Freed for Oil-Lockerbie Quid Pro Quo?

Freed for Oil
Lockerbie Quid Pro Quo?

The head of the Libyan British Trade Council said the Lockerbie bomber's release opened the door to multibillion-dollar oil deals. Britain slammed the suggestion of quid pro quo as "a slur."

Shady business in Britain: On Friday, Lord Trefgarne, the head of the Libyan British Trade Council, said that the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi opened the way for British oil companies to negotiate multibillion-dollar oil contracts with Libya,which had demanded al-Megrahi’s release in return for access. “Perhaps now, with the final resolution of the Lockerbie affair, as far as the Libyans are concerned, maybe they’ll move a bit more swiftly,” Lord Trefgarne said. Meanwhile, Libyan Leader Muammar Qaddafi greeted al-Megrahi with a hug, and praised Scotland’s “courageously right and humanitarian decision" to release him.
Read it at The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/world/europe/22lockerbie.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/lockerbie-quid-for-quo/conspiracies?cid=hp:mainpromo2

of granting compassionate release to dying prisoners, even monsters.