Libya: Tony Blair 'too close' to Gaddafi regime, David Cameron claims - Telegraph

"That relationship needed to have some clear parameters. Parameters should have been in place when this relationship began."

Since leaving office, Mr Blair made use of his ties with the Gaddafi family and was once described as "a personal family friend", by one of the dictator's sons.

Now an adviser to a US investment bank, Mr Blair has visited Libya and met Col Gaddafi on business in recent years. He has repeatedly denied any direct financial relationship with the Gaddafi regime.

Speaking in Qatar on the latest leg of his Middle East tour, Mr Cameron said the Libyan regime's recent violence against opposition protestors was "completely unacceptable.

However, Mr Cameron rejected a call from Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, for the European Union to impose economic sanctions on Libya.

Mr Cameron's comments came as Libya's outgoing justice minister told a Swedish newspaper that he had "proof" Col Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988.

Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, who stepped down to protest the clampdown on demonstrations, told Expressen newspaper, that Gaddafi gave the order to Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in the bombing, although he did not describe the proof in question.

via telegraph.co.uk