Downing Street powerless to force return of Lockerbie bomber

http://www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | 6:50PM BST 15 Aug 2011 | By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor

[Red Badger]

Downing Street has admitted that it is powerless to force the return of the Lockerbie bomber to Britain almost two years after the Libyan was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.

David Cameron's official spokesman said that there was "no mechanism" to return Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to Britain even if he was captured by Libyan rebels or American special forces.

The admission came amid some speculation that the bomber may be seized and passed to Nato forces during the ongoing conflict in Libya.

This weekend marks the second anniversary of the release of Megrahi who was freed from prison after a medical assessment that he only had a few months to live after being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. He was released after serving just eight years of a 27-year sentence for killing 270 people in the Lockerbie airline bombing.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister's spokesman was asked if the second anniversary would lead to a renewed push to return Megrahi to prison.

"I don't think there is any mechanism by which he can be brought back to the United Kingdom," he said.

[americanophile]

Is there some reason, since we’re currently bombing Libya, that this fellow can’t have an accident?

[americanophile]

Is there some reason, since we’re currently bombing Libya, that this fellow can’t have an accident?

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[Da Coyote]

Downing Street is apparently powerless to prevent a mugging outside their door.

This is most definitely NOT the UK that I got a superb graduate education in. Perhaps we should start a gun lend lease program for the poor unfortunate residents.

[Dogbert41]

I would assume that we only target ..... What the heck are we targeting anymore? Anyone? Bueller?

[Red Badger]

I’m sure if we knew where he was he would soon have an accident.
I read a couple of months ago that he was in the Sahara desert in some tiny village hiding out. I doubt he’s in Tripoli............

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Israelis could find, package and deliver him in a weekend.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Is there some reason, since we’re currently bombing Libya, that this fellow can’t have an accident?

I LIKE your thinking!

[TigersEye]

Why did you let him go in the first place? Because 0bama told you to?

[org.whodat]

Duh, sort of like asking a congress man to return a contribution, the british took the money, they are not giving it back.

[bgill]

Sorry, Scotland, but mulligans only work on the golf course.

[americanophile]

The country is in chaos. You could probably get someone to rat him out for a pack of cigarettes. How impotent is NATO? We can’t get one sick old man in a country we’re currently bombimg (for reasons we can’t recall).

[org.whodat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/6140801/Jack-Straw-admits-Lockerbie-bombers-release-was-linked-to-oil.html

[Oldexpat]

He could be hauled into Gitmo and tried as an enemy combatant.

[Tailback]

return the bombing favor and nail him with a JDAM. This isn’t rocket science here people.

(what would Ronald Reagan do?)

[TigersEye]

Yes, there was that too. But 0bungles did lobby for his release on the down low. The one thing they don't have is one good reason for letting him go.

Now they're whining that they can't get him back even while bombing Gaddafi and his forces. I suppose they somehow rationalize that bombing Gaddafi should make him more amenable to a deal. Is Cameroon vying with 0bambi for "Wimpiest World Leader" or something?

[GoldenPup]

Downing Street powerless to force return of Lockerbie bomber

You can bet your a$$ that if Margret Thatcher still ran the UK, something would be done about it. Instead, the pink panty pukes who run thing there now, just whine, wring their hands, and wet their pants. Disgusting, but Odumbo is the same.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Tony Blair let him go, and now Blair's conservative rival David Cameron is in office. Cameron has denounced the socialist Blair's evil deals with the socialist Kadaffy dictatorship. America should too, but we won't because it was Obama who persuaded the Brits to let Megrahi go in 2009.

[HerbieHoover]

I suspect that if the Libyan rebels captured him (if the captors know who they got), they’d be glad to exchange him for some extra aid.