Posted on 09/06/2009 10:10:38 AM PDT by fiodora
President Obama and the US Secretary of State fuelled a fierce American backlash against Britain, claiming Abdelbaset Al Megrahi should have been forced to serve out his jail sentence in Scotland – but a senior Whitehall aide said their reaction was ‘disingenuous’.
British officials claim Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return.
The officials say the Americans spoke out because they were taken aback by the row over Megrahi’s release, not because they did not know it was about to happen.
‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide.
‘We would never do anything about Lockerbie without discussing it with the US. It is disingenuous of them to act as though Megrahi’s return was out of the blue.
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It could be that Obama has backed off for precisely this reason. He hopes they don't backup this story with a official leak and has begged them not to.
Obama will learn that the game is not played that way. So I'm waiting for a nice juicy leak.
Hope you’re right. I’ve got some Lefties teed up to eat some crow.
Heck interest seems to have died here
One way or another...
Unfortunately nothing seems to stick for very long to the magic negro, the socialist-fascist-commie pig 0bozo. He’s black (well, 1/2 at least) and he’s a demoRAT, aka socialist-fascist-commie pig. Therefore the media gives him a pass on everything, and the average demoRAT vote will continue to vote for this commie pig no matter what. 0bozo could commit rape, incest & murder on national TV in front of 50 million people and the demoRATs would STILL vote for him. Unbelieveable!!! Lockerbie-gate will be a distant memory by the end of this week.
I have never bought into the fatal prostate cancer crap.
The cancer is of two types generally, one being more dangerous than the other but it's rarely fatal these days....(Could be the European medical care).
The fellow appeared to me to me ill, but I think someone may be pulling our collective finger as far as the lethality and/or the expected death date.
I hope the truth comes out soon. Or,,,,,,,he cash's in his chips.
Are you kidding? They probably will blame it on Cheney.
There, I fixed it.
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