FBI director outraged by Lockerbie bomber release (Obama on release: "highly objectionable"

AP ^ | 22 SEP 2009 | AP

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Your action," he wrote MacAskill, "makes a mockery of the grief of the families who lost their own on December 21, 1988. You could not have spent much time with the families, certainly not as much time as others involved in the investigation and prosecution."

He ended the Lockerbie letter with a frustrated question: "Where, I ask, is the justice?"

President Barack Obama on Friday called the elaborate homecoming in Libya for the freed bomber "highly objectionable."

[fallujah-nuker]

The Scots needed to sell more shortbread cookies.

Thanks for pointing that out, I was trying to think of what I could boycott from Scotland, but all I could think of was Scotch whiskey, but I don't drink anyway. The plane was bombed just before Christmas, we should not but Walkers cookies this year.

[353FMG]

Please don’t compare 0 with Reagan — instead compare him with those who came after him. Not even the Bushes should be compared with R.

I have often wondered what would have happened if Reagan had been president at 9/11/2001. But then again, I don’t think that 9/11 would have happened during Reagan’s watch.

[353FMG]

“Now it’s a mater of OBAMA....”

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You’re expecting too much with the Joker in the WH.

[Rick_Michael]

Because he has ‘compassion’ he releases someone that killed hundreds of Americans. I don’t care if he has cancer...so have many people in my family. If they had committed acts of murder I don’t think they would deserve ‘compassion’ in an early release.

what a dumb move on Obama’s part.

[Sister_T]

President Barack Obama on Friday called the elaborate homecoming in Libya for the freed bomber "highly objectionable."

This from the guy who wants to release the terrorists from Gitmo.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

/mark

[ElkGroveDan]

Please don’t compare 0 with Reagan

I didn't I CONTRASTED them. There's a big difference.

[bustinchops]

I really wonder if ostammer knew about this and/or gave it the okay. He couldn’t care less about those victims or their families. If there was something in it for him or the left, he’d be fine with it.

[BIG_CARBON_FOOT_PRINT]

I wonder what role Zero-Bama played in facilitating the release of one of his comrade-in-arms? I am just asking the question.

[Deb]

Hey! Thanks for the sweet note.

[Deb]

Hey! Thanks for the sweet note.

[Deb]

This morning it looks like the Scots are going to show actual backbone and call the idiot who did this on the carpet. But now Obama continues his traitorous presidency by betraying the CIA.

I hate these people so much.

[Winged Hussar]

As far as I know (not legal advice), the U.S. has extraterritorial laws that allow it to prosecute the murder of American citizens anywhere in the world.

If the foreign country has an extradition treaty with the U.S., this individual can be brought to justice peacefully. If he takes refuge in a country like Libya with no extradition treaty, I think our government should just have him killed; Israel has done this to terrorists outside its territory on numerous occasions. Libya has no rights that the United States has any duty to respect and, if it harbors terrorists who have murdered Americans, it must accept the consequences as far as I am concerned.

Even if Libya calls that murder, it is in no position to demand the extradition of, for example, the Predator drone operator and the people who give him his orders because it has no extradition treaty with the U.S. It cuts both ways.

If the U.S. wanted to risk personnel on the ground, it could kidnap this guy the way Israel kidnapped Adolf Eichmann, bring him to the U.S., put him on trial and, upon conviction, put him in that tiny Supermax prison cell for what is left of his useless life.

[mo]

Somebody needs to check MacAskill’s wallet...the one with Libyan gold dinar...that he keeps in Switzerland...

[Jonny foreigner]

As far as I know (not legal advice), the U.S. has extraterritorial laws that allow it to prosecute the murder of American citizens anywhere in the world.

If the foreign country has an extradition treaty with the U.S., this individual can be brought to justice peacefully. If he takes refuge in a country like Libya with no extradition treaty, I think our government should just have him killed; Israel has done this to terrorists outside its territory on numerous occasions...

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well there exists nothing like international laws that would allow the US to prosecute the murder of American citizens anywhere in the world. so if you do it (and this is a given fact that not only the US does something like that in this world it´s still illegal. but here comes the important part. You like every other country does this only when the hunted person is spotted in a country “you” have a very bad relation anyway (so it can´t get more worst) or to poor backward countries where you know even it became public no one will especially care because of that nor will it have serious consequences. there are as you said extradition treaty between different countries. but there for you need a total legal basis that they will hand the guy over. so as long this doesn´t exists there is not much you can do. yes you are correct for example the Israelis did this. there are still mossad agents rotting in a norwegian prison (setenced long ago for lifelong prison because of murder) because they did this and have been catched. (let alone the harm this did for the relations between “europe” and Israel). they haven´t tried something like this (or at least have not been catched) in europe again since then, guess why? so it´s not that simple. for example the US had to guarantee germany that one of the terrorists they catched (responsible for 9/11) can not be setenced to death (because it´s against the law in the EU to extradite some one who could face death penatlty) in a us court. Only after the US guaranteed this the germans handed the terrorist over. (they would have been forced to set him free if the US had not done this). Isn´t international politics fun? ;-)
greetings

[Winged Hussar]

Re: “for example the US had to guarantee germany that one of the terrorists they catched (responsible for 9/11) can not be setenced to death (because it´s against the law in the EU to extradite some one who could face death penatlty) in a us court. Only after the US guaranteed this the germans handed the terrorist over.”

I think most families of the victims would settle for this terrorist getting life without parole in a Supermax prison, especially if the prison sent them a photo of what the typical maximum security cell looks like.