ps thanks for your perspectives on the illegals conundrum last evening.
Posted on 08/21/2010 12:58:38 PM PDT by markomalley
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Scotland's justice secretary says he is ready to meet with members of the U.S. Senate and defend the decision to release a Libyan terrorist.
Kenny MacAskil said the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was made appropriately and given due process -- despite the fact that the cancer-stricken airliner bomber is still alive nearly a year after he was released with a prognosis of dying within three months.
Megrahi was sent back to Libya last year after serving nearly 10 years for the bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103, which crashed in Scotland and killed 270 people, including 189 Americans.
Scottish officials said the release was made on humanitarian grounds because Megrahi was supposedly at death's door. Critics have since raised questions about the role that access to Libyan oil reserves may have played in the matter.
A group of U.S. senators have condemned the release and are demanding access to medical records to find out how accurate the diagnosis was.
MacAskil told the BBC he was willing to meet with the U.S. lawmakers but reiterated that the decision to release Megrahi was one reserved for the Scottish government.
The United States, meanwhile, is warning Libya not to throw any official celebrations to mark the 1-year anniversary of Megrahi's release. The New York Daily News said Saturday that official statements to that effect were issued Friday by the British government and the U.S. Department of State.
Lockerbie hearing postponed after several witnesses ‘stonewalled’
Don't ask, don't tell.
ps thanks for your perspectives on the illegals conundrum last evening.
Didn’t I read somewhere that the Dumbama Administration approved the release?
Scotland's justice secretary says he is ready to meet with members of the U.S. Senate and defend the decision to release a Libyan terrorist.
I have a better idea, Mr MacAskil...meet with the family members of those killed on the flight and defend your decision with them. But I suspect you are far too cowardly for that.
I saw a crowd of peolple cheering this man when he exited the plane. Guess what religion they were. A murderer, they were cheering. Boiled my blood.
Agreed-They should change their name to (Used To Be)Great Britain.
Let me see if I get this:
UK allows an Islamic Terrorist to be free because of a phony disgnosis of cancer...the same Islamic Terrorist that killed hundreds of people
Yet, the same UK bans Michael Savage for his “speech”. Whatever you think of Savage....there is no reason for a nation to ban him, unless the nation supports Islamic Terrorism
The UK is not our ally...lets put them on the Terrorist Watch list
Scottish officials said the release was made on humanitarian grounds because Megrahi was supposedly at death's door.Even if it was true, that he was dying... can someone please explain to me how it is "humanitarian" to let a convicted murderer out early rather than let him die in prison. Isn't that what "life" means?
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