Tony Blair's secret Gadaffi meetings

From the BBC:

18 September 2011 Last updated at 09:12 GMT

Tony Blair twice met Gaddafi for talks as peace envoy

What a joke … warmonger Blair as “peace envoy”. Very recently, ex-Gadaffi crony Tony Blair has called for even more war after the bloody Libyan war, in Iran and Syria.

Tony Blair visited Libya for talks with Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2008 and 2009, his spokesman has confirmed.

These two, so far secret, meetings, come on top of other Blair-Gadaffi meetings, already known.

Papers found in Tripoli show the ex-PM used the ousted leader’s private jet to attend, the Sunday Telegraph reports.

Mr Blair apparently did not mention the visits on websites publicising his activities as Middle East peace envoy.

Talks focused on African politics. The Lockerbie bomber‘s status was raised but Mr Blair stressed it was a case for Scotland’s leaders, his spokesman said.

At the time, Libya was threatening to sever commercial links with Britain if Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was not released from the Scottish prison where he was held for killing 270 people in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight.

He was eventually freed from his life sentence on health grounds in August 2009 – four months after Mr Blair visited Libya – after the Scottish Executive was advised Megrahi had just three months to live.

Megrahi remains alive but is said to be seriously ill with prostate cancer.

‘Delighted and grateful’

The Sunday Telegraph said the documents showed Mr Blair negotiated to fly to Tripoli from Sierra Leone in west Africa in a jet provided by Col Gaddafi.

It said one June 2008 letter, sent on notepaper headed Office of the Quartet Representative – Mr Blair‘s title as peace envoy – was sent to the Libyan ambassador to the UK.

“Mr Blair is delighted that The Leader is likely to be able to see him during the afternoon of 10 June and he is most grateful that the Libyan authorities have kindly offered an aircraft to take him from Freetown to Tripoli and back to London,” it stated.

Details of the 2009 meeting are contained in an exchange of emails between Mr Blair‘s events organiser and the former British ambassador to Libya, in which accommodation and transport are discussed, the newspaper said.

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