fiannanahalba
Feel the Love
Glad hes still alive. Hes an innocent man who as an intelligence officer of his country took the fall.
Release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi or not?
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Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
but they would-still no nearer justiceor closure, then
which is a perfectlygood description of the british govt's conduct, is it not?
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Those reports were just stupid. The only question was how accurate the medical opinion was.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
The medical opinion used was that of the head of the prison service medial service. Having met a number of prison doctors, one comes to the conclusion that they are there because they cannot get employment elsewhere. They were a disinterested and callous lot, who had little but contempt for their patients, and were not highly skilled practitioners.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
How accurate are prognoses of amount of time left in cancer cases anyway? If that video footage is a true representation of his condition now then they just got their timing wrong. Deliberately or otherwise. If it was misrepresented and if it was the prison doctor's initiative to misrepresent that then he's far from callous.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
It's interesting, isn't it, that Mr Sas would be shouting about a "childish acab attitude" if anyone expressed about prison officers or police officers the opinions he expresses about prison medics.
The fact remains that al-Megrahi was not faking cancer, and that the doctor was right that he didn't have long to live. The people who think these things can be spot on are missing the point; he was a dying man released on compassionate grounds. If you don't like that, tough.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Indeed. Glad the poor sod got to spend the last two years with his family.
I have read the article by Robert Fisk in the Independent, and seen the television documentary, both of which cast very severe doubt over the conviction of Al Magrahi. It annoys me that the media (ITN and CNN recently) casually refer to him as 'The Lockerbie Bomber' rather than calling him 'the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing'.
I suspect that the reason he was released was because he was due to make an appeal. That appeal would have brought the evidence found by Fisk and the documentary makers into court and opened up the publicity on the political motivations for his being charged when originally it had been a team of Syrians who had been suspected. Luckily for our secret services and their political overlords, al Megrahi became mortally ill. I don't think this was faked, but it gave a marvellous excuse to get him out of the country and out of the courts.
How unfortunate for our secret services that the Libyan scapegoat government is now toppled. The comment about Megrahi 'taking the secret of Lockerbie to his grave' is nonsense, as he most likely didn't do it in the first place.
It shouldn't be impossible for the whole case to be opened up again with a view to finding out which country instigated the bombing. After all we now no longer need to scapegoat Libya and Ghadaffi and we also no longer need not to upset Syria
I suspect that the reason he was released was because he was due to make an appeal. That appeal would have brought the evidence found by Fisk and the documentary makers into court and opened up the publicity on the political motivations for his being charged when originally it had been a team of Syrians who had been suspected. Luckily for our secret services and their political overlords, al Megrahi became mortally ill. I don't think this was faked, but it gave a marvellous excuse to get him out of the country and out of the courts.
How unfortunate for our secret services that the Libyan scapegoat government is now toppled. The comment about Megrahi 'taking the secret of Lockerbie to his grave' is nonsense, as he most likely didn't do it in the first place.
It shouldn't be impossible for the whole case to be opened up again with a view to finding out which country instigated the bombing. After all we now no longer need to scapegoat Libya and Ghadaffi and we also no longer need not to upset Syria
danny la rouge
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Indeed. Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the Lockerbie bomb, has always said he doubted the man's guilt. From the outside, it seemed strange to me that he was convicted, but not the man accused of being his accomplice. Since much of the presented case linked the two, I couldn't see how one could be convicted but not the other; it was surely both or neither. However, I was only following reports; I wasn't in court.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
I was under the impression that although Megrahi didn't 'do it' he was very high up in the Libyan equivalent of our intelligence services and would therefore probably have at least some knowledge about the whole thing, if it was indeed a Libyan attack.
As for his health he was(allegedly) refusing treatment while in Scotland ergo he WAS deteriorating rapidly but when he got home he got treatment which obviously helped prolong his life. The doctors couldn't have known he was going to get good treatment once he got home.
As hard as it might be to not know the truth I think the families of those murdered need to try to accept that that's the way it is and move on. I have no idea if I could but would like to think it is possible. I'd hate to have something like that festering in me for over 20 yrs!
My guess is that the Westminster government just wants a chance to do some posturing and also crawling to the Americans. It is a couple of American senators who have called for extradition. Cameron has said before that he didn't agree with releasing Megrahi. Cameron has his own petty political reasons probably about objecting to Scottish freedom to make these decisions.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
At the time of the trial I was working with APTN and those covering the case said that 100% of the journos there knew that he had not much to do with it. The attack was orchastrated by the Iranians in revenge for the US downing one of their airliners with barely an appology.
Who actually planted the bomb, to Jim Swire and many others, is not the issue, why the bomb was planted is. The US doesn't want to dwell on that bit though.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I've just been "liking" some posts on here. Took a while for me to realise the post was from 2009 
danny la rouge
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Exactly. Extradited for what? The UK or US governments would have to come up with a charge if they want to extradite him. It can't be for the Lockerbie bombing; he's been tried and found guilty by Scots courts for that, and the Scottish government doesn't want to extradite him.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14705838
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Don't you like anything that happened in 2009?I've just been "liking" some posts on here. Took a while for me to realise the post was from 2009
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
I like some things from centuries ago: Bach's Cello Suites; Shakespeare's The Tempest; Giotto's Kiss of Judas...Of course, but my liking is out of date now
But it was only a *Scottish* court so not really a proper one as far as the Westminster government's concerned.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
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