<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aeeac42f-35b3-443a-a8bc-d38a0877b15a/AFD991CB-399C-40A6-AF8C-EF50553376DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks" href="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks" style="font-size: 11px;">newmatilda.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks"><H1>Oil Talks, And The Dying Scapegoat Walks</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks"><P class="abstract">The UK and the US falsely blamed a Libyan for the Lockerbie bombing in 1988. But now that it wants Libyan oil, Britain is letting him die at home, writes Alex Mitchell in London</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks">Megrahi's release from his life sentence after serving just eight years forms part of a wider political and business agreement between London and Tripoli. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks"><P> Blair and the Arab leader who had been demonised as "the world's No.1 terrorist" and "the Hitler of North Africa" established a diplomatic framework for Megrahi's release and much more. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks"><P> In return for his countryman's freedom, Gaddafi pledged to favour British companies seeking development contracts in Libya. As an act of good faith, he gave permission for British Petroleum to undertake a $600 million expansion in the Libyan oilfields. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks">It has saved Britain's criminal justice system of yet another massive embarrassment if the appeal judges found that Megrahi had been wrongfully convicted.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks">Megrahi didn't plant the bomb</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/oil-talks-and-dying-scapegoat-walks">who did? </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AFD991CB-399C-40A6-AF8C-EF50553376DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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