When President Bush addressed Congress for the first time after 9/11, Tony Blair was in the house, and President Bush said something close to, "America has no greater ally than Great Britain." I agreed with him then. Now, I'm not so sure.

(CNN) -- A top Libyan oil official on Friday denied allegations of an agreement to free the Lockerbie bomber in exchange for bolstered BP commercial interests in the country.
Britain and Libya had sparred over whether Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi should be included in a prisoner transfer agreement the two nations were negotiating. Under the agreement, Libyan prisoners in Britain would be transferred to Libya to serve out their sentences.
British officials and BP said the oil company's interests -- mainly, seeking a huge deal to drill for oil in Libya -- were a consideration in those talks.
In the end, al Megrahi was included in the transfer agreement, but he was never transferred to a Libyan jail. Instead, he was freed on what officials in Scotland said were humanitarian grounds separate from the agreement.
Days after Britain and Libya concluded the transfer agreement last year, Libya and BP signed a deal that the company called the biggest financial commitment for exploration that an international energy company had ever made to Libya.