Libya's Moammar Gadhaffi well understands European spinelessness. Threatening England and Scotland with a cutoff of Libya's oil unless they released one of the plotters of the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing, Libyan Abdel al Megrahi, the Brits and Scots agreed. And thus, under the thin gauze of a "mercy release" the allegedly cancer stricken, dying man who was responsible for the deaths of 270 innocents, returned to Libya where he now lives in luxury as recounted here Monday. Successful after freeing a mass slaughterer, Gadhaffi presses on realizing he and his henchmen can now commit any crime in Europe with impunity; if punished Libya will prohibit Europeans from entering their country and, most importantly, from visiting the Libyan oilfields in which Europeans have so heavily invested. Bradley Klapper of the AP explains t he latest example of this brazen Libyan strategy. Several years ago Gadhafi's son and daughter in law were charged for beating their servants in a Swiss hotel....(Read Full Post)