Don't these people ever learn?
The Colonel Gets His Reward
By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent
The visit by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Libya is the culmination of a remarkable episode in the history of diplomacy and of relations between the West and the Middle East.
From being one of the West's bogeymen, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has turned into, if not exactly a new friend, then someone the West is doing business with.
The man whose agents blew up the Pan Am plane over Lockerbie, ran guns to the IRA and one of whose diplomats shot a London policewoman is now back on the diplomatic circuit.
It happened because Libya settled the Lockerbie claims, offered co-operation over the death of Police Officer Yvonne Fletcher (though how far that investigation actually gets will be interesting to watch) and, above all, agreed to give up its programme of developing weapons of mass destruction.
In return, Colonel Gaddafi
The Colonel Gets His Reward
By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent
The visit by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Libya is the culmination of a remarkable episode in the history of diplomacy and of relations between the West and the Middle East.
From being one of the West's bogeymen, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has turned into, if not exactly a new friend, then someone the West is doing business with.
The man whose agents blew up the Pan Am plane over Lockerbie, ran guns to the IRA and one of whose diplomats shot a London policewoman is now back on the diplomatic circuit.
It happened because Libya settled the Lockerbie claims, offered co-operation over the death of Police Officer Yvonne Fletcher (though how far that investigation actually gets will be interesting to watch) and, above all, agreed to give up its programme of developing weapons of mass destruction.
In return, Colonel Gaddafi
