Question by PaRtY 2012 -One Down Two to Go: Is Scotland being scorned by the Rest of the World for their SCAM?
Senators vow diligence in ‘pursuit of justice’ for Lockerbie victims
London, England (CNN) — Two U.S. senators from New Jersey intensified their calls for the British and Scottish governments — and oil giant BP — to provide information surrounding the circumstances of the convicted Lockerbie bomber’s release a year ago.
The British government urged Libya on Friday not to celebrate the anniversary of the convicted bomber’s release, saying it would be “offensive and deeply insensitive” to the families of the 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Scotland.
Scottish authorities have defended their actions in the case, saying Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill relied on a medical report from the top doctor in the Scottish Prison Service, along with reports from the parole board and prison governor, in deciding to free al Megrahi, who had been serving a life sentence.
U.S. senators also have repeatedly voiced suspicions that Scotland released al Megrahi as part of a deal allowing BP to drill off the Libyan coast. Salmond has already shot down such concerns, saying “there is no evidence whatsoever” of any link.
Menendez plans to chair a U.S. Senate hearing in September on the controversy surrounding al Megrahi’s release.
Friday, Menendez said the senators have asked the British and Scottish governments to conduct an independent investigation in the United Kingdom, which he said Cameron supported before he became prime minister.
Lautenberg called on British and Scottish officials to stop “stonewalling and side-tracking.”
“Help us clear the air; help us give information to the families.”
Menendez also said letters are being sent to Libyan and Qatari leaders, inquiring whether “commercial interests” led them to pressure Britain and Scotland to release al Megrahi.
Al Megrahi is the only person ever convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/20/uk.lockerbie/index.html?hpt=T2
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Answer by apeman605
There was no valid reason for releasing a mass murderer. So what if he was near death?
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What scam?
The bombing occurred over Scottish soil. Part of Scots Law is that dying prisoners can be released compassionately. Based on the medical reports they were given, he was released as such. It’s based on Christian principles of mercy.
The BP thing is irrelevant, since that was with the UK government, not the Scottish government.
As a final point, what authority does Senator Menendez claim for summoning Scottish politicians?
IT WAS BP that cut the DEAL
with KADAFIE OIL RIGHTS for TERRORIST FREEDOM
and THE CONS that SUPPORT BP
no just by america
and the BP thing is just a cheap shot I doubt they had anything to do with it
the crash happened on british soil which makes it a british matter
Mendez is just full of hot hair and a hypocrite. Scotland via BP cannot “deal” with Libya for oil if you know how the UK works. It has no foreign powers or even an oil fund. Only in a fiscal autonomous or independent Scotland can this work.
The American press need to stop reporting his nonsense. Mendez won’t invite Tony Blair, who orchestrated the Deal in the Desert. Why not? Mendez also ignores the various US oil companies lobbying of the US Senate over deals with Libya.
* US Oil companies were the chief lobbyists to have Libya excluded from legislation allowing American victims of state sponsored terrorism to sue responsible countries or US firms operating in those countries.
* The legislation removing Libya from the bill was co-sponsored by Frank Lautenberg – one of the four senators currently claiming BP lobbied for Al Megrahi’s release.
* Reports in the New York Times when the legislation – which prevented the families of victims of the Lockerbie bombing suing Libya was introduced – state that ConocoPhillips, Hess, Occidental and Marathon Oil lobbied alongside the Libyan Government, along with an Oil industry lobby group and supported by ExxonMobil, Chevron and Dow Chemical all lobbied US senators to pass the amendment exempting Libya.
*The amendment passed unanimously with no Senator speaking out against it.
* Suggestions have also been raised over the role of the US-Libya Business Association and a trade deal signed between the US and Libya in May 2010 which highlighted oil as Libya’s major export to the USA.
That’s too funny…given all the stone walling and side tracking that went on during the intial investigation into the crime.
Here is something your precious Senators should question. Why did a member of the US Presidents Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, set up to review the Lockerbie bombing, say to representatives of UK relatives “your government and our government know what happened, but they are not going to tell you”.
Why was the bomb of the same design known to be made by Iranian and Syrian back terrorists (Megrahi has no history of being a bomb maker), and despite Iran promising revenge of the USS Vincennies (?) incident earlier in 1988, Libyia was seen to be the guilty party?
Why did CIA agents say Iran and Syria were behind the bombing, yet they have been gagged by the US Government from talking further on the matter?
Scotland has done nothing wrong here. The US has the answers.
there was no solid evidence against him. he was arrested because CIA SUSPECTED him.
well done scotland