Lockerbie bomber to be released

Whackeygrunt said:
Put your crazy conspiracy theory like thoughts away.
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The collection of evidence from Britain's worst act of terrorism began immediately - and within a week detectives announced it had been caused by a bomb in a radio cassette player.
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Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was one of the victims of the atrocity, said a break-in [at Heathrow Airport] the night before near the Pan Am secure baggage area was not fully investigated by police, who he claims concealed the evidence. "I wrote recently to the Crown Office (which handles Scottish prosecutions) asking why that had been concealed for 12 years, and if they knew about it all along," he said. He said they would not answer his question, which he said meant there must now be a thorough inquiry into the incident. During Megrahi's first appeal, held at Kamp van Zeist in the Netherlands, his counsel raised the matter, saying it cast doubt on claims that the fatal bomb must have been loaded in Malta. But the five appeal judges rejected the suggestion.

Malta had become crucial once police found a fragment of the bomb timer wrapped in a piece of clothing in a Dumfriesshire forest. The clothes had Maltese labels - but question marks remain about how this discovery was made several months after the disaster, and also over how the material was handled. The original trial heard labels on police evidence bags containing the fragment had been changed: the evidence of the officer who had done this was heavily criticised by the trial judges.

There were question marks too over Tony Gauci, a Maltese shopkeeper who was the only man to identify Megrahi. His evidence was that the Libyan, who he picked out at an identity parade, had bought the clothes at his shop. But his police statements are inconsistent, and prosecutors failed to tell the defence that shortly before he attended an identity parade, Mr Gauci had seen a magazine article showing a picture of Megrahi, and speculating he might have been involved. Mr Gauci now lives in Australia, and is believed to have been paid several million dollars by the Americans for his evidence.

Secret documents before the Appeal Court - which even the defence has not seen - might have provided new information. They will now remain undisclosed, after the foreign secretary issued a Public Information Immunity certificate stating that to publish them would be to the detriment of UK national security.


Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is now dying, but he may have been a convenient scapegoat for a much bigger conspiracy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8211596.stm
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You should lay off the baccy, whacky ;)
 
Whackeygrunt said:
Would you want to exsist in a world alongside people who think blowing hundereds of other people up is the right thign to do? I wouldn't. Oh wait....
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You'd be killing people for generations to come, probably indefinitely if you purely did it based on what they thought.

The problem I have with the death sentence is that I believe everyone has the capacity for change, it just seems to me that ending a life as a form of justice is the easy way out. I'm not saying everyone should be freed, but that every effort should be made to get them to do something good with their life.

Now to contradict all that I'd probably want them dead if I lost a loved one, but I believe the principal above should stand as a general rule.
 
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I am glad he has been released... if not he would end up in a hospital some where when his condition gets worse and we would be paying taxes to treat him
 
Glad hes been released...what a joke this has been for both the American and British...theres no way he should have been tried and imprisoned...should have never went that far.

But am happy hes been released.
 
Begbie said:
Fortunatly people change, and I hope he enjoys the last of his months a happy man.
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So the moral of this story is kill 270 people, get let off after a few years in jail.

Can't quite justify the thought process behind releasing him myself...

If the evidence wasnt enough to put him behind bars in the first place, thats a totally different issue.
 
matt_fsr said:
So the moral of this story is kill 270 people, get let off after a few years in jail.

Can't quite justify the thought process behind releasing him myself...

If the evidence wasnt enough to put him behind bars in the first place, thats a totally different issue.
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lol, 'few' years.
 
the british system wouldnt allow him to sit in his cell dying of prostate cancer, hed be in hospital costing the tax payer even more, good on him being sent home, someone elses problem now and gets to make something of the last moments of his life
 
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the british system wouldnt allow him to sit in his cell dying of prostate cancer, hed be in hospital costing the tax payer even more, good on him being sent home, someone elses problem now and gets to make something of the last moments of his life
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This is true he has been at the hospital my wife works at a few times. Wonder if this means the sky tv and other goodies funded by Libya at that jail will now be removed as he was hardly haveing a hard time of it there except of course for his illness.
 
McMav said:
It is he should be sitting in his cell dying of it.
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Ok this is all I'm going to say on it now:
  • If he did it and he sincerely regrets his actions, ravaged with guilt, etc I don't see why he shouldn't be shown compassion and allowed to die with his family.
  • If he did it and he's smug as a bug about it then you're right he should stay in prison.
  • If he didn't do it he should definitely be allowed to die with his family.
  • If there's any doubt over whether or not he did it doesn't bloody matter, let him go home, he'll be dead in three months anyway. Just don't let him anywhere near an airport (apart from the flight home).
 
Hans Köchler said:
Irrespective of the outcome of the current appeal, there should be a reinvestigation of the incident by the Scottish authorities. It is extremely frustrating that with regard to such an incident just one person has been presented as the culprit and no further questions asked. Only a child would believe such a story.

In giving exoneration to the police, prosecutors and forensic staff, I think [the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission] show their lack of independence. No officials to be blamed: simply a Maltese shopkeeper.
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Hans Köchler was an UN observer at the original trial of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi; he described the dismissal of al-Megrahi’s appeal as a "spectacular miscarriage of justice"
 
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