CURIOUS - AND DISGRACEFUL - AT 10:07 A.M. ET:  The case of Britain's relationship with Libya gets more and more curious.  Now there is this latest outrage, from Britain's Telegraph.  The SAS is the Special Air Service, a unit of elite commandos:

The SAS has been ordered by the Government to train Libyan special forces despite the country having armed the Irish Republican Army, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

For the past six months Britain’s elite troops have been schooling soldiers working for Col Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, which for years provided Republican terrorists with the Semtex explosive, machine-guns and anti-aircraft missiles used against British troops during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Sources within the SAS have expressed distaste at the agreement, which they believe could be connected to the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Britain’s relationship with Libya has been under the spotlight since Abdelbaset al Megrahi was freed from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds last month after being diagnosed as suffering from terminal prostate cancer and given three months to live.

COMMENT:  This is a sordid affair.  Although the Obama administration has been cold to Britain since The One took office, we have a right to be outraged at the apparent favors being done for Libya by the Gordon Brown government.

Gordon Brown has faced claims that his Government helped engineer Megrahi’s release to promote Britain’s commercial interests, particularly energy, in Libya.

We wonder if Britain authorities would have felt free to do some of these things if George Bush had been in the White House.  We also wonder whether the Obama White House has been aware of Britain's interactions with Libya, and just doesn't care.  Hey, it's "outreach," right?

September 12, 2009