The Left cannot fathom the concept of the United States undertaking military action to safeguard the freeflow of oil at market prices, but clearly it has no problem with the release of a jihadist who murdered 270 innocent people in order to facilitate an oil deal between Great Britain and Libya.
The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.
Gordon Brown’s government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards.
The letters were sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who has been widely criticised for taking the formal decision to permit Megrahi’s release.
The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests.
With little official criticism from the United States, other than the predictable expressions of disappointment, it’s apparent that the lives of those 270 people lost in the bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988 were worth the British securing an oil deal with Libya.
The decision to release Megrahi was made in London, not in Scotland.
Despicable appeasing cowards. Just as bad are the Americans, from the President of the United States on down who refuse to condemn this cowardly action.
This is an even bigger insult to the families of those who died than the hero’s welcome this animal received in Libya or allowing Libyan strongman Moammar Khadaffy-Duck to pitch a tent in New Jersey and share a table with the POTUS.
I just pray he doesn’t harm any more people.
Well, what do they want from us…sympathy? He caused so many people to die…well, we’ll give him our “sorries” but not for what he did.