Posted on 07/13/2010 12:11:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A U.S. lawmaker is calling on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to investigate whether BP influenced the release of Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey wants to know whether a quid pro quo led to the 2009 decision by U.K. and Scottish lawmakers to set the Libyan terrorist free. Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison in 2001, but released last year when doctors said he had only three months to live before dying of cancer. A doctor now says he could live a decade, according to the Associated Press. The senator wants to know whether the bomber's release was connected to a BP plan to drill for oil off Libya, which the senator says could earn the company up to $20 billion.
A bomb aboard Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, killing 270 people, 189 of them American. The plane was headed from London's Heathrow Airport to New York's JFK International Airport.
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And BP’s interest in this was what?
OMG so if they can’t blame it on Bush, everything that’s Obama’s fault, they will blame it on BP...
Oh forget how deep in bed with BP Obama and the Democrats are...well, they think we will forget..
OMG so if they can’t blame it on Bush, everything that’s Obama’s fault, they will blame it on BP...
Oh, forget how deep in bed with BP, Obama and the Democrats are...well, they think we will forget..
Did BP really have that much influence on Obama, that Obama kept quiet about the release????
‘And BP’s interest in this was what?”
$20 Billion
"...The senator wants to know whether the bomber's release was connected to a BP plan to drill for oil off Libya, which the senator says could earn the company up to $20 billion."
Allegedly drilling rights in Libya.
Because after all the U.S. is the only country in the entire world where major corporations try to influence the legislature to take actions that aid their business goals. </sarcasm>
I would prefer Frank call in CITGO and ask about the 11 Helmrich & Payne drilling rigs Hugo Chavez stole last week after not paying for their service for many months.
A dem politician blaming BP wow big surprise.
BP did not need help for drilling in Libya.
Rule One. Dem’s always blame you for what they are doing.
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