Posted on 08/30/2009 11:03:24 AM PDT by the scotsman
'JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al- Megrahi over fears Scotland would suffer a terrorist backlash if he died behind bars.
He believed Megrahi would have been seen as a MARTYR by Islamic extremists if he had been left to die in Greenock Prison.
And last night a source close to the Cabinet Secretary said: "Kenny feared the repercussions would have haunted Scotland for a generation and more.
"If Megrahi had died in a Scottish jail, we'd have seen burning Saltires across the Middle East."
MacAskill and SNP First Minister Alex Salmond are preparing to publish secret papers relating to the decision to send Megrahi - suffering from terminal prostate cancer - home to Libya on compassionate grounds.
They have pledged to release a raft of documents, including letters to the Foreign Office, and have urged the UK Government to do the same, in advance of a debate at Holyrood on Wednesday.'
(Excerpt) Read more at newsoftheworld.co.uk ...
‘Do MacAskill and Salmond forget so quickly the attitude of Scots to terrorism - we DO NOT PANDER to them. Indeed “we’ll set aboot ye”.
Could they not have looked at the Glasgow Airport attack and seen the true feelings of Scots by their response to John Smeaton’s actions? He was hailed a hero in our name for standing up and being counted in the face of terrorism, not for running away with his tail between his legs.’
Better to let the puss out now than to let it fester - but then that would not be PC.
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OH! OH THE HORROR!!!
*yawn*
So it is better to turn all of england over to the terrorists now, rather than suffer terrorists attacks on the future. Kick the Queen out of her home. I’m sure the terrorists want to use it for their base of European operations! They will give her a nice tent with a couple of camels, if she bows to them every day.
We better not imprison or stop any terrorist, because that just helps the terrorists, right?
Experience shows that weakness in the face of Muslim terrorism is much more likely to encourage it than fighting back.
Frankly, they are going to do these things anyway, for reasons of their own—having to do with the evil nature of Islam, a religion determined from the beginning to conquer and rule the world. But they prefer to do it first against weak targets, where it will succeed most easily.
No, they let him out of prison as part of an oil deal with Libya. The decision was made in London. Perfidious Albion strikes again.
Revealed: Future Oil Deals
The 25% of me that is Scottish is still 100% pissed off.
SHow terribly stupid of him. He actually believes the terrorists will save him for last.
And the 100% of me thats Scots is 100% pissed off.
As long as O is in the WH there won’t be a nation that fears the USA. They may laugh, perhaps.
Strangle claim made with curious timing.Today's Times of London is saying they've seen leaked documents from Downing Street that prove that it was London that told the Scots to release him in order to finalize a big oil deal with Libya.This story about "terrorism" is,I'll wager,just a smokescreen.
Shades of Guantanamo.
Another lie....the release was part of a future oil deal negotiated in London.
“He believed Megrahi would have been seen as a MARTYR by Islamic extremists if he had been left to die in Greenock Prison.”
I think the opposite is true.....for them, dying from anything less than trying to escape or resist or kill their captors is closer to shame, not martyrdom......the worst thing of all would have been for him to just wither away and go out with no fanfare
I don't know what percentage of Scot blood runs through my veins, but my ancestors came from Middlebie Parish, not far from Lockerbie. I may have even lost some distant cousins in the downing of Pan Am 103.
I am very pissed at what the Scottish government did with this.
If I had been asked, I would have voted to give him a tent, a camel and a camping site on the windward side of Unst, the northernmost Shetland Island. He would have had a month to prepare for the fall storms and then winter. The vision just sends a tingle down my leg.
They wouldn’t have had this mess if they had offed him in the first place...SSZ
The Spartan authorities had evidence that Pausanias the regent (the victor at the battle of Plataea against the Persians in 479 B.C.) was guilty of treason (medism) and were about to arrest him when he took refuge in the temple of Athena of the Brazen House. The Spartan ephors did not want to violate the sanctuary of the temple so they walled up the doors until he starved. When he was on the point of death, they removed him from the temple so that he wouldn't die in the temple and cause pollution.
The Scottish authorities could have waited until the Libyan terrorist had 24 hours or less to live and removed him to a hospice (in Scotland)--that way he wouldn't have died in prison, but he wouldn't have had a hero's welcome in Libya.
I'm waiting for the announcement that his cancer has miraculously gone into remission.
‘’’is “egg on face” a term used around the world??
Right. They are looking for a spin they hope will deflect the outrage ("we were just trying to protect the Scottish people from a terrorist attack"). Uh-huh.
So why imprison any terrorists then, if such actions might be "provocative"? Why bring them to justice at all?
B.S. Spin to cover up the Libyan oil smell of the whole business deal.
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