[ClearCase_guy]

Why they opposed further prison time for al-Megrahi remains unexplained.

Really??

[beebuster2000]

i predict another beer summit, muamar q and hugo c.

[Texas resident]

Bambi told the country that when the poop hits the fan, he would side with the muslim world.
Just doing what he said he would.

[PGalt]

“Isn’t even the contemplation of “compassionate release” for such a man a miscarriage of justice for those who were killed, and an indication of a moral myopia staggering in its severity on the part of British authorities and Obama?”

It’s worse than that, Robert. Abdelbeset’s head should be on a pike with maggots feasting on it.

Moral myopia?

To borrow a phrase from FReeper Noumenon’s excellent essay...

“killers without conscience and their enablers”

...here...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2509007/posts

[livius]

it is not beyond the realm of possibility that he directed U.S. officials to approve of al-Megrahi’s “compassionate release” as yet another gesture of good will toward the Islamic world.

That's what I suspect. No one is any longer denying that the US government knew about it in advance and was clearly supporting it, not even wanting to consider the possibility of transferring him to a prison in Libya. Yet at the same time, the official US reaction was surprise and shock? Sorry, doesn't pass the smell test.

[Carley]

O was for the release before he was against the release but in the end he was for the release.