About the Lockerbie Bomber’s Release . . . .
Well it looks like it might not have been some kind of under-the-table commercial oil deal that caused the folks in Scotland to suddenly become “kinder, gentler” jailers and opt to release the Pan Am 270 bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, after all. Recent news report indicate multiple deals may have been involved – including one for arms.
The British government, of course, still contends there was no quid pro quo regarding al-Megrahi’s release.
Yeah, right. Sounds more like “that’s our story and we’re sticking to it” to me.
Hell, I don’t know of too many people who ever bought the “compassionate grounds” story as the real reason for al-Megrahi’s release in the first place. You’d think the governments of Great Britain and Scotland would have figured out by now that everyone with a working brain knows the score already.
Whatever.
Category: Foreign Policy, Terror War
Just when you thought this government was the only First World power to be corrupt, obtuse, condescending, while at the same time pandering to her enemies….
Nice to know we’re not alone in that department, I guess.
Nothing is what it appears to be anymore. And if there ever were unicorns…their heads are hanging on someone’s wall now.
Or they’re here, PNag:
http://theawesomer.com/photos/2010/05/051710_Canned_Unicorn_Meat_1.jpg
Ewwwwww……
A purported ally turns out to be a self-serving realpolitik-al bunch of cycnical backstabbers… I am shocked, shocked! at how well they have learned from us.
Proving once again that justice (whatever that means today) is a fleeting vision that changes when the pricing is adjusted.
270 dead people mean nothing if there’s a profit for a defense contractor in the humanitarian release of their murderer.
@6 – VOV, you left out all the people who lost their jobs when PanAm was sued into bankruptcy and went out of business, not to mention the increasing security at airports after Lockerbie.
I know that security then pales by comparison with security now, but you know what I mean.
This is also why, when you catch one, that he resists and attempts to escape and you shoot him. Repeatedly.
@8 Or when they hang themselves in their cell, just remember to remove the handcuffs before it’s reported….
When I think of Scotland, I think of Fat Bastard. I also think cheap. And Yard. I do not think of much else. Oh, Scotland the Brave is a good tune.
@10 LMAO…Fat Bastard…which is what they are for releasing someone who has had all this time to devise in his little mind, all he will do for retribution. Thank you to our “Allies?”. We will hopefully remember what you did for us. But Obama probably already has a speech to show we are in accord with our “Allies?”. The little nation across the pond who exists because we fought two wars to keep them from speaking German has let their country become overrun with Muslims. So, like getting what you vote for, you live with what you let in your borders. I still think, if not for us they would be praying five times a day to Allah at Number 10 Downey.
The responsible politicians are from the Labour and Scottish National Party both of which are self confessedly socialist, which should tell you all you need to know about them. Frankly I am not even slightly surprised by this revelation it is merely another of the sociopathic deeds of Tony Blair.
I won’t even bother to rebut the anti-British and anti-Scots drivel above. People from a country whose head of state is Barack Obama are in absolutely no position to criticise.
Why do you expect loyalty from us when you show us none?
Ken…WE? How about the idiots inside the Beltway?
Your issue is with them, not us.
“People from a country whose head of state is Barack Obama are in absolutely no position to criticise.” Well, that’s something I can agree with. Nevertheless, when I hear Scotland, I still think of Fat Bastard, Kenneth.
Next, we’ll be entertained by a leak discussing HAARP. Giving Alex Jones the benefit of the doubt is nauseating.