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Did BP play a role in the release of a notorious terrorist? (Sen. Lautenberg and quid pro quo?)
Yahoo News ^ | 6/13/10 | Brett Michael Dykes

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blood4oil; bp; bp4terrorism; dnc4terrorism; dnctalkingpoints; drivebymedia; lautenberg; libya; lockerbie; lockerbiebomber; notorious; obama4terrorism; pravdamedia; release; terrorist

1 posted on 07/13/2010 12:11:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

And BP’s interest in this was what?


2 posted on 07/13/2010 12:15:50 PM PDT by edcoil (OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
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To: NormsRevenge
Maybe Frank should be talking to the UK parliment since it was The UK's decision.
3 posted on 07/13/2010 12:19:13 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: NormsRevenge

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..


4 posted on 07/13/2010 12:30:06 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: NormsRevenge

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????


5 posted on 07/13/2010 12:30:59 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: edcoil

‘And BP’s interest in this was what?”

$20 Billion


6 posted on 07/13/2010 12:48:24 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: edcoil
"And BP’s interest in this was what?"

"...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."

7 posted on 07/13/2010 1:36:07 PM PDT by Tenniel2 (Clarkson, Hammond, and May: the last three sane men in the British Isles.)
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To: edcoil
And BP’s interest in this was what?

Allegedly drilling rights in Libya.

8 posted on 07/13/2010 1:38:17 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: TexasCajun
Maybe Frank should be talking to the UK parliment since it was The UK's decision.

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>

9 posted on 07/13/2010 1:40:20 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

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.


10 posted on 07/13/2010 1:43:24 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Non-Sequitur

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.


11 posted on 07/13/2010 3:06:58 PM PDT by edcoil (OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
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