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Report: Lockerbie bomber 'blackmailed' Gadhafi
Associated Press ^
| Feb. 27, 2011
Posted on 02/27/2011 1:44:39 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
LONDON (AP) -- The former Libyan justice minister has reportedly said that the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing had blackmailed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi into securing his release by threatening to expose his role in the attack.
The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as saying that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi had warned Gadhafi that he would "reveal everything" about the 1988 bombing of an American flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, if he wasn't rescued from a Scottish prison.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp; brown; lockerbie; obama; scotland
To: Free ThinkerNY
He couldn't have done anything without Scottish/British complicity.
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posted on
02/27/2011 1:48:42 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: Free ThinkerNY
BS....WHO blackmails a ruthless murdering scum bag....and then goes “home” to face him?.....just the AP trying to smooth over the deal that was made...
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posted on
02/27/2011 1:50:02 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
02/27/2011 1:50:21 PM PST
by
dalebert
To: Doogle; Free ThinkerNY
BS....WHO blackmails a ruthless murdering scum bag....and then goes “home” to face him?.....just the AP trying to smooth over the deal that was made... I agree.
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posted on
02/27/2011 1:53:34 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
To: Free ThinkerNY
Barry Soros took $4M donation form the thug and now AP is trying to clear barrY’s name.
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posted on
02/27/2011 1:58:23 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(The government is not my god no matter how much they preach.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
>the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing had blackmailed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi into securing his release by threatening to expose his role in the attack.
Not really blackmail - that is a falling out between murderers and co conspirators.
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posted on
02/27/2011 1:59:06 PM PST
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: Doogle
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posted on
02/27/2011 1:59:49 PM PST
by
Track9
(Make War!!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Gadhafi should be brought to the United States to face 259 murder charges.
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
02/27/2011 2:07:44 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
To: The Free Engineer
Gadhafi didn’t release this criminal..the UK did. They released him to get favor with Gadhafi. BP wanted it..they probably donated to Obama also not to raise a big ruckus about it.
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posted on
02/27/2011 2:07:47 PM PST
by
Oldexpat
To: Oldexpat
I would think that the ripples go past Ghadaffi and right into the White House. I believe Ghadaffi could spill the truth on Obama.
To: The Free Engineer
And one of the 259 was a friend and neighbor of mine.
19 years old.
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posted on
02/27/2011 2:50:56 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Free ThinkerNY
This may very well be true. Why then did authorities in the UK and the US collaborate in releasing this fellow back to Libya? Just to end the matter and get on with making money trading with Libya? One wonders also what the Iranian role may have been. I always suspected the Iranians planned the operation and paid the Libyans off to do as a way to pay the US back for the airliner shoot-down in the Persian Gulf in ‘86.
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