Libya spies' secret deal to reveal terrorists

The Observer (U.K.) ^ | 12/21/03 | Peter Beaumont, Martin Bright and Kamal Ahmed

[SkyPilot]

I wish someone would put some tough questions to Mad Madeline the cleaning lady now. Perhaps this self centered, egotistical sow could make an even bigger fool of herself on TV this Sunday by talking about how GW Bush "botched" it.

[Terry Mross]

Khaddafi was between the proverbial rock and a hard spot. Maintain and meet the 4th I.D. up close and personal or turn on Al Queda and meet a suicide bomber up close and personal. Guess he figured the odds are better going against Bin Laden.

[Jodi]

i always think your name is mr. obison. is your tag line from willie wonka and the choc. factory? i like it.

[Jodi]

LOL!

[mrobison]

Re: my screen name: my first initial is "M", last name is "Robison."

Tag line is from Willie Wonka, but he got it from a poet named O'Shaughnessy.

[mrobison]

Ode

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

[aculeus]

As I (cough) said when the news broke obtaining Libya's help in fighting terrorists may be the biggest news of the past month.

[Calpernia]

· Gadaffi joined war on terror to lift crippling sanctions · Expelled envoy led talks on banned arms programmes

Libya provided detailed intelligence on hundreds of al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists as part of a deal to end its isolation as a pariah nation, The Observer can reveal.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[JustPiper]

Wonder how long before all he tricked on puit a price on his head? He has to be a marked man now, must know he has a terminal illness.

[blackie]

Libya provided detailed intelligence on hundreds of al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists as part of a deal to end its isolation as a pariah nation, The Observer can reveal ~ Bump!

[windchime]

Bump!