[Today is the twenty-second anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster. A number of print and broadcast media run commemorative features and interviews with relatives of victims. Two examples can be found here and here.
But the Scottish Conservative Party has chosen today to launch a further attack on the compassionate release in August 2009 of Abdelbaset Megrahi. A report in today's edition of The Herald reads in part:]
The Conservatives have renewed their attack on the decision to release the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing on the 22nd anniversary of the atrocity. (...)
Conservative justice spokesman John Lamont said yesterday: “The decision by the SNP to release the Lockerbie bomber was a bad decision, made badly.
“But, as a consequence he has spent the last 18 months with his family and friends in Libya. He has been allowed to live his final weeks and months with those he loves.
“That is something he denied his victims.” (...)
A Scottish Government spokesman said last night: “Our thoughts and sympathies are with all those affected by the events of that terrible night, but most especially the families and relatives, wherever they are in the world.
“Scotland’s justice system has been dealing with the Lockerbie atrocity for 22 years and in every regard the due process of Scots law has been followed – in terms of the investigation, prosecution, imprisonment, rejection of the prisoner transfer application and granting of compassionate release.”
[The Tory Party in Scotland is moribund. In this year's UK general election it won one Scottish seat out of a total of fifty-nine. In the light of political crassness such as is displayed in the above statement, it is not difficult to see why.]
MISSION LOCKERBIE:
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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied !
Finding the truth if Mr.Abdelbaset Al Megrahi and Libya have something to do or not with the Pan Am bombing, is very easy!
The Scottish Parliament will finally open the documents of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), leading to the truth to the document under National Security (PII).
1996, the Crown Office received a document from an unknown state about the MST-13 Timer under national security.
At the first hearing on the 19th of October 2007 the Appeal court in Edinburgh suddenly confirmed after more than 3 months the existence of a document "under national security"; but keeps ist content closed...
The UK Government by Advocate General Lord Davidson QC, blocked the progress and has argued that it is not in the public interest to release the secret document. He claimed: "The national security was at stake"!!!
Procecuting counsel Ronnie Clancy added later that the secret document did not originate from the USA or one of ist agencies as the CIA...
Also the oldest Requests DocID: 926***, to the U.S. Department of State Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is until today outstanding ! Documents concerning warnings: Parts of the document questions:
c) threatened to take place during the period December 17-23, 1988;
d) threatened to take place in the form of placement of a bomb on a US flight:
e) warning (s) from MOSSAD during December 1988;
g) threatened to take place against Pan Am Flight 103;
h) warning from MOSSAD within the 24 hours before December 21, 1988,
that Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 was the target of a terrorist attack.
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied !
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland. URL: www.lockerbie.ch
"Scotland’s justice system has been dealing with the Lockerbie atrocity for 22 years and in every regard the due process of Scots law has been followed – in terms of the investigation, prosecution, imprisonment, rejection of the prisoner transfer application and granting of compassionate release.”
ReplyDeleteAnyone see the world "appeal" in there anywhere?
oops, ignore the typo. World should be word.
ReplyDeleteMISSION LOCKERBIE: google translation, german/nglish
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With respect to the Families of the PAN AM 103 Victims.
A Part of the truth in the Lockerbie case is in the hands of the Scottish Parliament.
Some Officials of Scottish authoritys need to know exactly when Mr. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi (Political victims No.271) and Libya have nothing to do with the attack on Pan Am 103. Therefore, could the Secretary of Justice Kenny MacAskill easily taken the responsibility, and dismissed the innocent for 10 years in Scottish prison languishing Mr Al Megrahi in the long-overdue freedom.
Mr. Al Megrahi was diagnosed with stress in prison, and insufficient medical care life-threatening ill !
We wish to Abdelbaset Al Megrahi and his family that he withdrew his honor before his death shall be announced.
The 'Scottish Parliament' which dates from the circumstantial evidence of a confirmed "miscarriage of justice" (SCCRC) blocked or to keep secret, as in the "Lockerbie case" violates the human right!
Justice for Mr Abdelbaset Al Megrahi and for the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
Mr Abdelbaset and the Libyan people deserve the right to prove that the truth is revealed and that their honour will be fully restored.
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland. URL: www.lockerbie.ch
Mr. Black,
ReplyDeleteIt should be noted that this article contained significant factual errors not reflected in the report. Please note that CNN has made these corrections and this posting no longer reflects the original article.