Scotland defends Megrahi's release

Source: Al Jazeera


Saif al-Islam, right, said al-Megrahi's release
had often been raised with UK in oil and gas talks

Scotland defends Megrahi's release

Scotland has rejected criticism from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over the release of the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, while the British government strongly denied Tripoli's claims that the gesture was linked to trade deals.

In a letter to Kenny MacAskill , Scotland's justice secretary, released on Saturday, Robert Mueller, the FBI director, denounced his decision to free Abdel basset al-Megrahi.

Mueller, who in 1991 was assistant attorney general in charge of the investigation of al-Megrahi, wrote that he was "outraged at the decision, blithely defended on the grounds of 'compassion'".

But the Scottish government hit back, saying that while compassionate release might not be part of the US justice system, it was a proper part of Scotland's.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/08/20098222368517564.html

In Libya, his battle with cancer may cause him quite a bit more suffering.

The "compassion" that lead to his release may be questionable whether his release was part of a trade or not.

(and particurarly different Scottish law) hits the headlines.

As I recall, the conviction of this man (and of Libya) wasn't very convincing in the first place. Wasn't there a CIA op going on, involving that flight, at the time? I also heard Sirian interests mentioned.

But they are willing to tow "the appeasement" line in the west

Just to stir your spook pot, here is a completely unrealted story

seems the burka can be used to swing both ways by all sides ! ;)
?
But
why would a French '"spy" feel the need to escape from Dubai?

France doesn't have to spy on Dubai, we have a military base there with jets, navy etc....

sounds like a typical case of Munchaüsen syndrome

From Munich to Munchhausen, everybody has embassy's set up for the purpose to doing business


Dubai
hmmmm.

Many years ago I recall numerous threads posted on this board about Dubai and the planned purchase of east coast US port control operations. ( *co was pushing the idea of allowing the sale )


Comments about the sale to "business interests located in Dubai " were not thought to be Munchaüsen syndrome then ;)



But your prognosis has been duly noted doc toc.

it's easier to draw conclusions after reading the article.

After it's done messing with Canada.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT03/refresh/AL0309W5_NL+gif/084115W5_NL_sm.gif

The Irish had nothing to do with this.

:nuke:

:crazy:

No punishment would be too severe for anyone involved in the attack.

http://www.victimsofpanamflight103.org/victims

We hold the moral high ground. Listen to what we say NOT what we do. :(

Letting him out of prison before he's dead puts everyone in the world at risk.

:puke:

The weather there is punishment already!

:) :hi:

There are certainly questions about his conviction:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208432/A-2m-witness-payment-bogus-forensic-evidence-Pentagon-memo-blaming-Iran-How-Lockerbie-bomber-threatened-Scottish-justice.html

The suggestion that Iran (non-withstanding Gaddafi's claim a few years ago of having the 'honor' for the bombing) was the responsible party certainly seems plausible, especially in view of the US Navy having, only a few month's before, shot down an Iranian Civilian Airliner killing all 300 or so aboard.

http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/shootingdown_iranair_flight655.php

The incident continued to overshadow U.S.-Iran relations for many years. Following the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 six months later, the British and American governments initially blamed the PFLP-GC, a Palestinian militant group backed by Syria, with assumptions of assistance from Iran in retaliation for Iran Air Flight 655. The blame was later shifted to Libya.

Vice President George H. W. Bush (later President of United States of America) declared a month later,
"I will never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are."
Newsweek, August 15, 1988
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It is also of note, that at the time she fired on the airliner, USS Vincennes was under attack by Iranian gun-boats, and those on-board were highly stressed. Though the ship and crew were awarded medals, to me it seems that the CIC staff simply panicked and ignored what they were actually seeing. As evidence to support this, another cruiser, USS Sides, had also been tracking flight 655 & concluded that it was, indeed, a commercial flight.

(I was thinking in Spanish).

We doubt the "official story" there almost as much as, for example, the Dr. David Kelly no-inquest case and, you-know-what.

So also a big FU to Gordon Brown and Co.