Brown's bad luck

Sometimes you have a bad day; you wish you hadn’t woken up at all that morning. Imagine that for a week. A month. Well, welcome to Gordon Brown’s hell.

Everything started when Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan intelligence officer convicted for the Lockerbie bombing, was released two weeks ago. It was not actually Brown’s decision. It was in fact a decision cooked and made in Scotland, Brown’s native country. But as Premier of the UK, he took the blame for it.

Megrahi was early released from his imprisonment sentence under compassionate grounds, after being diagnosed in the terminal phase of a cancer. Visible weak, the Libyan agent took a plane home on the 21st of August, just on time for the beginning of the Ramadan.

Back at home he was welcomed as a national hero. Libyan President’s son, Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, was even present at the airport to together with thousands of Libyans who were cheering him.

Immediately, the UK was widely criticized from the inside, the Lockerbie bombing relatives’ victims, and outside, the US. Behind the ghost of an oil deal between the Africans and the Europeans was flying the scene. The American Government stated that if that was what happened, there should be “shame on Britain” and Gordon Brown.

In the past two weeks, speculations surrounding the oil deal implicit in Lockerbie’s bomber’s release grew exponentially. A report from 2007 (when the release was first discussed) stated “British interests” were in between. Those interests have a name: British Petroleum and the rights to exploit several natural gas and oil fields in Libya.

Brown was firmly denying those involvements, however. Until this week, when his Justice Minister Jack Straw had to admit that oil may had have a big role in Megrahi’s release.

But Brown’s nightmare with Libya wasn’t still over.

On Monday, British Premier kinda backed IRA victims’ allegations to look for compensation from the Libyan Government for the arms deals between the African country and the Irish terrorists that contributed to several attacks. However, just a day after that, Brown managed to make a U turn by saying that IRA’s link to Libya wasn’t that strong. And subsequently, managed to get some angry Britons again against him.

Man, this guy really has had a bad week.





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