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  1. Breathes there a Brit with soul so dead he never to himself hath said

    A council! We need to form a council!?

    … and then Mr. Toad looked up, a dangerous glint in his eye, and said

    A Council!

  2. There are some Wikileaks that speak to this, but I forget where I read them today. Gist is the Scots opposed, the Brits insisted he be released because of economic threats to the UK from Qaddafi. After the storm broke, the Crown blamed the Scots, who took it in the shorts.

  3. Tom is perfectly correct there – part of the cables released showed that the “near death” was made up in an attempt to garner public opinion whilst they caved to Qaddafi economic threats.

    Of course that one isn’t covered much and was buried in something else (by bet is Assange would have redacted it if he was reading close, which he wasn’t).

    There are also some interesting tidbits in there on Saddam having WMD’s and moving them to Syria before the invasion which is also ignored completely by most.

  4. When he was allowed to go home to Libya in August of 2009, it was said he had three months or less to live.

    It’s a medical miracle! The air and water in Libya must be very good. They should probably open up health spas or something.

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