The Lockerbie Bomber is Dead

The Halk said:
Yes. How we treat the worst of us is how we should judge ourselves as a society.

The timing of it appeared to have been wrong, 3 months to live my arse. However the principle of releasing someone to die with their family is a sound compassionate one.
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Can't agree. He should have been launched out of an aeroplane with explosives strapped to him, which should have been remotely detonated half way through his descent.
 
Vespasian777 said:
Can't agree. He should have been launched out of an aeroplane with explosives strapped to him, which should have been remotely detonated half way through his descent.
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The evidence is rather ropey, including the witnesses. Who were reward-bribed and have been apparently been proved to be unreliable and liars.

It certainly didn't end with him if he was involved beyond being a fall man.
 
mparter said:
Did any Americans go to jail for shooting down the Iranian civilian aircraft which is supposedly one of the reasons why Lockerbie happened?
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Nope, they were declared All American Heroes. The Captain of the USS Vincennes is alleged to have spent five minutes deciding whether or not to shoot down the Iran Air Airbus, so hardly a spur of the moment decision. His wife subsequently wrote a fictional work justifying his deliberate murder of 290 civilians.

Vespasian777 said:
... He should have been launched out of an aeroplane with explosives strapped to him, which should have been remotely detonated half way through his descent.
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Half-witted illiterates who are incapable of distinguishing between "of" and "have" should be launched out of aeroplanes with dictionaries strapped to them :(
 
stockhausen said:
a) What on earth gives you the idea that the CIA want us to have any answers :confused:
b) What on earth gives you the idea that the answers are to be found in Libya :confused:
c) Most literate people would have used the word "eludes" :p
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A) Say what you like about the USA but one of the good things is their declassification over time, the truth normally comes out even if its something horrific like the CIA calling in the Mafia to flood the projects with drugs in order to try and kill the black rights movement.

B) Because all the evidence pointed to Libya being involved, Gaddafi having ordered it, and Megrahi being a scapegoat (and knowing Gaddafi probably on a "admit to it or your children die screaming" basis).

c) Indeed :P



Evangelion said:
RIP Megrahi. An innocent man thrown to the wolves for the sake of political expedience.
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This.



mparter said:
Did any Americans go to jail for shooting down the Iranian civilian aircraft which is supposedly one of the reasons why Lockerbie happened?
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Lol, of course not, killing innocent civilians and war crimes are what the bad guys do, the US/UK are more into "collateral damage".
 
stockhausen said:
Nope, they were declared All American Heroes. The Captain of the USS Vincennes is alleged to have spent five minutes deciding whether or not to shoot down the Iran Air Airbus, so hardly a spur of the moment decision. His wife subsequently wrote a fictional work justifying his deliberate murder of 290 civilians.

Half-witted illiterates who are incapable of distinguishing between "of" and "have" should be launched out of aeroplanes with dictionaries strapped to them :(
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People who make cheap shots about other peoples grammar, because they don't hold the same viewpoint, should be somehow made to grow up. If it can't be done, they should be dressed in a nappy, and launched out of an aeroplane.
 
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His guilt is far from proven, the case against him was a sham.

A joint statement from Justice for Megrahi – signed by 42 public figures and journalists including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former BBC chief news correspondent Kate Adie, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Scotland's most senior Catholic, and Professor Noam Chomsky – demanded an independent inquiry into Megrahi's conviction. His prosecution was based on "a fantastical tale" with no direct or forensic evidence to support a tenuous circumstantial case, they said.
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If you want to find out more I urge you to read this:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/gareth-peirce/the-framing-of-al-megrahi
 
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