[This is the headline over an Associated Press news report just published on the CBS3 website. It reads in part:]
Their own request denied, four US senators are pressuring the State Department to push Britain to investigate the circumstances of last year's release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie airliner bombing. (...)
Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer of New York and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey requested the investigation in a July 7 letter to the UK's ambassador to the US.
"The decision by the Scottish government to reject our request to reinvestigate the decision to release this terrorist raises more suspicions as to whether there was a rotten deal between the United Kingdom and the Libya government," Schumer said Monday. "So we're calling on the State Department to put a full-court press on the United Kingdom to return this terrorist to prison."
In his response to the senators, British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald said due process was followed.
"The Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament conducted an inquiry into Mr Megrahi's release earlier this year and concluded that the Scottish Executive's consideration of the case took place in accordance with normal good practice," Sheinwald said.
State Department spokesman PJ Crowley could not say if Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had received the letter from the senators seeking the investigation but said the US continues to watch the situation with Megrahi closely.
"We haven't changed our view. We think that the decision to release Mr. Megrahi last summer was a mistake," he told reporters in Washington.
"There was an expectation from last August that Mr. Megrahi had only a few months to live. We've been on the Megrahi watch since that time," Crowley said. "Every day that he lives as a free man, we think is an affront to the families of and victims of Pan Am 103."
MISSION LOCKERBIE:
ReplyDeleteMr. Al-Megrahi's only possibility would be to re-activate then the success promising Appeal's to uncover the Miscarriage of Justice. Libya and Abdelbaset Al Megrahi definitiv not involved in the PanAm-103 Lockerbie Tragedy.
MEBO suffered large damage by the unnecessary retreat of the success promising Appeal..
Which state secret service has a motive and is interested in it, for not open the 'PII' until today; thereby Libya for the PanAm 103 Tragedy can not dismiss from the responsibility ?
Opens the document under National Security (PII) and begins with the investigations in the real case of Lockerbie…
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland. URL: www.lockerbie.ch
Their own request denied, four US senators are pressuring the State Department to push Britain to investigate the circumstances of last year's release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie airliner bombing. (...)
ReplyDeleteThe obvious response by Britain to this impertinence by the US senators should be to press ahead with an immediate United Nations investigation into the targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103.
Everyone wants an investigation into some alleged miscarriage of justice. Can't we let this get put up but have someone engineer a rider to look into the whole case against Libya, the thing Patrick speaks of, the PFLP-GC angle, the Vincennes incident, the killing of Megrahi's appeal, AND the decision to release him?
ReplyDeleteYes we can!
My response to Schumer et al
Hah. None of their damn business. It's only bluster for political point-scoring anyway.
ReplyDeleteDo they actually want to send a gunboat to Tripoli to bring the man back to Scotland? Because that's what it would take.