LIBYA: FORGIVE AND FORGET

If Saddam Hussein's Baghdad cell is equipped with a television which receives CNN, there must be moments at which he suspects his American captors of broadcasting bogus stories as part of a psy-ops campaign to discombobulate him further. The announcement by United States secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on 15 May 2006 that the US is to restore full diplomatic relations with Libya must seem, to the former Iraqi despot, clinching and crushing proof of the world's unfairness.

There was a time, not so long ago, when Libya's dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, was routinely – and not unreasonably – called all the names that Saddam was taunted with in the build-up to his overthrow by America: tyrant, terrorist, threat to all we held dear. Now, Saddam is enduring the fair trial he has been permitted prior to his hanging, while Gaddafi is not only enjoying his thirty-seventh year of unchallenged rule, but is preparing to accept the credentials of an ambassador from Washington.

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