White House Backed Release of Lockerbie Bomber

[Shady]

Looks like the Obama administration is gonna have a lot of explaining to do come monday's press conference with Robert Gibbs.

White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber

THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be "far preferable" to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

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Yeah, I'd say that threatens to undermine Obama's claim. To put it another way. He's been caught completely lying.

[punked]

Addressing a political reality which would have deep rooted problems in a transfer because it would mean other terrorists could be transfered as well. Tough choices indeed.

PS the letter actually said keep him in prison in Scotland but if you are going to make any other decision you can't transfer him because that means you have to let other terrorist go.

Edited July 25, 2010 by punked

[Topaz]

Also, the doctors said he had 3 years to live with the cancer but that kind of cancer is slow growing and can take up to 20 years to kill a guy and now they say he has at least ten years.

[Sir Bandelot]

Well first we heard that British Petroleum had something to do with it, because they wanted to score a deal on some Libyan oil wells. So what's in it for Obama.

[punked]

Well first we heard that British Petroleum had something to do with it, because they wanted to score a deal on some Libyan oil wells. So what's in it for Obama.

Did you read the article? Obama told them not to release him but that they could not transfer him because it would change a deal the US made with the UK. So their options went from release, transfer, or keep him to release or keep him. This is where BP came in for them to get the oil deal they needed the Scots to release or transfer, the US took transfer off the table so he got released.