Posted on 08/21/2009 12:57:39 PM PDT by kellynla
"Four hundred parents lost a child, 46 parents lost their only child, 65 women were widowed, 11 men lost their wives, 140 [people] lost a parent, seven lost both parents."
-- Scottish prosecutor Colin Boyd at the 2001 trial of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi flew home Thursday to his wife and children in Libya. Scotland's justice secretary, Kenny Mac-Askill, freed al-Megrahi only eight years into his life sentence for murdering 270 people, 189 of them Americans. A flag-waving crowd greeted al-Megrahi when his Afriqiyah Airways jetliner landed at Tripoli. More warm welcomes may follow: When an al-Megrahi co-defendant was acquitted in 2001, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sacrificed a camel in his honor.
MacAskill's stated excuse for freeing al-Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, is compassion. That, regrettably, was a gift al-Megrahi's victims didn't receive two decades ago.
Pan American Flight 103, a Boeing 747 christened Clipper Maid of the Seas, was cruising at 31,000 feet on its Frankfurt-London- New York route. Detonation of a bomb concealed in a cassette player sent tornado-force winds roaring through the fuselage. A Scottish air traffic controller watched from Prestwick Airport below as the plane's image on his screen disintegrated into dozens of bright green squares. Debris would scatter over 845 square miles -- but most of the 259 passengers and crew survived the 46.5 seconds until impact. A large section of the fuselage, including the plane's wings and 200,000 pounds of aviation fuel, screamed at more than 500 m.p.h. into the market town of Lockerbie. The resulting fireball vaporized several homes -- plus most of the 11 victims on the ground -- then turned to burn cars passing on a motorway.
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Obama called MacAskill's invocation of a Scottish compassion statute "a mistake."
A "mistake?"...a "mistake?"...What the Scots did was OUTRAGEOUS! And just as Michelle Malkin said, this murderer should have been EXECUTED 21 years ago. PERIOD
"appeasement...reminds (terrorists) that... their enemies are weak."
EXACTLY!
GB PM Brown asked the Libyan’s to keep the reception low key.
We have nothing but craven leaders who sold their soul to the muslims.
Yea, well I've been saying for 8 years now,
one more terrorist attack in America and every muzzie swinging dick will have to pack up his koran and family and go back to whatever hellhole he originated from.
Our ancestors didn't risk life & limb to emigrate to this country just so a bunch of camel jockeys could come here, terrorize our women & children and make hamburger out of our families...as far as terrorist attacks in America are concerned, we abide by the “baseball rule”...”three strikes and you're outa here!” PERIOD
Bottom line: sooner or later we are gonna have to give the muzzies the jihad they so desperately want!
And it won't make a damn bit of difference who's in the Oval Office...chances are Hussein will be removed before 2012 anyway...a little matter of a Birth Certificate.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Scotland should be ashamed!
Not just murderer, MASS MURDERER. And now he is a celebrated terrorist.
8 years for deliberately plotting the deaths of 270 people.
England needs independence from the UK far more than the other constituent nations.
Ours is not the first generation to have to confront Islamic imperialism from Islamic supremacists.
This battle has waged for hundreds of years.
We are told that we must find alternative fuels to oil since we fund Islamic extremism with our purchases. The oil isn't evil, the tyrants are.
Some muslims claim that moderate muslims do not stand with the radicals and that the radicals don't practice "real" Islam. Fine. Then denounce them as deceivers and help to put them out of business. Rout them out of the mosques. Expose their organizations.
Islamist terrorists of the future must be laughing tears from their eyes. Paper Tiger? No — we’re* a Cuddly Kitten.
*the West, in their eyes
But did he say "Mother May I"?
After all, there were 40 UK victims murdered too, including 11 Lockerbie residents.
Cruise missles on Tripoli would be in order now. Where is Ronald Reagan when we need him?????????
Yea, well RR didn't have the balls to do what needed to be done after 220 Marines, 18 Sailors & 3 Soldiers were murdered in Beirut in 1983. But that's another subject for another thread.
Would you believe a Moonbat on the Herald web-site actually compared this animal going home to Bush going home to Texas after “murdering” people?
The Brits seemed to make more of a fuss about letting the ailing Ronald Biggs out of jail for stealing money than the Scots did over this evil mass murderer. Just goes to show what’s more important to some.
Mel
“And why is it if a prosecutor is Scottish he’s “Scottish” but if he’s English he’s “British?”
Scotland now has a parliment and control over their justice system (among other things). A Scottish prosecutor works for the Scottish government and is, therefore, Scottish.
An Englishman working for the “central” government in London is British since he represents the whole of Great Britian (or the UK), as opposed to an English government, which doesn’t exist.
Americans tend to refer to Britian as England in error and this also helps perpetuate the misunderstanding. In recent years the various parts of the United Kingdom have established their own parliments with limited soverignty and this also difficult for Americans to understand. The peoples of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are all British, and can be correctly referred to as such, but not the reverse.
What I have found over the years is that British people themselves love to argue over this topic and I’m sure someone will be along presently to correct me.
Agreed,,, I’m OUTRAGED !
Yes, and that's the problem! Independence for England!!!
“Yes, and that’s the problem! Independence for England!!!”
I think the English are silly in not kicking all Scottish MPs out of the central government (including Brown) now that Scotland has their own parliment. Scotland, in efect, gets double the representation.
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