Libya to boost UK economy!

Count_Dante

mbga9pgf wrote: »

PErsonally, letting the man die in a nation that doesnt have regular access to cutting technology cancer therapy might be penitance enough.

I hope that man dies a slow, painful lingering death.

But just about every nation can afford to dope cancer sufferers up real good before they die, so I'm afraid he won't die a slow and painful death.

You don't have to be a swivel eyed conspiracy theorist to believe there is more to this prisoner release than meets the eye. Is it just oil, or do the authorities know he is really innocent? I find it quite suspicious that he dropped his appeal before he was released. An appeal would no doubt have brought some "interesting" information out into the open.

mbga9pgf

Count_Dante wrote: »

But just about every nation can afford to dope cancer sufferers up real good before they die, so I'm afraid he won't die a slow and painful death.

You don't have to be a swivel eyed conspiracy theorist to believe there is more to this prisoner release than meets the eye. Is it just oil, or do the authorities know he is really innocent? I find it quite suspicious that he dropped his appeal before he was released. An appeal would no doubt have brought some "interesting" information out into the open.

I think with this one (and I know it is unfortunate) better let sleeping dogs lie. I think Qadafffi was a bit miffed after the yaks tried to take him out with a couple of 1000 lb'ers in their abortive 1980's airstrike on tripoli.

Ye who casts the first stone and all that...

Count_Dante

Actually, having seen how al-Megrahi was dressed when he was released, I now realise he had spent far too long in the west coast of Scotland. I'm surprised he didn't get the prison van to stop at a shop for a bottle of "buckie" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine).

mbga9pgf

Count_Dante wrote: »

Actually, having seen how al-Megrahi was dressed when he was released, I now realise he had spent far too long in the west coast of Scotland. I'm surprised he didn't get the prison van to stop at a shop for a bottle of "buckie" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine).

Probably borrowed his clothes off a Labour MP.

beaujolais-nouveau

vivatifosi wrote: »

This makes me so angry. I've posted over on DT at length about this but it is fundamentally wrong to see the memories of 270 victims forgotten in the name of trade

I am one of those who does not believe that Libya had anything to do with the Lockerbie bombing. Iran, more likely, as a retaliation for the Iranian airliner that a US warship shot down (and the US were very unbothered by the Iranian etc loss of life).

mbga9pgf

I am one of those who does not believe that Libya had anything to do with the Lockerbie bombing. Iran, more likely, as a retaliation for the Iranian airliner that a US warship shot down (and the US were very unbothered by the Iranian etc loss of life).

So why not pin it on the Iranians then? Doesnt make sense. What is quite clear is that the passengers that didnt board the flight that checked their bags in were of Libyan descent.

bo_drinker

Just saw Mandelson on the news, he is lying through his teeth you can see it. Libya has won this and made this country look like a bigger joke than it already is.

1echidna

Whether or not it was the Iranians or Libyans who planned the bombing I can't get over the Americans unconcern for the Iranian relatives on their lost flight (shot down by the Americans) in contrast to their concern for their own relatives desire to extract the last ounce of vengeance. It is time they moved on, the freeing of a dying man won't bring their relatives back.

beaujolais-nouveau

mbga9pgf wrote: »

So why not pin it on the Iranians then?

The US interferred.

mbga9pgf wrote: »

What is quite clear is that the passengers that didnt board the flight that checked their bags in were of Libyan descent.

There was a break-in at the Pan Am baggage handling shed at Heathrow. Read this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6069475/Father-still-seeking-Lockerbie-truth-after-20-years.html

Megrahi is going to publish new evidence.

The comments on this Guardian article are interesting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/22/lockerbie-bomber-megrahi-release-debate

Did you know that the relatives of the US victims were awarded millions of US dollars compensation each. Perhaps some of them are worried that, if Megrahi did not do it, they'll have to give back their compensation until the real culprit is found and tried.

Here is Paul Foot, writing in March 2004

So the only hard information the families have is that Abdul Basset al-Megrahi, a Libyan official, apparently working in intelligence, was convicted in January 2001 of bombing the airliner. How he accomplished this feat is still a mystery. The details of the crime did not emerge at the trial, which was held by Scottish judges sitting without a jury in Holland. It lasted 18 months and cost an estimated £50m. ...

There is, in my opinion (not necessarily shared by the families), an explanation for all this, an explanation so shocking that no one in high places can contemplate it. It is that the Lockerbie bombing was carried out not by Libyans at all but by terrorists based in Syria and hired by Iran to avenge the shooting down in the summer of 1988 of an Iranian civil airliner by a US warship. This was the line followed by both British and US police and intelligence investigators after Lockerbie. Through favoured newspapers like the Sunday Times, the investigators named the suspects - some of whom had been found with home-made bombs similar to the one used at Lockerbie.

This line of inquiry persisted until April 1989, when a phone call from President Bush senior to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned her not to proceed with it. A year later, British and US armed forces prepared for an attack on Saddam Hussein's occupying forces in Kuwait. Their coalition desperately needed troops from an Arab country. These were supplied by Syria, which promptly dropped out of the frame of Lockerbie suspects. Libya, not Syria or Iran, mysteriously became the suspect country, and in 1991 the US drew up an indictment against two Libyan suspects. The indictment was based on the "evidence" of a Libyan "defector", handsomely paid by the CIA. His story was such a fantastic farrago of lies and fantasies that it was thrown out by the Scottish judges

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/mar/31/lockerbie.libya

Kev09

Do you think the bad publicity that would arise for a nation already off the XMAS card list for most of the middle east from a successful appeal from a man who died in jail for a crime he did not commit had anything to do with it

So he drops his appeal, and he gets home to die!