US = High N Mighty ?

I did some reading on the subject a while ago, and it seems that the conviction was very shakey... At the very least. There is a lot of speculation that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was almost setup. Lots of the evidence hinged on a man (clothes trader) who gave a lot of contradictory evidence, and some that could be considered inconclusive.

Wiki has some half decent stuff on the subject.
 
Could you imagine Obama being asked to come visit MP's here in the UK? lol no.

Yet have they been asked why they helped fund IRA during the height of the troubles? No.

Atypical!
 
Someone is trying to make some money.

Its in the interest many people to make BP fail.
If the share price drops low enough, a company can buy out BP dirt cheap and make billions. I'm of the belief that the Americans are being pushed by large companies to keep the pressure on BP.
 
A lot of americans died if I remember rightly.

I'd be upset if the UK didn't question the americans releasing a terrorist that killed many of our people.
 
AmTechFox said:
Yet have they been asked why they helped fund IRA during the height of the troubles? No.
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As far as I am aware there has never been any hint at all of the US government funding the IRA. Plenty of US citizens doing it, but the government itself was never involved or even rumoured to be involved.
 
If the US Senators really want to uncover any potential BP involvement in all this, then they should look closely at the prisoner transfer agreement which was signed by the UK Government and Tony Blair without even consulting the Scottish Government. BP were not involved in the actual 'compassionate release' of Megrahi, a fact the US Senators are perfectly aware of. All this renewed fuss is cynical posturing ahead of their upcoming election.
 
afraser2k said:
Obama is just looking for another reason to keep up the pressure on BP over the oil spill given Obama's low approval rating.

The UK government doesn't want to hurt the UK/US trade so blames the Scottish parliament for the decision even though it was obvious that deals were made with Libya over access to their oil and helping with the release. Kenny MacAskill even stated they didn't get the prisoner transfer due to "murky" dealings and that the release decision was purely on medical grounds.

Cameron just comes across as being very weak when dealing with the US in his current trip when at least our local politicians are telling the US it's a matter for Scottish justice and we don't answer to them.
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I disagree with your middle section, the Prisoner Transfer seemed a pretty much done deal, that's why al-Megrahi stopped his appeal as it couldn't go through while the appeal was active. BP admit lobbying for the PT, and a PT would have been a UK decision not a Scottish one, hence I'm more inclined to believe that the Scots got medical advice that al-Megrahi would be dead in a few months and acted like petulant children by using their power to free him to spite the UK government in a bizarre power trip. Except that now the guy is still alive nearly a year later they look like chumps.
 
RDM said:
As far as I am aware there has never been any hint at all of the US government funding the IRA. Plenty of US citizens doing it, but the government itself was never involved or even rumoured to be involved.
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While that might be true, there were US senators like Ted Kennedy (who we gave an honourary knighthood to :rolleyes: ) who were supportive of the IRA. Even after the troubles they blocked legislation that would have sped up the time taken to extradite suspected criminals from the US to the UK.
 
I'm tired of hearing the us's opinion on world affairs, the hypocrisy spouting from them makes me laugh the most. Especially over the BP spill, many us companies have had much more costly spills in terms of human life lost, they are also harbouring CEOs who are wanted for criminal charges for spills yet the us refuse to extradite them to face the courts. Obama saying he would do everything to help clean the mess up, but harps on about how it's bps responsibility to pay and organise it all, if he was that worried he would have full gov agencies helping to get the clean up sorted. And this on the back that everyone on the cost lines are getting more jobs, more payouts than they would earn in a year, hotels booked out etc.
 
Perhaps they felt embarrased to be involved in a stich up, where the FBI allegedly tried to pay people (large sums!) for false statements, and refused to test key physical evidence properly for "budgetry reasons"
 
RDM said:
As far as I am aware there has never been any hint at all of the US government funding the IRA. Plenty of US citizens doing it, but the government itself was never involved or even rumoured to be involved.
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Not quite true, your right that many dem senators didn't actually put their hands into their own pockets, but they certainly openly supported fund raising in the US.
 
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