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DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE: Ambassador Tim Fischer celebrates Libyan dictatorship, meets Lockerbie bomber
The Rudd Government’s Ambassador to the Vatican and former National Party leader Tim Fischer has been accused by Canberra insiders of meeting the infamous Lockerbie bomber during a recent trip to Libya.
Diplomatic corridors of power are abuzz with talk that Fischer met with the convicted mass murderer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, who was curiously released by the UK government on health grounds but has since been air-punching his way around Tripoli at shin-digs held to celebrate his terror attack on a civilian flight over Scotland that killed 270 people. Megrahi was a Libyan intelligence officer who was convicted of 270 counts of murder due to his direct personal involvement in assembling the suitcase bomb that exploded on-board.
The Ambassador, a former Deputy Prime Minister and well-known friend of Arab dictators was in Libya earlier this month to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of a bloody military coup that put Megrahi’s boss Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in charge of the oil-rich nation.
The celebrations in Tripoli, the nation’s capital, where the dictator organised three days of military parades and festivities to “rival an Olympics opening ceremony.” Reports of the orgy of coup celebration describe lavish events “featuring thousands of dancers, singers, horses, tanks, acrobats and the Libyan military.”
Australian-Libyan trade is negligible, according to Australian government sources. The Howard government – of which Fischer was originally part - opened an Australian consulate in Libya in 2004, headed by a trade commissioner.
Fischer has previously been implicated in peddling unsubstantiated allegations against Israel, including bizarre and spectacular claims that Israel deliberately attacked a US Navy ship. Few outside fanatically anti-Israel and neo-Nazi circles believe the incident was anything other than a tragic “friendly fire” error. Decades after the incident, declassified documents from the US and Israel confirmed that. Tim Fischer remains unconvinced.
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Appalling…
Why do we even have an ambassador to the Vatican… jobs for the boys.
Guys that wear silly hats always stick together. It’s like some secret society.
No surprises that an ALP Government ambassador would be cosying up to Libya.
Shame on Stephen Smith. Shame on Kevin Rudd.
Good theory, except he’s the ex federal leader of the National Party…
Disgraceful. That terrorist should have died in his jail cell bed – a far more peaceful death than the people he killed by sending them falling into an inferno from 30,000 feet.
Fischer is a class A Tool!
Death to Libya!
Hopefully the terrorist didn’t ask him to fly something back on the flight to Rome.
yes like that terrorist did to his white “girlfriend”….what a bastard…
Gaddafi looks crap these days…all the circuses are taking their toll…wonder what he’s done to address the poverty in his country…
Is Gaddafi available as Labor State Secretary? His tactics might be civilised than Newman…
Why is Tim Fisher holding up a sex toy?
When the French evening news showed pictures from Gaddafi’s monstrous festival they warned: “What you see is not from North Korea, but from Libya.” Dictators are very alike.
Australia’s ambassador to the Holy See must be bored in Rome, or why else did he fly to Tripoli?