Cameron calls for enquiry on MI5/Gaddafi collaboration

It is not exactly news that the CIA was collaborating with Gaddafi. Anyone paying attention knew that the CIA was engaged in a torture program and aiding and abetting tyrants.

What is news is that Cameron has called for an independent inquiry. Since he is the British Prime Minister he is going to get one.

Don't write off Cameron's sincerity on this issue. Gaddafi had a hand in the attempts to assassinate the previous two Conservative PMs, supplying the explosives and material used. Some of the survivors of the attacks are still active in Tory politics.

Gaddafi began his support for terrorism after Britain and France refused his demands to deport opponents back to Libya to be murdered by his regime. Now we find that Bush and Blair were doing precisely that. In other words, they persuaded Gaddafi to 'renounce' terrorism by accepting his demands.

While the normal impulse of the political establishment is to cover up and suppress, this might be the exception. At this point there is no faction in British politics that has an interest in protecting Blair's legacy.

This could get interesting.