Rothschild Connection to Megrahi Release
August 27th, 2009Via: BBC:
In recent years two British prime ministers, a Russian oligarch, the scion of a European banking dynasty, a Prince of the Realm, a leader of Big Oil and our very own “Prince of Darkness” (aka Business Secretary Peter Mandelson) have all had walk-on parts, if not more, in events that preceded the release of the Lockerbie bomber. It’s a cast of characters that would do justice to a Bond film.
At the centre of this possible web of intrigue is Saif, the shaven-headed, London School of Economics-educated son of the Libyan dictator. Turns out he is a good friend of Oleg Deripaska, the Russian aluminium baron, and Nat Rothschild, of the eponymous banking dynasty.
Saif invited both to his 37th birthday party in June in Becici in Montenegro, into which Deripaska and Rothschild have poured around $1 billion to create a sort of St Tropez in the Balkans. Saif is also pumping Libyan money into Montenegro from his country’s vast investment fund, reason enough for Rothschild last year to host a party in his honour in New York.
What’s all this got to do with the Lockerbie bomber? Well consider this. Peter Mandelson’s love of holidaying with the rich and famous in exotic places took him to Corfu this month for the second year in a row. Last August he visited Rothschild in his $60m Corfu estate and stayed on Deripaska’s luxury yacht. This August he stayed at the Rothschild villa – and met Saif Gaddafi.
Mandelson claims the meeting was only “fleeting” but officials admit they did discuss the Lockerbie case. A week later it became public that the bomber might be released on “compassionate” grounds though, of course, there may be no connection. It was then revealed that Mandelson had previously met Saif at a reception in London in May.
The Business Secretary maintains that any suggestion that a deal was being cooked up is not just wrong but “offensive”, which we should accept at face value until facts suggest otherwise.
