tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post169212323260429794..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Libya and Lockerbie compensationRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-63439998587397684562015-04-11T17:21:43.500+01:002015-04-11T17:21:43.500+01:00[RB: Libya has not “acknowledged responsibility fo...[RB: Libya has not “acknowledged responsibility for the bombing”; what it has done is “accept responsibility for the actions of its officials”.]<br />http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/libyan-august-2003-acceptance-of.html<br /><br />And it of course would not _matter whether an acknowledgement was made.<br />In politics, a statement means: "we see it as the best thing to do to say this". <br /><br />We are not talking about a schoolkid that breaks down and confess for the matter of truth, justice and forgiveness.<br /><br />Libya had an embargo-gun against their head. They would (however guilty or not) issue the least-incriminating statement that would be accepted to lift it. This was it.<br /><br />SCCRC said<br />'6.3 The Commission also took into account a letter submitted by Libya to the United Nations Security Council in 2003 in which it accepted “responsibility for the actions of its officials” in the “Lockerbie incident”. However, as the Commission did not view the letter as amounting to confirmation by Libya of the applicant’s guilt, it did not believe that its terms justified refusing his case in the interests of justice.'<br /><br />SCCRC would not have needed to go into the details. They could simply have stated that in evaluation of the guilt of Megrahi, official governmental statements have no value what so ever, unless, of course, that a statement strongly contrasts to any trivial motive you could find for making it.<br />SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272238187226269250noreply@blogger.com