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Obama Administration: Lockerbie Bomber Should Be Reimprisoned

Saturday, August 21, 2010

There is no possible way that Scotland would release Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi (or ANYONE) if the US objected.

Not only because of the "special relationship" between the UK and the US, but because the vast majority of the victims were Americans, among them were a good number of US government officials (CIA and State Department).

Of the 270 victims, 190 were Americans, 43 were from the UK, Germany & Hungary had 4 citizens each. Canada, France, India, Ireland and Sweden had 3 each. Argentina & Italy had 2 each, and all the rest (Belgium, Bolivia, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Philippines, S. Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tobago and Trinidad) had 1 each.

The prosecution of this case was a joint effort (more than joint, more like a 'round robin'-international effort, with people like Nelson Mandela and the Dutch participating at different points), but resting mainly on the US, UK, and the Dutch. The trial was held at a US air force base.

There was NOTHING about this case that happened without the US signing off on. If the US didn't agree, it didn't happen.
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Obama Administration: Lockerbie Bomber Should Be Reimprisoned

That was the US position. The US did not support his release under any circumstances.

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That's NOT true.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-10754690

My judgment is well-informed. You have no idea what my "feelings" are about this administration, nor do they or would they matter with regard to this situation.

What I am is pretty d@mned irritated at 0'bots like you who look for irrelevancy after irrelevancy to distract people's attention from the fact that We The People can't get the transparency in our government that we were promised.
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Obama Administration: Lockerbie Bomber Should Be Reimprisoned

Friday, August 20, 2010

Thanks, but I don't need you to translate anything for me.

The US position should have been "We do not support release of Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi under any circumstances."

As soon as the US equivocates from that position, it's about business, pure and simple. In this case, the US and British government cowed to pressure by BP so that BP could win lucrative business contracts in Libya.
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Obama Administration: Lockerbie Bomber Should Be Reimprisoned

White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi

THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be "far preferable" to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as "half-hearted" and a sign it would be accepted.

The US has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds it would prevent future "frank and open communications" with other governments.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/white-house-backed-release-of-lockerbie-bomber-abdel-baset-al-megrahi/story-e6frg6so-1225896741041

Release the files, let's see the letter.
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U.S. Tells Israel That Iran Nuke 'Dash' Could Take A Year

You said, "Neoconservatives and most of the Iraq war advocates have dual citizenship" and I asked you "Who?"

You responded, "if you click the link I provided you would have learned who are those individual with dual citizenship are."

Nobody at that link who is or was a government official has dual citizenship.

Not Michael Chertoff, not Jane Harman, not Michael Mukasey, not Richard Perle, not Douglas Feith, not Paul Wolfowitz, not Larry Franklin, not Henry Kissinger, not Edward Luttwak, not Dov Zakheim, not any of them.
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Goldman Sachs Goes Nuclear, May Sell Uranium: Report

Like "clean coal", there is no such thing a "clean and safe" nuclear power.

No one has yet found a durable solution for storing nuclear waste, that remains highly radioactive for centuries.

France continues to deposit thousands of tons of highly radioactive waste into its nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague on the Normandy Atlantic coast, close to the English Channel.

Confirmation that radioactive brine has been leaking for two decades from a German underground deposit for nuclear waste is yet another blow to the idea that nuclear power can safely increase electricity generation and simultaneously reduce emissions.

Radioactive leaks from the nuclear waste deposit Asse II near Braunschweig in Lower Saxony, some 225 km southwest of Berlin, were first discovered in 1988. The state-owned Helmholtz Institute for Scientific Research, which operates the centre, officially admitted the leaks only Jun. 16, under pressure from the German press.
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