tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post8736568948994625794..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Of Mandela, Shamuyarira and the Lockerbie affairRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-72141956053212686532014-06-23T08:25:50.871+01:002014-06-23T08:25:50.871+01:00Thank you for the links!
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Note, BTW, that l...Thank you for the links!<br /><br />- - -<br /><br />Note, BTW, that links that may be available from a few sources may disappear.<br /><br />There is probably no law that says that they should be kept up forever, and they may disappear, e.g. because of simple restructuring of material. Somebody might cry dry tears?!<br /><br />So friends of JfM should consider downloading and saving somewhere.<br /><br />I didn't mention "backups". That is a dirty word.sfmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02127645052255935678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-58577432303749409262014-06-21T14:48:31.595+01:002014-06-21T14:48:31.595+01:00Thank you, sfm. Another copy of my "From Lock...Thank you, sfm. Another copy of my "From Lockerbie to Zeist" article appears on Scribd and this does allow copying and pasting, I think: http://www.scribd.com/doc/230036481/From-Lockerbie-to-Zeist<br /><br />The two "fine print" documents are available online. Here's the UK Order in Council: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2251/contents/made<br />and here's the treaty between the UK and the Netherlands (at page 81):<br />http://archives.syr.edu/panam/pdf/103PUB0036.pdfRobert Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-43259033249682174252014-06-21T12:40:14.022+01:002014-06-21T12:40:14.022+01:00^ Objection, your Honor, the witness is speculatin...^ Objection, your Honor, the witness is speculating.<br /><br />- - -<br /><br />Thank you, RB, for the very interesting link to the fundamentals of your involvement in the case.<br /><br />Note, BTW, that Google Docs disallow copying and pasting from them, which for some users (including this one) will be a deciding factor in the question of whether to use them or not.<br /><br />You mention that some 'very fine print' in the document was interpreted as having been deliberately designed to entrap the Libyan defense team, and so it took another year, as negotiations could not be made directly.<br /><br />Is the document in English, and is it available?<br /><br />In any case, 'delay' was clearly a policy all the time, in stark contrast to the speed of which sanctions were imposed and in effect, which took only half a year.<br /><br />Crime upon crime against the country of Libya. <br /><br />Getting the trial going, thereby removing the political excuse for the embargo, will have helped a great many people.<br /><br />Regarding the innocence of Megrahi, JfM has long ago established consensus among those actually looking into the matter.<br /><br />To move a system where basically every institution would like to see the truth suppressed is a monumental task, but even that is going better than anyone could have hoped.<br /><br />sfmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02127645052255935678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-53147949322245764332014-06-21T08:19:28.414+01:002014-06-21T08:19:28.414+01:00It was a remarkable achievement to compel the US t...It was a remarkable achievement to compel the US to agree to a trial they never wanted to hold that would expose their trumped up charges to the world about Libyan responsibility for Lockerbie.<br /><br />But at a heavy price because rather than resolving the matter the exposure compelled the US to embark on yet more sever actions to cover-up [at least officially] the extended cover-up.<br /><br />Hence the humanitarian destruction of Libya to save lives and the assassination of Gaddafi in a brutal but failed attempt to derail PE1370 by getting a new regime to accept responsibility for Lockerbie!<br /><br />Sanctions are an act of war [and can be deadly], but they were not crippling Libya, because sanctions incite countries to become successful smugglers and build their own industries.<br /><br />But politically they were a problem because they restricted a younger generation’s access to western consumer goods and mostly because Gaddafi wanted a rapprochement with the US/west.<br /><br />And this was because his creed of pan-Arab secular socialism was under attack from the Islamists and he foolishly thought he shared a common enemy with US.<br /><br />Not realising that the US ‘war on terror’ against the Islamists also involved supporting the Islamists [as they did in Libya] against the secular states to ensure ongoing conflict and civil war in the Middle-East on behalf of Israel, not oil.<br />Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213240619989073000noreply@blogger.com