Posted on 08/15/2011 11:52:57 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yep.
Unless we said otherwise, he should be picked up and tried here in America based upon the murder of quite a few Americans on that flight.
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