Lockerbie bomber to be released

A royal visit to Libya is being reconsidered after the welcome given to the Lockerbie bomber on his return to the country, the BBC understands.

The Foreign Office is reviewing plans for Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, to meet senior figures and promote trade.

The visit - planned for early September - now seems unlikely to go ahead.
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Well, well, that didn't take long.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8213612.stm
 
fastwunz said:
Libiyan idiots - he has come home to a 'hero's welcome'. Dirty scrotes. How can people possibly support a mass murderer. How?
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I'm guessing that none of them see him as a mass murderer, like quite a lot of people here and also people I know personally from Lockerbie.
 
Wicksta - I don't think many people on here understand that the man has served 10 years, that's more than most of our murderers get in the UK. Lets face it folks the chances that he had anything to do with planting, designing or detonating the bomb is almost zero.
 
Guilty or not, a dying mans family deserves to see their terminal loved one. Not letting this man go home to his family would be as hypocritical as blowing up a plane....
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no, hypocritical would have been us planting a bomb on his plane to go off as he landed, taking him and all his supporters out at the same time...?
 
He was granted an appeal last year, guess they didn't want to let him clear his name and let the travesty that was the initial investigation and subsequent trial be hear about more readily. Much easier just to release him on "compassionate" grounds. ;)
 
Kami said:
Wicksta - I don't think many people on here understand that the man has served 10 years, that's more than most of our murderers get in the UK. Lets face it folks the chances that he had anything to do with planting, designing or detonating the bomb is almost zero.
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The average is around 15 years, up from 9 in the 1960's in soft touch Britain :rolleyes:
 
Robert Mueller, the FBI director is complaining that the Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill should never have ordered the release on compassionate grounds of the man found guilty of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie following a show-trial.
Mr Mueller wrote: "Your action in releasing Megrahi is as inexplicable as it is detrimental to the cause of justice. Indeed your action makes a mockery of the rule of law. Your action gives comfort to terrorists around the world who now believe that regardless of the quality of the investigation, the conviction by jury after the defendant is given all due process, and sentence appropriate to the crime, the terrorist will be freed by one man's exercise of 'compassion'."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8216122.stm
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If the FBI director is that concerned about the cause of justice he should ask the remarkably coy and secretive British Government to withdraw the PII certificate that they have issued over correspondence in relation to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, disclose to the defence team all the information they have and demand an full public enquiry immediately.
 
I dont have the words for this.......

So mad that they let this animal go.

"Compassion" ???? For starters this scum should have been kept in a 5 X 5ft metal cell with no window, allowed no visits, no time outside and fed bread and water twice a week through a slit in the door. THAT would be a prison.

But the world just cannot comprehend that they let him GO.

The UK is already the joke of the world when it comes to punishing criminals. Well this has now cemented that.

RIP to those poor people who did NOT get compassion - the people on that plane.

May this idiot rot in hell for eternity.

TOTALLY & UTTERLY agree with Robert Mueller.

Life should mean life. We're too soft.
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Agreed. What would death-penalty or life-term sentences in other countries is a community sentece or some silly term like 12 years for murder over here. What message does that give to the criminals who plead "insanity" and run screaming "human rights". Someone fetch the barf bag.
 
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Lockerbie: Now it's payback time... America boycotts British goods as anger grows over release of bomber


Britain was warned last night it faces ' payback time' from the U.S. over the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

The alert came as American consumers were urged to boycott British and Scottish exports and holiday in Ireland instead of the UK.
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Laughable.

A U.S. government source, who discussed the case over the weekend with top State Department and Congressional officials, told the Daily Mail: 'There is a feeling of great outrage and anger in this country and it will not go away. It is becoming a significant bilateral issue.

'At least two senators are already demanding a full investigation to see if there was any link between the release and British oil and other commercial interests.

'The Prime Minister needs to speak out and make it very clear that there were no such links. This comes at a time when the special relationship is not as strong as it once was and there is no close personal friendship between Brown and Obama to act as a cushion.'
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Of course the US would never do anything questionable to further its oil interests around the world would it! :rolleyes: What breathtaking hypocrisy. I think the comments on the Mail site are right, we have a 'special relationship' with the Yanks only while we do exactly as they tell us to do - there is no deep love between our two nations and never has been, whether it be over WW2 when they only begrudgingly helped us and screwed us financially in the process, whether it be over harbouring IRA terrorists and allowing IRA fundraising in the past, or whether it be Gary McKinnon's extradition.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ycott-British-goods-American-anger-grows.html
 
HAHAHAHAHAHA ROFL
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Senator-wants-bank-bailout-cash.5580411.jp said:
Senator wants bank bailout cash returned in bomber release row
Published Date: 24 August 2009

A SENATOR in the US has called on American taxpayers to demand the return of money used to bail out Scottish banks in the wake of the decision to free the Lockerbie bomber.
New York State Senator, Andrew Lanza, lost three of his Staten Island constituents in the Lockerbie bombing.

Sen Lanza, a Republican, also suggested that "Americans exert economic pressure on Scotland by trading in their Johnny Walker for American spirits".

While UK banks including Barclays and HSBC were also beneficiaries of a US-taxpayer funded rescue package to prop up American International Group (AIG), Senator Lanza centred his scorn on the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Sen Lanza said: "The Royal Bank of Scotland… should be made to repay American bailout dollars it received through AIG."

However, an online campaign to damage Scotland's economy in the wake of the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was last night struggling to attract widespread support.

Despite concerns that the fallout could harm Scotland's international standing, only a few hundred people put their names to petitions set up to boycott travel to Scotland and the purchase of exports.

Statistics from Google show that at one point yesterday, the phrase, "boycott Scotland" was the fourth most popular search term in the US.

Despite numerous Americans contacting The Scotsman to make clear they would be cancelling holidays to Scotland and shunning Scottish goods, any fears that the internet campaign would quickly garner large-scale support appear unfounded.

By 5pm yesterday, the two petitions had attracted just over 300 people in total.

John McNamara from Georgia wrote for many when he stated: "I will be content to go to my grave not spending one nickel in Scotland or setting foot on her soil."

However, others warned against persecuting ordinary people and businesses.

Roger Bruce, from Virginia, wrote: "Instead of a boycott, we should encourage Scotland to 'throw the bums' out of office. Hold the correct people accountable."

Posters to scotsman.com also continued the debate. Huntly Loon said: "It now becomes apparent that America cannot accept a decision made in another country and is prepared to spout its wrath against one of it oldest and most loyal allies."
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We should never forget the enormous help Britain received from the USA in our fight against terrorism . . . some one remind me please, weren't those particular terrorists commonly known as the IRA :confused:

In fact, now that I come to think of it, both Libya and the USA were pretty much on the same side over anti-terrorism where the IRA were concerned :mad:
 
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