Since the thread is going all over the place, I remind people that Idia Amin was also responsible for playing the accordion. He learnt it as a British soldier, and wasn't too good, I believe. Otherwise maybe he'd have channelled his ambitions elsewhere, and become the kind of authoritarian squeezebox player you sometimes run into at sessions.

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The evidence that Libya was responsible for Lockerbie is pretty shaky. There were other countries and organisations in the frame for it as well, but Libya was a bit more convenient than some of them. All very murky.

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Also the suggestion that Libya has made big disarmamant concessions which weren't on offer already is a bit questionable. It's suggested that the Iraq war made Gaddaffi much more conciliatory - what seems to have happened is that it made Blair (and presumably Bush) more willing to accept the concessions already on offer. Suited everyone to cosy up in public at this time.