Hmmmm

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
First Britain worked with Scotland to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. Ostensibly because he was terminally ill. Now Cameron has offered sanctuary for Moussa Koussa, the Libyan foreign minister who as the former head of Libya's external intelligence, was the mastermind accused of planning the Lockerbie bombing.

If we didn't know better we might assume that the British government is most interested in securing any information Koussa might have. Including, but not limited to, British Petroleum deals that were linked to the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Sunday Times: (Oct 30, 2009) Lockerbie bomber 'set free for oil'

FOLLOWING UP - GERMAN ELECTIONS
German elections on March 27 in the state of Baden-Württemberg were a big upset. The Green Party to a historic victory over Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From Der Spiegel: "The Greens doubled their share of the vote to 24.2 percent, according to preliminary results released by the state electoral commission. They are now likely to govern the state in a coalition with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), which secured 23.1 percent of the vote." The CDU got 39 but their coalition partner, the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), do not have enough seats between them to form a coalition government.
          The Greens and the Social Democrat Party will also form a coalition in Rhineland-Palatinate after the SDU lost their majority. The FDP didn't get enough votes to be represented in the state parliament.

FOLLOWING UP - AUSTRALIAN NSW ELECTION
Labor suffered a wipeout in the election in New South Wales. Labor had been in power there for 16 years. The loss was, as the Sydney Morning Herald said, part of the anti-Labor tide that has been sweeping the country."