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

[andymays]

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

Excerpt:

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.

[Native Texan III]

It is surprising how many of these big events in our history have yet another close and murky connection with foreign oil extraction, the CIA and possibly Government double dealing and conspiracy. All at the people's expense and grief.

All the innuendo (Cameron offering his ‘violent agreement’ with Obama on the wrongness of the release ) ducks the only question of ANY relevance or importance: namely the US and UK governments' apparent joint conspiracy to pervert the court of justice. The farcical trial in the Netherlands resulted in a likely innocent man being framed and jailed. To not even mention the elephant in the room - which dominates and underpins Al-Megrahi's 2009 release (he would likely be found innocent on appeal) - takes some doing.
Referring to Al-Megrahi simplistically as the "convicted Lockerbie bombing" is unacceptable and as reprehensible as referring to Nelson Mandela or Paddy Hill as "convicted terrorists" while they were in prison.