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2009-08-20 Britain
Lockerbie bomber’s private jet to freedom courtesy of Gaddafi
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Posted by tipper 2009-08-20 08:23|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Hopefully an aging Ilyushin with an intoxicated crew.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-20 09:32||   2009-08-20 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Disgusting.

If there were any justice, someone would put a bomb on the flight.
Posted by Bulldog 2009-08-20 11:42||   2009-08-20 11:42|| Front Page Top

#3 BAH! When did the descendents of William Wallace become such pussies?
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-08-20 11:55||   2009-08-20 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Gotta love some of the comments below the article about compassion. Geeze.
Posted by Jefferson 2009-08-20 12:08||   2009-08-20 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you Holder and Reno:

"The U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder, was in fact deputy attorney general to Janet Reno at the time of the pre-trial negotiations. He was adamant that assurances had been given to the U.S. government that any person convicted would serve his sentence in Scotland."
Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-20 12:13||   2009-08-20 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 He was adamant that assurances had been given to the U.S. government that any person convicted would serve his sentence in Scotland.

So... the word of Scotland is not worth a wooden nickel!


Posted by 3dc 2009-08-20 12:49||   2009-08-20 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 ...Anyone want to lay bets on when his miraculous recovery is announced?...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-08-20 13:14||   2009-08-20 13:14|| Front Page Top

#8 seen on the BBC website:
Let's see, the British government are willing to hand over a British man to the Americans with the chance of him serving 60 years in prison, for hacking. On the other hand, a man found guilty of mass murder is let out after a few years to home to die. The difference is one is Moslem and the other isn't and guess who is shown mercy by this craven government.

Jeff, London
Posted by 3dc 2009-08-20 13:29||   2009-08-20 13:29|| Front Page Top

#9 I just saw his arrival on Fox. He did get the hero's welcome back in Libya (the one the Scots were promised wouldn't happen).
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-08-20 16:32||   2009-08-20 16:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Always follow the money:
http://tinyurl.com/nnls7d


Tony Blair has been accused of agreeing a 'blood money' deal involving the Lockerbie bomber with Colonel Gaddafi just hours before BP unveiled a £500million oil contract.

The then Prime Minister laid the foundations for the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi during a meeting with the Libyan leader in a desert tent two years ago.

The pair thrashed out a controversial prisoner transfer deal just before BP chairman Peter Sutherland announced the firm was investing $900million - about £545million - to search for oil in Libya. If the firm strikes rich, it could be worth £13billion.
Posted by Maggie Ebbinesh6913 2009-08-20 16:59||   2009-08-20 16:59|| Front Page Top

#11 What a disgrace, ZANU-Labour are saying it is a matter of devolution, nothing to do with them. I feel for my Scottish friends, hung out to dry.
Posted by rhodesiafever">rhodesiafever  2009-08-20 20:07||   2009-08-20 20:07|| Front Page Top

#12 I spent awhile on bbc's letters discussion today....
I heard all sorts of whining about the Iranian Airbus shot down.... no mention of the US Captain murdered in cold blood recently -- Iran?
I heard all sorts of NorAid bullshit. Yes... maybe Kennedy and the IRA supporters should have been dumped into Whitehall..

BUT... I can't help thinking FUCK EUROPE and it's Worldview.
Posted by 3dc 2009-08-20 21:47||   2009-08-20 21:47|| Front Page Top

#13 It's not to late for Fortress USA.
Posted by 3dc 2009-08-20 21:48||   2009-08-20 21:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Over at Rand Simburg's site, Transterrestrial Musings, he says it as well as I could:
Warm Welcome

What does it say when someone who engineered the murder of hundreds of innocent civilians in an American airliner is given one in Libya?

What it says to me is that we, and the West (even if we and they don’t recognize it) are in a de facto war with that nation. Of course, that’s really been the case for over two-hundred years — it’s just been a prolonged (and often faked) truce.

From the halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli...
Posted by SteveS 2009-08-20 21:50||   2009-08-20 21:50|| Front Page Top

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