by Craig Murray (this is copied from Craig's blog as comments aren't working on his at the moment)
A very senior diplomatic source told me yesterday that Berlusconi is frantic lest Gadaffi falls and the channels are revealed by which Berlusconi gets a cut on the huge amounts of Libyan oil and gas lifted to Italy. Just at the moment that would be too much even for Berlusconi to survive.
This morning I see the Italian foreign minister is warning 300.000 Libyan refugees will fly to Europe if Gadaffi falls - as though there will be none if he stays. I have checked with other diplomatic sources, and they confirm that Italy is using the refugee warning to argue that Europe should back Gadaffi, and not impose sanctions. That point is not coming over in the mainstream media.
This blog will be back up completely revamped next week. But I thought this snippet was important. If someone wants to repost it somewhere comments are possible...
3 comments:
Interesting stuff Craig - Reuters are reporting Berlusconi said he wouldn't comment on what's going on in Libya as he "didn't want to disturb anyone". Your post explains why.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/20/us-italy-libya-berlusconi-idUSTRE71J1LH20110220
The EU seems very keen to deals with devils lately. There's a trade treaty with our old friend Karimov:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54511
very interesting, a refugees for oil deal :)by a mafiosi who is holding on to his knickers by a thread. Hopefully his sexual predelictions will soon see him in court and ...gone.
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