Posted on 02/23/2011 10:06:41 PM PST by artichokegrower
Italy - President Obama and Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy shook hands Thursday, infuriating families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 by Libyan intelligence agents.
The grip-and-grin was caught on camera during the G-8 summit of world leaders in Italy. Khadafy was there as head of the African Union.
The encounter came as families who lost loved ones aboard the doomed plane met with officials in Washington and the British Consulate in Manhattan to protest the potential release of the lone terrorist convicted in the bombing.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi is jailed in Scotland. But he has prostate cancer and could be turned over to Khadafy.
“This thing with Obama happened on the same day that we spilled our guts to his own administration that this killer should not be released! I’m disgusted and disappointed. Obama sent the wrong message,” said Stephanie Bernstein, 58, of Bethesda, Md., who lost her husband, Michael, 36, a lawyer who hunted Nazis for the Justice Department.
“I just hope this was a superficial ‘hello and goodbye,’ and not a show of support for a bad man who should have been taken out years ago,” said Jack Flynn, 71, of Montville, N.J., who lost his son John Patrick, a 21-year-old student at Colgate.
“It will be a real horror show now if they release Megrahi,” added Flynn, who broke down in a conversation with the Daily News. Both Bernstein and Flynn voted for Obama.
Although Libya is no longer on the State Department list of terrorist nations, Khadafy is still hated for protecting Megrahi.
Flight 103, a Boeing 747, was en route from London’s Heathrow Airport to JFK when it blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland. The terrorist bombing killed all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground.
Khadafy refused to turn over the suspects for a decade, worsening relations between Washington and Tripoli.
In 1986, after Libyan agents killed two U.S. servicemen in a bombing at a West Berlin disco, President Ronald Reagan ordered air strikes against Libya, denouncing “this mad dog of the Middle East.”
Shortly before the handshake, White House National Security Council member Denis McDonough said Obama would greet any leader who approached him.
“I don’t think he’s given much consideration to whose hand he’ll shake or whose hand he’ll not shake,” McDonough said.
Khadafy attempted an image makeover in 2003 when he agreed to pay $2.7 billion to the families of the 270 victims and dismantled his nuclear weapons. President George W. Bush took Libya off the list of terrorist
Two evil bastards.
Hussein Obama has been cozying up with Islamofascists, terrorists, black nationalists, and communists his entire life.
Obozo never met a terrorist he didn’t like.
They all have the same goal...destroy America.
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
A picture snapped at some meeting doesn’t really mean much. Of course, Obama generally supports Khaddafi’s regime.
Let’s hope this photo re-circulates during the 2012 elections.
Just to be clear; Published Saturday July 10, 2009.
I was, for a moment, trying to figure out how I missed Zero leaving the country for Italy. Clearly, Caliphate building takes some time to plan and implement. Why do I see, in my mind, these two embracing and flashing victory signs at their next encounter ?#? There certainly is evil at work.
“Let’s hope this photo re-circulates during the 2012 elections.”
YES!!!!!
Kadaffy looks like an overweight old lady in drag;)
Look at 0bama’s face. His narcissism is showing. He probably didn’t know a thing about Gadaffi. He just figured he was meeting another brother.
YES! Before and during the 2012 elections.
Thanks for this 'blast from the past', artichokegrower.
(Article is dated July 10, 2009)
Look at Kadaffys face: ‘Hey, I’ve got a friend! The evil Bush is gone!”
The grip-and-grin was caught on camera during the G-8 summit of world leaders in Italy. Khadafy was there as head of the African Union.
The encounter came as families who lost loved ones aboard the doomed plane met with officials in Washington and the British Consulate in Manhattan to protest the potential release of the lone terrorist convicted in the bombing.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi is jailed in Scotland. But he has prostate cancer and could be turned over to Khadafy.
“This thing with Obama happened on the same day that we spilled our guts to his own administration that this killer should not be released! I’m disgusted and disappointed. Obama sent the wrong message,”
Look on the bright side; he didn’t bow.
LOL!
The embassy cables leaks revealed that the state department warned Obama that Berlusconi might use the G8 summit to lobby him to meet with the socialist terrorist Khaddafi.
Go on youtube. Its more than just a handshake.
"Good job, but you did not murder enough Americans.
Watch me."
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