A cache of emails and documents sheds light on the would-be ruler’s activities at a time when he was entering public life
The organiser said it would be “the most amazing party ever done in Punta del Este”, a glamorous seaside resort in Uruguay. He offered his client a sound system, a DJ, decorators, fireworks and “naked models swimming in the pool”. The client – a fixer with close ties to the rulers ofIt appears the fixer wired the organiser $34,300 – and asked him for a whole roast lamb to be delivered every day to the party villa between 30 December 2006 and 6 January 2007.
Traumatised by years of civil war, they long for the relative stability of the Gaddafi years. It has been a long journey. “You need to come back slowly, slowly,” he told journalists last November, when announcing his campaign. “Like a striptease.” Saif’s fixers also enlisted the help of doctors. Scottish law allowed for prisoners with less than three months to live to be released on compassionate grounds. There had been several paper assessments of the prisoner, who was not having active treatment, and it was decided to have him examined in person. On 24 July 2009, Saif received an email from Karol Sikora, a London-based oncology professor. “I believe Mr al-Megrahi’s prognosis is very poor,” Sikora wrote.
A day later, documents suggest Saif drafted a letter to first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, expressing his “deepest appreciation for the understanding and willingness to take all necessary steps that were needed to facilitate the decision of Secretary MacAskill”.
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