It's definitely worth watching the video attached to the Al Jazeera article. According to the Libyan Intelligence Agency files, Gaddafi had been in regular communication with former Bush official David Welch. More troubling is that the files detail a meeting less than one month ago where Welch proposes solutions for riding out the storm, running counter to NATO and White House policy.
What would be of great interest in the files would be more details surrounding the release of al-Megrahi and any deals offered. Al Jazeera:
Welch now works for Bechtel, a multinational American company with billion-dollar construction deals across the Middle East. The documents record that, on August 2, 2011, David Welch met with Gaddafi's officials at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo, just a few blocks from the US embassy.
During that meeting Welch advised Gaddafi's team on how to win the propaganda war, suggesting several "confidence-building measures", according to the documents. The documents appear to indicate that an influential US political personality was advising Gaddafi on how to beat the US and NATO.
Minutes of this meeting record his advice on how to undermine Libya's rebel movement, with the potential assistance of foreign intelligence agencies, including Israel.
The documents read: "Any information related to al-Qaeda or other terrorist extremist organisations should be found and given to the American administration but only via the intelligence agencies of either Israel, Egypt, Morroco, or Jordan… America will listen to them… It's better to receive this information as if it originated from those countries...".
