London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
If he had anything to do with Lockerbie, I'm Brian Blessed.
Release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi or not?
- Thread starter weltweit
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He was found guilty. End of. Oh wait. He appealed, and was found guilty again. End of. Oh wait, and then he appealed. Again. And was found guilty.
He then dropped his next appeal so he could take tea with Gadaffi... Fucking hilarious (if you're not one of the victims' family members)
He then dropped his next appeal so he could take tea with Gadaffi... Fucking hilarious (if you're not one of the victims' family members)
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Well if the picking brocken glass out of one's food is accurate then that is patently wrong. Prison should be about loss of freedom not loss of personal safety.
I just think its about the simplicity of words..
27 years should mean 27 years
life should mean life ..
What is the difference between al-Megrahi getting prostate cancer and Myra Hindley or Ian Bradey or Ian Huntley or Rosa West dying of old age.
At the end of our lives, something usually gets us, its rarely called old age these days because we are so developed at diagnosing illness.
Were Myra Hindley or Rose West to get an illness, I can't see them being released on compassionate grounds.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Not by a jury, not in open court.
Did you look at the assessment of the evidence Paul Foot? It's cringingly embarrassing. How about the documents the CIA withheld at his 'trial'?
Imo, Lockerbie really had to be an Iranian respose to Flight 655/USS Vincennes case. Nothing to do with this man or Libya - in that I agree with Jim Swire, who is no one's fool.
OK, so why do you think he's been freed?
Pragmatically. Leaving aside 'compassion' (because i think we all know thats utter bullshit)
It's not bullshit though - there's a provision in Scottish law that allows terminally ill prisoners to apply for release if they have less than three months to live. They didn't just make it up for him specially.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Because they knew he was a pasty all along, he didn't do it all off his own back even if you do believe the guilty verdict.
So why have they turned down 9 other cases and freed the biggest mass murderer in british history?
He was partially responsible... but of course he wasn't the only one involved. Gadaffi himself was undoubtedly involved. It would be naive to assume money and influence wasn't involved in this decision.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I am glad to see that the vote has indicated a preference to releasing the man. The rest of you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
There is considerable doubt as to his guilt.
4 courts of law disagree
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Short version:
US and British governments want to avoid the embarrassment of an appeal which would actually look at the evidence
US and British oil companies want the oil contracts
Salmond looks a humanitarian hero standing up to the USA
Gaddafi secures the release of the hero
The NYT tries to remain polite but explains some of the realpolitik:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/world/europe/22lockerbie.html?hpw
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I doubt how most of the world see what happened that way.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Don't ask me 
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
At a guess because the other 9 didn't meet the requirements of the release clause.
Good on the Scottish government in telling the Yanks to go suck one.
Jesus. you should run for parliament..
Your inferiority complex alone is the reason for releasing this guy then?
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Yes, an interesting read.
I don't know where you get that figure from. The courts he has been in front of have been presented with some of the most tainted evidence in Britisih criminal history (and that's saying something). On top of that he was denied access to vital evidence that throws a serious degree of doubt on his conviction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelbaset_Ali_Mohmed_Al_Megrahi
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1243
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foc...relatives_no_nearer_finding_out_the_truth.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5769572.ece
The review of his case found six areas where his conviction could have been deemed unsafe, hence the referral for the 2nd appeal.
Maybe we should have used the American 'punishment' for destroying an innocent airliner - promotion and a medal?
Because there's no doubt over Hindley's, Brady's, Huntley's or West's convictions.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
So you're saying you know the ins and outs of the other early release appeals, do you? Please, don't be shy, tell the world about this fantastic conspiracy theory.
I don't know the details, no. But I suspect the other people appealing wouldn't be blinged up, flying by private jet to take tea with the great and the good (who also happen to have a certain amount of oil under their control).
Therein lies the difference. I'd love to think there was any other reason. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by nature. But this one stinks.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Life very rarely means life in this country. For Megrahi his sentence basically has meant life, give or take a few months. I think justice was done.
Most other people aren't in the middle of a political fuss involving 3 countries.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
More than done. Wonder who the US will bomb in revenge.
This guy helped killed 270 innocent people. And now he's allowed to spend ramadan with his family. That's justice?
Bonkers.
It doesn't matter if he did it or not!!
The UK just got loads of oil and gas!!!!
Justice http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8215554.stm
The UK just got loads of oil and gas!!!!
Justice
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