Soccer Dad

With all due obsequiousness

Perhaps you recall:

The welcome was another slight for Washington, which had sought strenuously to persuade Libya not to permit a hero's welcome for Mr. Megrahi and had opposed his release.

Still protesting his innocence and offering "sincere sympathy" to the families of those who died in the bombing, Mr. Megrahi was granted his freedom under the terms of Scottish laws permitting the early release of prisoners with less than three months to live. The Scottish authorities and his lawyers say he has terminal prostate cancer.

And perhaps you recall that six months later:

Doctors in Libya supply monthly medical reports to Scottish authorities who can speak to Megrahi whenever they want. The conditions of his early release stipulate he must not leave Libya.

Megrahi, is now living in a spacious two-storey villa with his wife and their five grown-up children in a prosperous suburb of Tripoli, the Libyan capital.

The property has a spacious garden and an area where the family erects a large tent to entertain visitors for celebrations.

The property has a security gate and there is often a uniformed police officer sitting on a white chair outside.

The Megrahis, who are part of a prominent tribe, are well off and it is understood that his family was paid substantial compensation by the Libyan Government after he was jailed for life.

They are known to have urged Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, to get Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent, freed from his jail.

Remember from death's door to the lap of luxury in spite of the United States.

Now look at who's hurt (via memeorandum)

The US state department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for jihad against Switzerland.

Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the dismissive comments, said they did not reflect US policy and were not intended to offend.

So Qaddafi rewards a killer of Americans and expects no consequence. A State Department official makes a dismissive (and accurate) comment about Libyan dictator and Qaddafi is furious. Am I missing something?

Fausta's not impressed:

Might as well stick a fork in the State Department, because they're done: The US State Department has apologized for slighting terrorist Gaddafi, he of the traveling tent, the Lockerbie bomb, the sartorial flourishes, and the many spellings...

Gateway Pundit points out that this isn't the first Libyan suck up.

In September it was reported that the Obama Administration planned to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family.

I did miss something. It's worse than I thought.