Posted on 09/02/2009 8:00:16 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Britain was accused yesterday of 'bare-faced lies' over the Lockerbie bomber's release which will damage its special relationship with the US for years.
Gordon Brown faced a backlash at home and abroad after it was confirmed that the Libyans had been told privately that he did not want Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to die in jail.
And the Foreign Office was accused of tearing up a 'cast-iron' promise given to the Americans and the United Nations a decade ago that the terrorist - released last month on compassionate grounds - would stay behind bars in Scotland.
Some senior Labour figures are in despair at the Prime Minister's handling of the affair, and there was ill-disguised fury in the US, where there were claims that the Obama administration had been given only ten minutes' notice of the decision to release Megrahi.
Professor Robert Black QC, the lawyer who was the architect of the Lockerbie trial, expressed astonishment at the revelation that ministers told their Scottish counterparts no 'definitive commitment' had been given to the US about Megrahi.
In fact, Britain and the US wrote a joint letter to the United Nations in 1998 ahead of his trial stating that if found guilty, the accused 'will serve their sentence in the UK'.
Professor Black, who advised the British government on setting up the jury-less trial in the Netherlands which convicted Megrahi in 2001, told the Daily Mail: 'There can be absolutely no doubt that an undertaking was given that anyone convicted in the Lockerbie case would serve his sentence in Britain.
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Propaganda to cover the fact that Obama was o.k. with it...
The zero would of gladly eaten Ramadan with the man.
Murdering Islamic terrorist airplane bomber goes free in Scotland.
American conservative talk radio host Michael Savage banned in Britain.
Things are bad in Londonistan and throughout Eurabia. Upside down.
Fine by me.
“My name is Barack Obama, and I approve of this release.”
Scot free.
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