollingin front of it in 1984, the deal's complete.

I think blood money is a pretty appropriate term.

And if you look at how al-Megrahi was received back home in Libya as a hero and role model , I can almost guarantee you that there will be a further cost to this whole endeavor in the future.

Not that Tony Blair or his ilk are going to be the ones paying the price. That's for the little people, like us.

UPDATE: Seif al-Islam, Khadaffi's son admitted in an interview todaythatthe release of al-Megrahi was directly linked to the oil deal.