[This is the headline over a report from Associated Press just published on the website of The Washington Post. It reads in part:]
British and Scottish officials who have declined to appear at a hearing this week on the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi should reconsider in order to dispel "a cloud of suspicion" over the issue, two US senators said Monday.
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Sen Robert Menendez of New Jersey, standing in Times Square along with relatives of some of those killed in the bombing, said it was important to get the facts surrounding the circumstances of al-Meghrahi's 2009 release. The senators are probing whether an oil exploration deal between oil giant BP and Libya influenced the decision. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
"The abundance of incredible coincidences surrounding al-Megrahi's release deserves a real open, transparent hearing," Menendez said Monday.
"A cloud of suspicion will hang over the entire issue at least until all the looming questions are answered," he added.
[Does anyone think for even an instant that "a real open, transparent hearing" could be obtained before a committee composed of these grandstanding clowns?]
"A cloud of suspicion will hang over the entire issue at least until all the looming questions are answered,"
ReplyDeleteIts an interesting quote this one. My goodness, he could even be talking about the atrocity itself. There's that American failure to recognise irony again.
How about "the abundance of incredible coincidences surrounding" the whole Lockerbie incident, and particularly the evidence apparently pointing at Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, then?
ReplyDeleteI swear this whole affair is some sort of supernatural coincidence nexus, the Selby Rail Crash of international terrorism. And the cancer and the PTA and the compassionate release and the BP link and the oil spill and these cretinous senators is just the latest installment.
Bizarre tho, isn't it, that the Americans are still appealing to UK and Scottish politicians to attend their wee "hearing". What part of no was it that they didn't understand do you think?
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