Was Freed Lockerbie Bomber a Patsy?

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Intersting notion paul (colorado),al qaeda western style with no leader /center or command structure .whehter or not the terrorists would finally get it is another matter because they like commies don't value human life anyway.

mountain neighbor of WY 12:15AM August 24, 2009

Is this really justice or a random act of kindness ( like the bumper sticker slogan)? what if people were to just randomly pick out a moslem,any moslem to mete out justice of a sort,what would that do to send a message to those who have harmed or would our fellow Americans?Would it work?Is it counter-productive?

Paul of CO 11:34PM August 23, 2009

UKVisitor of XX
I do think you make a valid point about Libya's propensity for terrorism and it is certainly true that they cannot be ruled out as candidates for this, but the only immediate reason (other than that Libya were generally bad guys) why Libya was implicated in this was because of very specific pieces of evidence which have now been called into serious question by serious misbehavior by the FBI.

David of MD 12:53PM August 23, 2009

It really is a mystery as to whether he is guilty or not, but from all the things I have read over the past 5 years I would say no. I actually find the reaction of the US government extraordinary, especially when you consider the fact that the only American found guilty in the murder of 500 in Vietnam was only given 3 years house arrest. Now that is what I call a scandel!

Michael 8:26PM August 22, 2009

It seems we have to get used to these decisions.As we notice people will go to extreme extends to kill for oil.Here we are still punishing people for war crimes(Den Haag)giving them live sentences guarded by Scotish Justice,and now they let a person fre who killed over 250 people.if this was a cover up let the man go .I think it was a cover up and the guilty are feeling it.The prize of peace is oil until that runs out what then.Common sense says that from the beginning to now he wasnt guilty.I am sure if he was guilty theyd let him die in prison as lots of prisoners do.By the way how many prisoners do die in prison in USA??

anthony bauwens of CA 6:27AM August 22, 2009

Sorry for one error in my post below: Libya certainly destroyed the French airliner UTA772, but not specifically in revenge for the bombing of Tripoli.
As well as conflict with America (details in previous post) Libya also had issues with the French in sub-Saharan Africa and at the time saw them as a legitimate target for terrorism, like America.
Still, no conspiracy theory necessary.

UKVisitor 5:49AM August 22, 2009

"Ronnie Ray Gun and the officers and men of his gunship the USS Vincennes caused Lockerbie"
"Lockerbie bomber was released by the secret order from Gordon Brown with undisclosed Obama supports to secretly ask Scottish justice to do so because of Brown and Gaddafi’s trade deals"
From two posts below. The trouble with all this speculation is, though it's obvious oil causes politicians to coddle up to tyrants (see Saudia Arabia), there's just no evidence that any of this occurred the way conspiracy theory posters allege.
If we want to engage with the real world, we'd better use real world evidence, not let our politics decide what that evidence should be. The litmus test of that is, where's the facts?
Let me try again: here's that 'tit for tat' from the 1980s:
1) Libya bombed Berlin (a diplomat was caught for this)
2) America then bombed Tripoli as punishment
3) In revenge Libyan agents destroyed a French plane (UTA 772)
Why is it then so incredible that Libya also caused Lockerbie, exactly as the court found?
Why is it also so necessary to imagine dark hidden motives, when the actual motives were so blinking obvious?

UKVisitor 5:02AM August 22, 2009

Last month Prime Minister Gordon Brown met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at G8 Summit in Italy for discussing their secret deals. Muammar Gaddafi wanted Lockerbie bomber to release from the Scottish prison in order to exchange for secret oil deals between Libya and Great Britain. So, Lockerbie bomber was released by the secret order from Gordon Brown with undisclosed Obama supports to secretly ask Scottish justice to do so because of Brown and Gaddafi’s trade deals. Obviously, that is oil blackmail. Huge business in the United States and Great Britain wants Libyan oil, and that's what's driving this whole thing. High-oil-addicted western nations, especially for UK and USA kneel down and beg to oil-rich countries for oil. Oil and greed are more dominant than morality and human values. The enemies knew UK and USA's weakest link to oil because we can not survive without oil and can unable to stand up against oil-rich anti-Western countries. UK and USA are biggest losers of 21st century because oil tolls and weakens our economy and our livelihood. That is tragedy for our western civilization declines, but it is triumph for oil-rich nations, especially for those anti-Americanism nations. Adam Smith said that "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent" is a tragedy true fact for Lockerbie bomber walking heroic freely while 270 people’s death left unanswered. Shame on Gordon Brown for letting Libyan terrorist-bomber free and receiving a huge oil bonanza!

Unemployed Jeff of VA 8:52PM August 21, 2009

Ronnie Ray Gun and the officers and men of his gunship the USS Vincennes caused Lockerbie

humbaba of OR 8:14PM August 21, 2009

Excuse me if my comments came across as snide. I wasn't intending to be being snide, I simply wanted to remind some of those making conspiracy theories out of Lockerbie that Libya is perfectly plausible plotter on this (as opposed to Syria, Iran, South Africa, and all the others that come out in comments).
As for your point about about Bush, Cheney, etc, whatever your views on the last administration: it doesn't mean we shouldn't make a judgement about what's right in the case of the Lockerbie bomber.

UKVisitor 6:37PM August 21, 2009