Col. Qaddafi comes through for the Armenian homicide

Check out this Times piece:

A few weeks ago, a check for $491,000 was delivered to a small private middle school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, De La Salle Academy, which serves academically talented kids regardless of how much money their families have.

Naturally, the $491,000 check was promptly banked, the last in a series of payments from one source that now amount to $2,470,000.

“It’s nearly our entire endowment,” said the principal, Brother Brian Carty. . .

“That check was the final payment of the Qaddafi money,” Brother Carty said. “Muammar Qaddafi has turned out to be our single biggest donor — not that he meant to be.”

That would be the Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, leader of Libya, where he is known as the “Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.” The money to De La Salle Academy is among the final payments made by Libya to the survivors of people who were killed 20 years ago this month when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland.

(Hat tip: BO)