Lockerbie bomber

[kidgreen61]

Only just got tinternet working again, so I've not been on for a few days.
I expected this subject to be top of the pile.

I find it incredible that he was released, regardless of compassion,simply because he was sentenced to life, therefore should die in jail.

Also, surely the powers that released him would realise there will be huge public and political opposition to the decision.

It's completely beyond me why they let him out, I'd have left him there to rot.

 

[holmslaw]

Crude oil.

 

[RigidRaider]

It seems to me that the nearer you go to Scotland, the more people you find who believe he was innocent. Even Jim Swire believes he was innocent. Al Megrahi constantly protested his innocence - strange behaviour for a supposed religious fanatic who would normally take delight in his crime. And how does anybody suppose that he could have done the whole thing alone?

My belief is that he was just the fall guy. Eventually the whole disgusting story will emerge and you can be sure that the CIA will be heavily implicated. I'm not one for silly conspiracy theories but this story stinks. Either there was somebody or something on that flight that had to disappear or the whole thing was a terrible mistake caused by gross incompetence on somebody's part.

Al Megrahi has prostate cancer. Nowadays it has been recognised that this is a form of cancer, which progresses very slowly and that elderly men will usually die of something else before the cancer gets them, so on balance it's best not to subject them to the gross insult of a major operation in their twilight years. So I conclude that Al Megrahi might just live for a few years yet and in the meantime, in the interest of resuming business with Libya (before the Americans get their paws on the oil) Britain/Scotland found the cancer to be the convenient reason they needed to release the man.

 

[JohnD]

you can be sure that the CIA will be heavily implicated.

Bit of a wild assumption there

You'll be telling us next that the CIA sent the jets into the Twin Towers

 

[dave.m]

From the BBC Correspondent covering the story;

some major British oil and gas companies, bidding for highly competitive contracts with the country could benefit from improved relations between Libya and the UK following Megrahi's release

Say no more!

The Yanks are into this type of operation all over the world when it involves oil, so why not us?

 

[RigidRaider]

Read Jim Swire's site: http://www.lockerbietruth.com/

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Crude oil.

I second that

 

[JohnD]

Read Jim Swire's site: http://www.lockerbieBARMYCONSPIRACYTHEORISTS.com/[/QUOTE]

 

[RigidRaider]

I don't think anybody would deny the oil connection; Britain needs to secure its future oil supplies and Libya, with whom Britain has had cordial business relations, desperately needs outside investment and expertise. I have never visited Libya or done business there but I have been many times to Sudan and Syria, both amongst Bush's "axis of evil" states and the effects of trade embargos and diplomatic isolation are clearly devastating to both countries, as well as damaging to trade with Britain.

Can't help wondering what the Yanks will do though when they see British companies in Libya enjoying the oil business.

 

[namsag]

Yanks ,,,, Lets shout off and protest about this release , but thank fek he has been released without going to appeal as our involvement and knowledge of it before it happeneded will all come out.


JohnD i guess you believe David Kelly committed suicide and the attack on pearl harbour was a surprise attack.
The man in the street means nothing to the powers at be and are expendable with no limit to how many

 

[holmslaw]

Further explanation here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/18/british-energy-companies-investment-libya

 

[vinty]

The Yanks are professional hypocrites,for hilary Clinton to say that releasing a terrorist is"absolutely wrong"she seems to forget that it was her and her husband and the rest of the American establishment who leaned on the British government and the Ulster Unionist people to accept the release of people who had collectively killed more people than were killed at Lockerbie.

What goes round comes round as they say,how many times have people had to watch as the American courts have refused to extradite terrorists to the UK to face justice, now because the victims are Americans she goes all self rightous.

 

[big-all]

i am reluctant to listen to the complaints of a country that locks up people who are innocent for years on end and tortures some whilst egnoring international opinion and complaints

 

[tim west]

Read Jim Swire's site: http://www.lockerbietruth.com/[/QUOTE]

RigidRaider should have wrote wrote:
Read Jim Swire's site: http://www.lockerbieBARMYCONSPIRACYTHEORISTS.com/

Whatever view you wish to believe, the article does open the possibility of a superpower blackmailing another country through sanctions into limited options for them.
Either go out on a limb denying all involvement and accusing the US of underhandedness and hoping that others believe your word(highly unlikely after how the world viewed gaddafi after all that had been said about him, who would believe any spokesperson from his regime?)
and then face years of poverty through sanctions and lack of trade OR Go along with the US plans and accept world condemnation but still keep trading pacts going?

In the end what do you believe, that we are in the west super clean and devoid of any wrong doings or that we have been brainwashed into believing all we are told?

 

[wotan]

The Yanks are professional hypocrites,for hilary Clinton to say that releasing a terrorist is"absolutely wrong"she seems to forget that it was her and her husband and the rest of the American establishment who leaned on the British government and the Ulster Unionist people to accept the release of people who had collectively killed more people than were killed at Lockerbie.

What goes round comes round as they say,how many times have people had to watch as the American courts have refused to extradite terrorists to the UK to face justice, now because the victims are Americans she goes all self rightous.

Absolutely correct!
America then proceeded to foster the idea of international terrorism, 9/11
was allowed to happen, the enemy was within.
Osama Bin Laden became the common suspect for this atrocity.
Iraq was invaded as a show of strength, and our illustrious leader (not) dragged us into an illegal conflict, to kill thousands of innocent Iraq's all in the name of fighting international terrorism, in the search for weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.
Peace loving nations? there is more destructive weaponry in the arsenals of America and britain, than Saddam could ever imagine, ask Dr David Kelly..oops, he committed suicide, can't ask him now.