Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Bagpipes Over Tripoli

The Lockerbie bomber story just keeps getting weirder and weirder. The Daily Mail reports Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has imported a Scottish bagpipe band (er, from New Zealand) to play at celebrations of his 40th anniversary in Tripoli.

If that were nor surreal enough, now Scottish lawmakers have voted against letting Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi go free. A Tory Tory justice spokesman said:
‘Not only has this episode proved that the SNP are inexperienced and unable to cope on the international stage but it has also proved that they are small minded and petty into the bargain.‘I appreciate it was difficult decision to make, I just wish they had made that decision in a less cack-handed manner.’

Update: More from the Weekly Standard: Fair Is Foul In Scotland.