BP Has a Lock on Libyan Oil

So what are they doing wrong that this would be raised at this time, or is the MSM just kicking them while they are down?

Oh, right. It's not BP, is it?

"BP role in Lockerbie bomb case is queried" by New York Times | July 16, 2010

There are other interests larger than oil that control things; otherwise, we would not be invading oil-rich nations.

LONDON — Oil giant BP faced a new furor yesterday as it confirmed that it had lobbied the British government to conclude a prisoner-transfer agreement that the Libyan government wanted to secure the release of the only person convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing over Scotland, which killed 270 people.

The acknowledgment came after US lawmakers, grappling with the controversy over the company’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill, called for an investigation of BP’s actions in the case of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi.

If it is coming out of that institution it is definitely Israel's will.

After an initial demand for an investigation Wednesday by four senators from New York and New Jersey, further calls for an inquiry by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were made yesterday by Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Dianne Feinstein, both Democrats of California.

Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent, was released and allowed to return to Libya in August after doctors advised the Scottish government that he was likely to die within three months of advanced prostate cancer. But nearly a year later, he remains alive and free in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

BP’s statement yesterday repeated earlier acknowledgments that it had promoted the transfer agreement to protect a $900 million offshore oil-and-gas exploration deal off Libya’s Mediterranean coast. Jack Straw, the British justice minister at the time, admitted shortly after Megrahi was repatriated and freed that the BP deal was a consideration in the government’s review of his case.

In the end, Meghrabi’s sentence was commuted on humanitarian grounds. That freed him from serving any further prison time in Libya.

Hey, hey, hey, Lieberman gets the last word on Lockerbie!!

So it was CIA, huh?

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And just in case things really go wrong with the deal:

"Elite British forces reportedly training Libyan troops" by Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press | September 13, 2009

LONDON - Some of Britain’s most elite soldiers have been training Libyan forces in counterterrorism and surveillance for the past six months, a newspaper said yesterday.

The Daily Telegraph said a contingent of four to 14 men from the Special Air Service, or SAS, were working with Colonel Moammar Khadafy’s soldiers in Libya, a country once notorious for its support of terrorism.... Britain’s secretive SAS is among the world’s most respected commando units. It was created during World War II for attacks behind Axis lines....

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FRU

Would YOU want THEM in your country?

Britain’s thirst for Libya’s oil and gas resources was again thrust into the spotlight earlier this month when it was reported that Brown had refused to lobby Khadafy for compensation for the Britons killed and injured by Libyan-supplied plastic explosives used by the Irish Republican Army in the 1980s and ’90s.

Well, THAT'S a REAL CIRCLE JERK seeing as it was the BRITISH SETTING UP THOSE IRISH BLOKES!

In a letter written last year to a survivor of one of the IRA bombings, then-junior Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell explained that Libya was now “a vital partner . . . in guaranteeing a secure energy future for the UK.’’

The paper cited an unidentified SAS source as saying that the training was seen as part of the deal to release Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, whose return to Libya last month outraged Americans and raised questions over the nature of Britain’s relationship with Khadafy’s authoritarian regime.

See: Lieberman Gets Last Word on Lockerbie

Britain’s military refused to comment on the Telegraph’s report. The Foreign Office said Britain had “ongoing cooperation with Libya in the field of defense,’’ but refused to comment on the issue of special forces. It denied in a statement that the defense cooperation had anything to do with Megrahi’s release. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other officials have emphasized Libya’s remarkable transformation from rogue state to Western ally and the need to keep Khadafy on board since he renounced terrorism and dismantled his country’s clandestine nuclear program in 2003.

Usually the trick turns the other way. So how do they explain yesterday?

But media reports have suggested that the prisoner-exchange agreement that paved the way for Megrahi’s release was motivated in part by a desire to secure access to Libya’s vast energy reserves.

Oh, that's how -- and what this all about, bottom line.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw of Britain seemed to endorse that contention when he told the Telegraph last week that trade played “a very big part’’ in the negotiations over the prisoner deal....

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That means OIL and BP, dear readers!!!

And didn't I say Libya did something wrong?

"Aid ship’s quest ends in Egyptian port" by Associated Press | July 16, 2010

EL-ARISH, Egypt — A Libyan ship carrying aid for the impoverished Gaza Strip docked at an Egyptian port yesterday after Israel’s navy stopped it from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.

The director of the port of el-Arish, Gamal Abdel Maqsoud, said the diverted ship would unload its cargo and transfer it to the Red Crescent for delivery to Gaza by land across the Egyptian border.

A day earlier, Israeli missile ships stopped the aid vessel from reaching Hamas-ruled Gaza. Israel imposed the blockade after the Islamic militant and anti-Israel Hamas violently overran the territory in June 2007.

Related:

"Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006....

Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in early 2006....

In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections"

Yes, I get sick of the lies when they KNOW THEY ARE LIES!

Yup, ISRAELI PROPAGANDA posing as NEWS here in AmeriKa!

The standoff between Israel’s navy and the crew of the aid vessel, the Amalthea, followed a botched Israeli raid on a similar Gaza-bound ship in May in which nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed.

Yeah, it is a BOTCHED RAID, not an ACT of PIRACY!

I'm surprised they didn't say anti-Israeli activists.

Guess I will have to wait until tomorrow.

The international criticism over that raid forced Israel to ease its land blockade of the territory, but it has maintained the naval embargo, insisting it is vital to keep weapons out of Hamas’s hands.

Restrictions remain on such materials as cement and steel that Israel says could be used for military purposes.

I'm SICK of the ISRAELI POINT of VIEW, 'kay?

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Yeah, that wrong will get you every time.

Also see: No Change in Gaza