A number of press reports of the book launch, such as this one, on the Daily
Record’s website, carry the following quote by the Prime Minister:
“This is yet another reminder
that Alex Salmond’s government’s decision to free the UK’s greatest mass
murderer was wrong. Writing a book three years after he was released is an
insult to the families of the 270 people who were murdered.”
As well as being factually inaccurate – Abdelbaset didn’t write
the book, I did – the statement begs a huge question: how can Cameron possibly
comment upon a book that he hasn’t read? If he did read it, he would learn that
Abdelbaset was convicted on shaky evidence; that the Crown failed to disclose
many items of exculpatory evidence from the defence; that the real Lockerbie
bombers evaded capture; and that the Libyan people endured 12 years of UN
sanctions on the basis of evidence that ranged from shaky to concocted. Of course,
those are things that he would rather not know, because they expose the
hypocrisy and vacuity of his position on Lockerbie. Maybe I should send him a
copy (I assume he can read, after all, he had an excellent education).
The person who insults the dead here is Cameron just as his predecessor Thatcher did when she followed orders to frame Libya. Shame on him.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Mr Ashton, but Dave is only interested in Lockerbie when he's embarrassing the Scots or promoting a war. Realpolibeingadick, I believe they call it.
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