building clashing with Libyan demonstrators" Every British government has "clashed with demonstrators," often lethally. "When Scotland released Abdelbaset el Megrahi, Seif was there to give him a royal greeting" Don't know how where you see the "royal" in that greeting but the whole of Libya greeted Megrahi as the innocent, framed victim that he was, framed for a bombing that we all knew, back in 1989, was ordered by Iran in retaliation for the downing of an Iranian Airbus by a US warship (whose skipper was awarded a medal for it) and executed by Syria. The current Islamist leaders of Libya are equally supportive of Megrahi: "We will not give any Libyan citizen to the West," Mohammed al-Alagi, the NTC justice minister, told reporters in Tripoli. "When Libyans took to the street to demand their rights, he threatened their extermination. " You mean when fundamentalist jihadis, whom Saif had personally released from jail when the promised to behave, suicide-bombed th Derna barracks, cut the throats of everyone inside, and seized their arms. The media is partly to blame for the current confusion of "protester" with terrorist. We have grown accustomed to seeing captions like "Libyan protester firing an RPG." If Saif was so evil in threatening the jihadist "protesters" of Derna and Benghazi, what was the British government then, when it killed and imprisoned so many Irish "protesters" to whom Gaddafi had delivered all that semtex? 1. He was the one who trusted us so much that he persuaded his