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2009-08-21 Africa North
Lockerbie bomber home in Libya amid US anger
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Posted by Fred 2009-08-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 A victory celebration? gosh! Whoda thunk that wuz coming?
Posted by Frank G on the road">Frank G on the road  2009-08-21 00:04||   2009-08-21 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 What about compassion and justice for these people, Mr. MacAskill? It is too late for them. I went by Lockerbie on a stormy day in November of 1992 and paid my respects. I am so steamed today I cannot see straight. A pox on you and your house, Mr. MacAskill.

Lockerbie_disaster_memorial
Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-08-21 00:56||   2009-08-21 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 “We have said to Libyan officials quite clearly that he is not entitled to a hero's welcome,” said State Department spokesman PJ Crowley.

“We will be watching very carefully to see what they do upon his return and we have told them that this will be something that will potentially affect our future relations.”

In other words Uhbama will adopt the position and grab his ankles, all in the interest of "future relations'.
Posted by tipper 2009-08-21 02:52||   2009-08-21 02:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Because they sent him home, they don't have to pay for his cancer treatments. The National Health Service has run low on funds to treat actual British citizens and more or less law-abiding illegal aliens. Or am I being overly cynical?

I'm sure the majority of us Brits would prefer that the man had been executed swiftly and cheaply after being found guilty.
Posted by Bulldog 2009-08-21 04:43||   2009-08-21 04:43|| Front Page Top

#5 What the majority of Brits wants has no more to do with what HM's Gov't. does than what the majority of people want has to do with what the Zero does.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-08-21 06:53||   2009-08-21 06:53|| Front Page Top

#6 And that is especially true in Scotland, I suspect.
Posted by lotp 2009-08-21 07:18||   2009-08-21 07:18|| Front Page Top

#7 What the majority of Brits wants has no more to do with what HM's Gov't. does than what the majority of people want has to do with what the Zero does.

Mostly true, but in this case the decision was, we are told by the Labour Government in London, enmtirely the responsibility of the Scottish (self-styled) 'Government' , elected only by Scots. Brown et al could have forced the Scots' hand to keep him in, but it suited their purpose to publicly keep quiet over the issue, in the role of Pilate, and let the Scots take the flak. Brown and his gang are eyeing oil deals with Ghadaffi, and a also lot of their middle class supporters and activists are the perverted types who think that releasing a mass-murderer on medical grounds is a 'humanitarian gesture'.

I won't be buying Scottish for some time.
Posted by Bulldog 2009-08-21 07:19||   2009-08-21 07:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Kentucky and Tennessee Whiskey/Bourbon is cheaper than Scotch.... Now if those 2 states were to embargo the sale of Whiskey Barrels to Scotland ... things might get interesting...
Posted by 3dc 2009-08-21 08:45||   2009-08-21 08:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Alaska Paul is correct. One cannot visit that cemetary without it leaving a lasting memory as well as silent anger. Rest in peace "Tiny." You and your service are not forgotten
Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-21 09:48||   2009-08-21 09:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Boy and Girlcott Scotland...
Posted by hammerhead 2009-08-21 10:54||   2009-08-21 10:54|| Front Page Top

#11 The " Scottish Justice Minister " NEEDS A MAGNANIMOUS KICK UP THE ARSE.
Posted by Dave UK 2009-08-21 12:00||   2009-08-21 12:00|| Front Page Top

#12 I've long wondered why many Poms have such a disregard for Scotland. Now I know why.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-21 12:07||   2009-08-21 12:07|| Front Page Top

#13 I believe that mercy requires remorse as a prerequisite. I see no remorse here.
Posted by liberal hawk 2009-08-21 12:19||   2009-08-21 12:19|| Front Page Top

#14 I find it heartening, in a microscopic way, that at least President Barry didn't issue an abject apology to Scotland and Libya.
Posted by Don Vito Crolutle2068 2009-08-21 12:48||   2009-08-21 12:48|| Front Page Top

#15 3DC is right. The scotts would take note if we quit selling them our used barrels of Jack.
Posted by 49 Pan 2009-08-21 12:57||   2009-08-21 12:57|| Front Page Top

#16 I went through that whole boycott Scotch thing when the Brits banned Michael Savage. But then I read here about the Scottish sniper who took out a Taliban drug lord from over a mile away. Then I think about how our own fellow citizens elected Barack Obama. We're suffering from the same illness that they have. They're just a little further along.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-08-21 13:03||   2009-08-21 13:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Other than the usual US State Department tricks, there was nothing stopping the US Government indicting the bombers in US courts for murdering US citizens [as we have in other cases with overseas terrorism] and having extradition requests standing if and when the Scots decided to give him up. Our states to that with people being held by other states, just in case.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-21 13:23||   2009-08-21 13:23|| Front Page Top

#18 I'll boycott Scotch if you find me a producer who applauds that decision.

Megrahi has another "welcome" reserved for him in a few weeks or months.

Will be hotter, longer and not televised.

Did I mention much hotter?
Posted by European Conservative 2009-08-21 14:13||   2009-08-21 14:13|| Front Page Top

#19 there was nothing stopping the US Government indicting the bombers in US courts for murdering US citizens. Procopius2k.

Quite right. Nothing save Janet Reno and her number-II at the time, Mr. Erik Holder.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-21 14:24||   2009-08-21 14:24|| Front Page Top

#20 The parents of one of the victims are here in CT and have been on local news. They have that dazed look of those who have been mugged by reality Scottish compassion.
Posted by regular joe 2009-08-21 17:11||   2009-08-21 17:11|| Front Page Top

#21 I'm sure it has nothing to do with BP's $900 million contract with Libya. Pure coincidence. Nothing to see here, move along.
Posted by DMFD 2009-08-21 19:20||   2009-08-21 19:20|| Front Page Top

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