Sunday 3 July 2011

US tells Libya rebels: Capture the Lockerbie bomber for us

[This is the headline over a report published today on the Mail Online website. It reads in part:]

A dramatic mission to capture the freed Lockerbie bomber from Libya and return him to face justice in the United States was revealed last night.

Under a secret deal between Barack Obama and Libyan rebel leaders, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi would be detained by opposition troops and then handed over to US Special Forces.

Senior Congressional sources in Washington have disclosed to The Mail on Sunday that President Obama has told the Libyan rebels through intermediaries that a condition of continued support from the US is that they must hand over Megrahi if they enter Tripoli.

The mission would involve Megrahi being flown to a neutral Arab country by US Special Forces once he is handed over by the rebels, and then on to America to face trial. [RB: Megrahi has already faced trial and been convicted -- wrongly, in my view -- in a process supported by the United States. He could not be tried again in the USA unless Federal Law were changed to allow it.] British SAS soldiers are unlikely to be directly involved in the operation.

The plan to capture the bomber came after US Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder last week to demand the US ‘continue working to return Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to prison’.

Mr Menendez has amended a Congressional Bill authorising the continued use of force in Libya to include a paragraph ordering ‘the continuation of Federal investigations into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103’.

Congressional sources disclosed that the US will ‘grab’ Megrahi as soon as they can.

3 comments:

  1. That's very very shocking. Might makes right, if you're American.

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  2. The plan to capture the bomber came after US Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder last week to demand the US 'continue working to return Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to prison.'

    Mr Menendez has amended a Congressional Bill authorising the continued use of force in Libya to include a paragraph ordering 'the continuation of Federal investigations into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103.'


    Senators Lautenberg and Menendez have a vested interest in perpetuating the myth of Libyan responsibility for Lockerbie, and in playing down the role of Iran and apartheid South Africa.

    Former De Beers manager in Namibia Gordon Brown explained: "De Beers stood to lose the most valuable diamond mining property in the world and monopoly control of the global diamond business if Lockerbie victim Bernt Carlsson reached New York and brought action against them as was his intent."

    Gordon Brown added that the US Senators, who were making such a big fuss about the compassionate release of 'Lockerbie bomber' al-Megrahi, were using blood diamond money to divert attention from the actual perpetrators of the Pan Am Flight 103 crime: "Senators Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg receive election campaign funds from Maurice Tempelsman who worked for the De Beers Diamond Cartel, now a criminal enterprise."

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  3. What is shocking is that Salmond, and Mr Justice himself, remain silent on such rumours. No public declarations now, from either, about Scots Law, Scottish Justice and the rest. No kicking ass now, of yank senators, by Salmond, telling them to get out of Scottish jurisdiction and mind their own business. Even when the illegality of what these crazy Americans want is crystal clear. Megrahi has been tried, convicted and released on licence: he therefore remains Scotland's prisoner and the the US has no claim on him whatsoever. If Salmond gave a damn he would already be speaking to the UK government about these ever-growing rumours of American plans to seize Megrahi to get the law made clear to the US. Better still the Scottish Government, with the Scottish Justice System should be getting Megrahi back to Scotland until the Libyan situation is resolved one way or another. But make no mistake, the USA is now exposed again for what it is: a big guy who pushes everyone else around while labelling others "terrorists". No wonder they are despised and hated throughout the world.

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