Why did those SAS (or SBS?) "diplomats" sneak into Libya by the back door? Because the Libyans know that the West's interest in their country doesn't go beyond the production and export of its oil. They didn't want to speak to any freedom fighters, I reckon that they wanted to go straight to the top, to Abd-al-Jalil. I've already suggested that they are looking for a murdering gangster they can do business with. Abd-al-Jalil was one of Gadhafi's inner circle, so no doubt Western intelligence gatherers have a nice thick file on his misdeeds that they can use to bring him onside.

Why is Cameron leading the charge on Libya, followed by no one as it happens?
I was thinking, as their domestic policies make them as hated as Thatcher was during the early eighties, the Cameronians will be looking for a Falklands war of their own to get us all to rally round the flag that the right-wing media will wave enthusiastically.
A little Cameronian war doesn't seem likely, but a bit of sabre-rattling doesn't go amiss. "We were up for it, but the Yanks and the Europeans chickened out."
At this point it's worth mentioning a reader's letter in yesterday's Guardian. The writer pointed out the the 'Falklands effect' was a fallacy. The pro-Thatcher vote fell after the Falklands adventure, but her pachydermatous skin was saved by 'Doctor Death' Owen and his misleadingly named 'Social Democrats', who split the anti-Thatcher vote.