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Title: White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi (G*d Damned fucking liar Obama)
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The Australian
URL Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new ... e6frg6so-1225896741041#content
Published: Jul 27, 2010
Author: Jason Allardyce and Tony Allen-Mills
Post Date: 2010-07-27 16:01:55 by Nebuchadnezzar
Keywords: None
Views: 11616
Comments: 22
White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi * Jason Allardyce and Tony Allen-Mills * From: The Australian * July 26, 2010 12:00AM 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. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. Related Coverage * US denies double talk on Megrahi The Australian, 6 hours ago * Scotland shuns Lockerbie probe The Australian, 4 days ago * Lockerbie: Blair asked to explain Herald Sun, 4 days ago * 'Secret deal' freed Lockerbie bomber Herald Sun, 5 days ago * Lockerbie: UK Labour to be exposed The Australian, 9 days ago End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. 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. In the letter, sent on August 12 last year to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and justice officials, Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime. The note added: "Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose." Mr LeBaron added that freeing the bomber and making him live in Scotland "would mitigate a number of the strong concerns we have expressed with regard to Megrahi's release". The US administration lobbied the Scottish government more strongly against sending Megrahi home, under a prisoner transfer agreement signed by the British and Libyan governments, in a deal now known to have been linked to a pound stg. 550 million oil contract for BP. It claimed this would flout a decade-old agreement between Britain and the US that anyone convicted of the bombing would serve their sentence in a Scottish prison. Megrahi was released by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill on the grounds that he had three months to live, making his sentence effectively spent. The US Senate foreign relations committee launched a probe after The Sunday Times revealed this month that Megrahi's doctors thought he could live for another decade. A source close to the Senate inquiry said: "The (LeBaron) letter is embarrassing for the US because it shows they were much less opposed to compassionate release than prisoner transfer." Last week, a succession of British politicians - including Mr MacAskill, Mr Salmond and former justice secretary Jack Straw - delivered a diplomatic snub to the senators by refusing to fly across the Atlantic to answer questions at the Senate's hearing on Thursday (US time) about their role in Megrahi's release. Despite the controversy over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Megrahi's release, it emerged over the weekend that BP is planning deep-water drilling off Libya. And BP boss Tony Hayward is poised to quit this week when the company announces its half-year results, London's Sunday Telegraph reported. The Sunday Times, AFP
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#1. To: All (#0)
Levin discusses the lying cabal that makes up the White House over the bald-faced lies over the release of the Lockerbie MASS MURDER.
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
Words. Mere words. They still gave a thumbs up to "compasionate release." I guess being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door GO65.
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
That's a good one. :)
There is that wonderful "transparency" at work again in the Obama administration.
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
My new tag-line.
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
versus the alternative to sending him to Libya where he would be released and treated like a hero. But again, here's the key: Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime
If you use that as your tag line you're too stupid to know the difference between "too" and "to" And you probably support the tea party.
Did you guys forget, btw, that the economic mess started before election day 2008?
Obama should be tried for treason. Capital punishment if found guilty.
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With Clinton's signing of NAFTA? The sucking sound that Perot warned us about?
And you probably support the tea party. The 2 statements are mutually exclusive of one another you shilling communist hack shitstack
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Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
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Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
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"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States,
#2. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#0)
#3. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#1)
Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime.
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#4. To: go65 (#3)
Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime.
#5. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#4)
I guess being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door GO65.
#6. To: go65 (#3)
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.
#7. To: A K A Stone (#5)
That's a good one. :)
#8. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#4)
They still gave a thumbs up to "compasionate release."
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#9. To: Nebuchadnezzar, A K A Stone (#7)
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#10. To: All (#9)
You broke it, you own it.
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#11. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#0)
Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
#12. To: go65 (#10)
Did you guys forget, btw, that the economic mess started before election day 2008?
#13. To: GOtahardonfora69sessionwithbarack, Nebuchadnezzar (#9)
you use that as your tag line you're too stupid to know the difference between "too" and "to"
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#15. To: go65 (#10)
Did you guys forget, btw, that the economic mess started before election day 2008?
#16. To: Mudboy Slim (#14)
#17. To: e_type_jag (#16)
"The Staples Singers "I'll take you there"
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#18. To: WhiteSands (#11)
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
#19. To: e_type_jag (#16)
(Edited)
Like that bass line, jag...don't think I've ever heard this song before now...
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#20. To: e_type_jag (#16)
http://gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=757.msg121612#msg121612
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
#21. To: Mudboy Slim (#19)
#22. To: e_type_jag, Murron (#21)
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
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