I Remembrance Of All 259 Passengers And The 11 Residents Who Were Slaughtered In The Islamic Terrorist Bombing On December 21, 1988
Posted on 08/26/2009 11:09:05 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
JUSTICE secretary Kenny MacAskill was last night under pressure to reveal more details of the medical evidence that led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, after it emerged that only one doctor was willing to say Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi had less than three months to live. Labour and Conservative politicians have demanded the Scottish Government publish details of the doctor's expertise and qualifications, amid suggestions he or she may not have been a prostate cancer expert.
The parties have also raised questions over whether the doctor was employed by the Libyan government or Megrahi's legal team, which could have influenced the judgment.
The evidence provided by the doctor is crucial as compassionate release under Scots law requires that a prisoner has less than three months to live.
Doubts about Megrahi's life expectancy have already been raised by American relatives of the 270 victims of the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December, 1988. But last night the Scottish Government said it would not publish details of the individual who gave the crucial advice.
Mr MacAskill has said he based his decision to release Megrahi on the opinions of a range of experts.
But this is contradicted by a decisive report sent to Mr MacAskill on 10 August.
(Excerpt) Read more at thescotsman.scotsman.com ...
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. Megrahi’s release had opened the way for Britain’s leading oil companies to pursue multibillion-dollar oil contracts with Libya, which had demanded Mr. Megrahi’s 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 Qaddafi’s 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. Megrahi’s 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 they’ll 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 Libyan’s 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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