http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...f_Release_Of_Abdelbaset_Ali_Mohmed_Al_Megrahi

 

Talk is cheap. And that's all anyone seems to be doing about this travesty.

 

I suppose, since he's apparently healthy, we could call him back and actually go through with the retrial that was abandoned.

We certainly can't just send him back to jail, since the conviction was ruled unsafe more than three years ago.

 

Thinking about it, though, since it's fairly well known that the reason for giving him compassionate release in the first place was so the appeals evidence wouldn't have to be heard ... maybe that wouldn't be for the best. The people who want to hang him upside-down by his bollocks would look awfully stupid if that evidence ever came to light and proved his innocence.

 

I'm not particularly concerned with his innocence or guilt, frankly. I'm interested in what machinations occurred to get him released, who was responsible for that and why. I'm interested in the possible complicity of BP and the British government. Those are valid subjects of an investigation.

But I'm not holding my breath.

 

Put out a contract with Blackwater...they are just down the street....

 

Well on this side of the pond, that's fairly well known.

And neither of those were part of it. You can stop concerning yourself.

 

Why am I not convinced?

 

Because you're goddam stupid? Because you're gullible enough to believe what the American press is feeding you? Or because you're too lazy to get off your ass and look into it for yourself?

Choose whichever answer suits. The relatives of the deceased all know what was going on, and they aren't whinging about BP.

 

Come to think of it...I use to know a family whose college age son was on that plane and knowing them I am surprised he is still alive.......

 

No, I'm not gullible enough to believe what the American press is feeding me. Nor am I gullible enough to believe what YOU are feeding me. So take your insults and stick them up your arse.

These relatives of the deceased appear to have a few unanswered questions.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/15/ap/world/main6774394.shtml

 

Maybe, like so many of the other relatives of the deceased, they could smell the stinking rats even from 6,000 miles away. Maybe they read about al-Megrahi applying to have his own appeal cancelled, telling the appeal court that he could only get a compassionate release if he agreed to drop the appeal, and drew their own conclusions.

Maybe they actually saw some of the evidence which convinced the appeals board to declare his conviction unsafe, but which will never now become public knowledge because the appeal never happened.

I only know of one such "relative of the deceased" who actually attended the original trial. He came away convinced that al-Megrahi had nothing to do with the attack. Both he, and many others in Scotland, were bitterly disappointed that the appeal never went through because they wanted that evidence heard and the real villains brought to light.

 

They're not insults. They're about the only three possible reasons you could fail to be aware of what was going on.

 

so you are saying BP blew up the plane?

 

What is all this gibberish about BP?

We don't know who blew up the plane. It probably was Libyans. We're fairly confident it wasn't al-Megrahi, because why else would the Scottish government have been so desperate to get that appeal shut down? As things now stand, he remains convicted.

 

You're right, how could I possibly take being called...what was it? Oh yes...."goddam stupid" as an insult?

Believe it or not, not everyone considers this case to be closed. It's evident from your posts that you don't think it's closed either. You just appear to harbor different doubts than I do, and you adhere to a different conspiracy theory than the ones I speculated about. So why resort to insulting me?

 

Well wasn't that guy a Libyan working for BP.....

 

Well, gee whiz, when BP has admitted to advocating for a pending oil deal involving the British and Libyan governments just prior to the release, don't you think that's a matter worthy of exploration? I haven't read anything that exonerates BP, beyond their own denials.

 

Which guy? The only one who ever got convicted was al-Megrahi, whose conviction was ruled unsafe over three years ago. (Remember I said that?)

We don't even have a clue who was responsible. We might have had, if we could have seen the evidence that exonerated al-Megrahi - but the appeal was shut down and he was let out on compassionate grounds.

 

Given that we have an open, public, and well-known agreement with Libya to release prisoners in exchange for oil rights, and Megrahi could quite easily have been included in it, frankly no. And neither would anybody else who was bothering to keep up with the case.