"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the
Americans are not your enemy," - President Obama
Posted on 08/20/2009 6:35:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Over ferocious American objections, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie jet bombing, flew home to a jubilant welcome in Libya on Thursday night after the Scottish government ordered his release on compassionate grounds.
Mr. Megrahi,57, a former Libyan intelligence agent, had served 8 years of a 27-year minimum sentence on charges of murdering 270people in Britain’s worst terrorist episode.
Widely forecast in British news reports over the past week, his release angered many Americans whose relatives died in the bombing, leaving them to confront anew the agony and anguish of loss and to question the notion of justice that allowed a man convicted of murderous acts, which he always denied, to walk free.
“Compassionate release on the face of it is insane for a convicted mass murderer,” said Susan Cohen, of Cape May Court House, N.J., whose 20-year-old daughter, Theodora, died when a bomb smuggled onto Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. “For the families we have this thing that is so horrible to live with anyway, and now we have to live with this.”
A “tiny slice of justice,” she said, had been lost.
Ignoring American demands that Mr. Megrahi not be celebrated as a hero returning to his homeland, hundreds of young Libyans were bused to the military airport in Tripoli to welcome him home, cheering and waving Libyan and Scottish flags as he sped off in a convoy of white vehicles.
On the flight from Scotland, Mr. Megrahi was accompanied by Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, stamping an official imprimatur on his release and reinforcing the official Libyan view that Mr. Megrahi was a scapegoat used by the West to reinforce its depiction of Libya as a pariah state.
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Obama let him go back to the adulation of his terrorist buddies.
Yep.
Who freed Meghari?
Hussein Obama!
He served the time that Qhaddafi should have served, and returns to a welcome that reveals everything the West needs to know about many muslims in the world today. Celebration of a mass murderer? Beyond depravity.
He’s no doubt already been fitted for his bomb vest.
Has he been read his Miranda Rights, yet? /s
I’m sorry....but DEATH is too lenient at punishment for this slime bag.
Bomb vest? He better wear it on his head.
I don't believe that the Scots could have acted without the full consent of BHO.
"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the
Americans are not your enemy," - President Obama
Under Obama America supports its enemies because there is no such thing as a terrorist.
Mr Obama, why not put them in the healthcare reform plan. It won’t cost anything, right?
And they will be convinced we are their friends, right?
"Over ferocious American objections"...
Don't make me laugh. The State Department and Obama didn't say boo about this...
object?
ROFL
obama probably prayed to mecca with him before he got on the plane!
They were waving the Scottish flag when the murderer landed in Libya. Now, darn it!
Do you think Her Majesty would get too ticked off if we invaded Scotland? Probably. But I’ll tell ya this. I’ve had my last sip of Scotch whiskey, ever.
And if he actually IS dying from cancer, I’d bet dollars to doggie doo that he won’t die peacefully in his bed. He will perform one last act of terrorism and go out as a suicide/homicide bomber somewhere..........unless he is put under house arrest in his home country......the chances of which are SLIM and NONE.........and SLIM just rode out of town......so what does that leave!
Is that Obama with Carlos Santana ?
In another life, I worked for Pan Am. This is not good.
And the message is: "Do it over European airspace, because they don't have death penalty, thanks be to Allah."
But they frowned upon it strenuously!
‘Someone’ should have dropped a Daisey Cutter on the airport when he landed... I’m sure there wasn’t ‘an innocent’ within miles.
also today would have been a good day to make a ‘coordinates mistake’ and have a cruise missle land on the Scottish turds that released him.
Do you think we Scots like this?.
Most Scots are disgusted and appalled that our name is now dirt. Instead of the great nation we always have been.
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Only if they come from oil rich countries. From where does the UK get most of its oil? Follow the money.
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