Is it as simple as 'follow the money'?

The Telegraph and other papers report that

'Tony Blair visited Libya last month and met Colonel Muammar Gaddafi just days after denying he was an adviser to the country, it was disclosed last night.'

People seem surprised that the 'Sainted' Tony has met with the leader of a regime that supplied arms to the IRA during the height of the troubles. They seem shocked that he would meet with the head of a regime, one of whose agents shot a British police woman in cold blood in a a London Square. They seem surprised that Tony Blair met with the leader of a regime that was seen to be behind the murderous killing by one of its agents of hundreds of people in the skies above Lockerbie and the convicted perpetrator of which was surprisingly released on 'compassionate grounds' last year.

How odd that on 5 June a spokesman for Mr Blair denied that the former prime minister was an adviser to the Libyan leader and now confirmed the visit in Tripoli on 10 June but said Mr Blair "has no role whatsoever, paid or otherwise, with the Libyan government or the Libyan Investment Authority".

Note also that questions are being raised about the role played by Sir Mark Allen, a former MI6 official who is now a special adviser to BP. BP has admitted that Sir Mark had two conversations, and wrote a letter to Jack Straw, the then Justice Secretary, about the prisoner transfer agreement. Slippery Jack Straw allegedly involved as well, any more ex-Labour involvement? Sir Mark Allen is also rumoured to have travelled to Libya to broker oil deals on behalf of BP with Colonel Gaddafi.

So rumours abound that not just the British government of Gordon Brown but also BP were involved, however indirectly, in securing the early release by the Scottish government from Scottish prison of Abdulbaset al-Megrahi. A man released because he had been given three months to live but oddly seems quite unwilling to die, unlike those he was convicted of killing on (and underneath) Pan Am Flight 103.

A Former British agent, a large UK/multinational, a greedy former UK Prime Minister, Jack Straw (the great survivor of the last Labour government) and a murderous Islamic regime... Questions, questions, questions...