Posted on 08/26/2009 11:09:05 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
I would say that the CIA should send someone over to Libya to provide “end of life” assistance to this scum, but since the CIA can’t even talk crossly at prisoners under the Baraq Hussein mohammed 0nama’s regime, I guess we’ll just have to hope that maybe the Mossad or someone else helps us out.
From today’s NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/world/europe/22lockerbie.html?hpw
On Friday, Lord Trefgarne, chairman of the Libyan British Business Council, said Mr. Megrahis release had opened the way for Britains leading oil companies to pursue multibillion-dollar oil contracts with Libya, which had demanded Mr. Megrahis return in talks with British officials and business executives.
Lord Trefgarne told the BBC that talks on oil contracts had not moved as fast as we would have hoped and expected since Tony Blair, then prime minister, met in a tent in Libya five years ago with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, and set the terms for the deal in the desert that sketched a reconciliation between Colonel Qaddafis pariah government and the West.
British business executives had made no secret of their intense lobbying for a prisoner transfer treaty proposed by Mr. Blair and Col. Qaddafi and finally ratified by Britain and Libya in April; before Mr. Megrahis cancer diagnosis, that treaty was seen as the most likely avenue for his return to Libya. But his cancer, and a finding by medical specialists that he was not likely to live more than three months, cleared the way for his release on compassionate grounds.
Perhaps now, with the final resolution of the Lockerbie affair, as far as the Libyans are concerned, maybe theyll move a bit more swiftly, Lord Trefgarne said.
Although there was no firm evidence of any quid pro quo between Britain and Libya, the British government acted vigorously on Friday to defend itself against accusations that it paved the way for the Libyans release to promote British-based oil companies hopes of securing pole position in the international contest for new Libyan oil concessions.
Foreign Minister David Miliband told the BBC that it was a slur both on myself and the government to suggest that oil was a factor.
As I said, this was a by-product not the cause.
The decision was not made by the British Government.
You know better than I...Thanks
Gee...why am I not surprised on bit.
You are right that the British economy will benefit, hence the muted response.
However, even if the UK government were fervently against it there was nothing they could do. This was a devolved matter to the Scottish Executive.
From the other stories about this, it sure sounds like the British government has been working on this oil deal for years and that the release of this mass murderer was a condition for the deal. The ultimate decision may have been up to the Scottish leader, but it looks bad for all Brits. I’m betting this guy is still alive in ten years and that the 3 months to live thing was a lie to “sell” the release to the public. It’s all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Not just the British Government. Do you think releasing Megrahi was a secret? If I knew a month ago he was definitely getting release then so did the US administration too.
Britain is getting trade deals and the US is getting a nuclear and terrorist free Libya. Do you honestly think if Obama had said that he takes Megrahi’s release as a totally unfriendly act and that it was his top priority that results would have been the same?
I think that the current US administration is as despicable as the current British government.
No doubt the British government has done an “oil for terrorists” deal.
Scotland does not conduct its own foreign diplomacy, so the British govt is responsible, and obviously, had some role in the release. They could have prevented the return of the Islamic terrorist to Libya, whether the Scottish court released him or not
Amazing that this same UK has put Michael Savage on a “do not enter Britain” list....but will allow a mass-murder Islamic terrorist to go free.
Time to put UK on the list of “state sponsors of terror”. What a wimpy, Islamphillic nation the UK has become.
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