Bombs, Please.

Fantastic times bring out fantastic stories but experience teaches there are plenty of lies among them.

We're now in Gaddafi time with the Italians reporting that the apparently mentally unhinged Muammar is responsible for the deaths of upwards of a thousand demonstrators in recent days.  A thousand, that's a lot.   A four figure number is much more likely to trigger international intervention than a few hundred bodies.  Think Rwanda, think the Congo.   Oops, no forget it.  But those millions were blacks, Libyans are Arabs and Arabs have oil so that moves them up a notch in Western eyes, no?

Anyway, word is out that Gaddafi personally ordered the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.  That would be the Pan-Am 747 that was blown out of the sky over a Scottish village en route to the U.S.  270-passengers and crew perished.  The finger is being pointed by Gaddafi's ex-justice minister, emphasis on "ex".  He claims that was why Gaddafi kept trying to Abdel al Megrahi from a Scottish prison.

The former justice min, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, claims to have proof of Gaddafi's involvement.   Chances are somebody is going to want to see that pretty soon.

I expect Gadaffi's days are numbered and you can count them on one hand.  Al Jazeera reports that what remains of his forces are still falling back as more Libyan cities are taken over by the anti-Gadaffi forces.  He appears to be increasingly reliant on foreign mercenaries.  But, unlike Mubarak and ben Ali, Gadaffi may be two deranged to be able to weigh the odds against him.   That's never a good thing when you're surrounded by dangerous people whose own futures are hanging in the same balance.