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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] The conviction was completely unsafe. Intelligence agencies on both side of the Atlantic were fucking shitting themselves over what might have come out at the next appeal - the Heathrow baggage break-in, the dodgy Maltese identification, the Syrian connection that was ignored by a US administration with a hard-on for Libya (shades of 9/11 there with the immediate demand for evidence of Iraqi complicity, hmm?). The same FBI director now tut-tutting over the whole thing was going to have to face demands for explanations from US bereaved who find they've been lied to for 20 years. And the concept of Compassion, while recognised in the Scottish legal system, is alien to your legal system, formed as it appears to have been from the belief that it is better a thousand innocent people be punished wrongly than see a single guilty person go unpunished. So, please, don't buy into all this manufactured outrage. The US govermnent wanted this to happen because it lets them off the hook. The British central government wanted this to happen because it makes the Scottish Nationalist government look bad (latest to dip his oar in is the former LABOUR First Minister, keen to score points with voters in the face of a potential devolution referendum). It sucks that the Libyans are determined to make as much of a hoo-hah about the release as they can, but unfortunately "We have to keep so-and-so locked up because letting him go will let the baddies gloat" isn't a part of even the allegedly-liberal Scottish legal code. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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