Libya Rolls Over, US Scratches It's Stomach

After renewing diplomatic relations with the US last year and basically disarming itself four years ago, Muammar Gaddafi was finally rewarded for playing puppy dog. The US will help build a nuclear plant in Libya. Apparently all is forgiven about that incident in April of 1986, when over 100 people died, including Gaddafi's adopted daughter, when american planes unloaded on a bombing run over Tripoli. The american assault was meant to assasinate him.

A largely overlooked story about that is the fact that Israel's Mossad tricked the US into striking Libya by planting trojan transmitters that made it seem that the Libyans were sending terror orders to their embassies in Europe. A convenient explosion in a West Berlin disco that killed an american on April 5 was blamed on Libya and it was bombs away.

But this is how it works. A head of state barks a few times, wants to turn on a few light bulbs, won't open his oil reserves up to foreign exploitation and gets menaced by formidable armadas just offshore. (Ahmenidejad)
Former public enemy #1 capitulates to demands, becomes a vassal and gets rewarded with a shiny new nuclear power station. (Gaddafi) Of course Libya's 39 billion barrels of oil and estimated 53 trillion cubic feet of natural gas have nothing to do with it at all.