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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Funny- people over here are calling Scotland "Terrorist Friendly" and writing editorials on how their justice system is hypicritical at best and complicit after the fact at worst- assuming Lybia really did negotiate this releae in exchange for friendly terms with the UK. [URL=http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1207555.html]Why, here's a good editorial.[/URL] [QUOTE][b] Yes, the former Libyan intelligence agent is purportedly dying of cancer. But as a London Times columnist asked: Would the same Scots release Robert Black, the Scottish serial killer of young girls, if he were on death's door? [/b][/QUOTE]I'd have to say "Fuck No, they wouldn't. [QUOTE][b]Clearly something is going on here that has little to do with compassion. Americans, who remember the Lockerbie tragedy with horror, deserve to know the real reason Megrahi was freed. The most likely possibility falls under the heading ``business and blackmail.'' The Brits have extensive trade interests in Libya, and Megrahi had become an obstacle to them. (No one believes British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's claim that the decision rested solely with Scottish officials.) [As Saif Gadhafi, a son of Libya's leader, put it last week, ``In all commercial contracts for oil and gas with Britain, Megrahi was always on the negotiating table.'' His father, the mercurial Moammar, went out of his way to embarrass Brown, along with Queen Elizabeth and her son Prince Andrew (a regular visitor to Libya on trade missions), by thanking them publicly for their alleged role in Megrahi's release. The British had been seeking to unload Megrahi for some time since Gadhafi's renunciation of terrorism and his scrapping of Libya's weapons of mass destruction in 2003. Gadhafi made clear that lucrative oil deals depended on Megrahi's repatriation. Moreover, Gadhafi has been using his oil and gas wealth to blackmail Europeans into accepting his unorthodox behavior. Over the past year, the Libyan leader waged economic war against the Swiss after his son Hannibal, a reputed playboy, was briefly arrested by police in a Geneva hotel based on complaints that he had been beating his servants. In response, Gadhafi cut off crucial oil supplies to Switzerland and made two Swiss citizens living in Tripoli virtual hostages. After the Swiss president made a groveling apology, Libya promised to restore normal relations and to let the hostages go. British expats were threatened with similar reprisals if Megrahi died in prison, according to The London Times. So home he went. [/b][/QUOTE]I think you guys underestimate exactly how shitty this make all of the UK look- what's more, how it looks to the families of the victims of terrorists everywhere and the families of the fallen british soldiers that have died "fighting terrorism" that the UK sold out this way. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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