Relatives of the victims of an airliner Libyan terrorists blew up over Scotland 20 years ago are appealing to British Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald for information on any secret talks to release the convicted mastermind of the attack to Libya.
"I have a great fear that your government may revisit promises made concerning the transfer of the convicted bomber back to Libya," Francis J. Duggan, president of Victims of Pan Am 103, said in a letter to Mr. Sheinwald on Friday.
Mr. Duggan said he is concerned by newspaper reports that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi might be included in a treaty between Britain and Libya to transfer other Libyan prisoners held in British jails to Libya. The treaty is expected to be considered by the British Parliament in April.
Mr. Duggan, a Washington lawyer, said he has been unable to "determine, from a reading of the treaty, whether al-Megrahi was specifically considered during the negotiations leading up to the agreement."
"There were many British citizens killed on Dec. 21, 1988, and relatives of those passengers on Pan Am 103 were assured that the proposed treaty did not cover the Lockerbie bomber," Mr. Duggan said, adding that American relatives of the victims are also petitioning the U.S. government to block any transfer of Megrahi to Libya.
[From the Embassy Row column of today's edition of The Washington Times. The full article can be read here.]
MEBO proposal:
ReplyDeleteFor humanitarian and medical reasons the judges at the High Court in Edinburgh allow Mr. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to leave Scotland for medical treatment in Switzerland. Mr Megrahis family will also get permission to stay with him in Switzerland.
The Swiss governement is already in contact with Scotland via legal international assistance in this case and would guarantee the Scottish authorities to hand over Mr Megrahi for his second appeal, if his state of health permits it.
We are neither pessimistic nor optimistic about Megrahi's appeal, but we are determined to reveal the Scottish miscarriage of justice with our exonerating evidence and thus help to rehabilitate Libya and give Mr. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi his honour back.
We will prove that Libya and Mr Al Megrahi had absolutely nothing to do with the PanAm 103 bombing!
A revised judgement in favour of Libya and its official Mr. Megrahi will rise Libya's international reputation and the prestige of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, who was a key figure in normalizing Libya's relations with the World and make the international community aware of the unjust UN-embargo against Libya and its people.
It's high time that Scotland's High Court of Justiciary makes a clear decision to reestablish Libya's and Mr. Megrahis damaged prestige and honour.
Otherwise the delaying tactics of the Scottish jurisdication with the help of a mysterious document "under national security" is obvious.
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland