Aside from official – and provocative – proclamations from Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the news from Libya is still arriving piecemeal. The latest reports are that the protestors have prevailed in Zawia, in the west of the country, to add to their “liberation” of Benghazi last night. And there is some speculation that Gaddafi Senior has fled the country, which would certainly reinforce the sense that his power is being whittled down, potentially to naught.
As for Britain, the questions about our prior relationship with Libya still hover awkwardly over proceedings, and over the heads of the last government in particular. There was the al-Megrahi deal, of course, as well as all those meetings in Gaddafi’s tent. But after Saif Gaddafi’s statement last night, I naturally thought of Charles Moore’s scoop, in the pages of The Spectator, about Peter Mandelson dining with the Libyan dictator’s son chez Lord Rothschild in 2009.
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