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Scotland seeks contact with Lockerbie bomber

World Aug. 23, 2011 - 06:21AM JST ( 9 )

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USNinJapan2Aug. 23, 2011 - 09:59AM JST

and Barbour said there has been no breach of his release conditions or cause for concern about his parole.

Really? How about the fact that he's still alive after two years despite being released out of sympathy for a three month progmosis?
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AsagaoAug. 23, 2011 - 11:32AM JST

Actually, there is overwhelming evidence that may of been innocent. They want to shut him up maybe, he will publish a book soon.
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SuperLibAug. 23, 2011 - 12:02PM JST

Yeah because I know if I wanted to shut someone up I'd release him from my prison, send him back home, lose contact with him during a civil war, then go after him. Makes perfect sense to handle it that way.
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Lieberman2012Aug. 23, 2011 - 12:32PM JST

Actually, there is overwhelming evidence that may of been innocent. They want to shut him up maybe, he will publish a book soon.

Or maybe he will use muppets to get his message out to people like asagao.
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lucabrasiAug. 23, 2011 - 12:59PM JST

@Lieberman

Asagao's quite right; there was enormous unease about this conviction in Europe, especially among the relatives of the victims. Google it if you want.

There was no unease at all in the USA and I reckon your comment would be fairly representative of views there: Anyone interested in finding out what actually happened is obviously a "muppet". Well obviously....
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Graham DeShazoAug. 23, 2011 - 03:48PM JST

Compassion was putting him on trial and in prision rather than releasing him naked on the streets of Lockerbie. BTW, he was tried and conviceted in Scotish courts, not some kangaroo job. If there was "enourmous unease" in Europe about his conviction, it is because it required their learned class to put aside their moral relativism.
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lucabrasiAug. 23, 2011 - 04:01PM JST

@Graham

Nothing to do with "moral relativism", quite the opposite. The (European) families of the dead wanted justice and a lot of them attended the trial. And a lot of those people were convinced that el-Magrahi was innocent. Are you saying they should just shut up, accept a dodgy verdict and stop their demands for the arrest of the true perpetrator(s)?
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lostrune2Aug. 23, 2011 - 05:02PM JST

Anyways, with the fall of Gadhafi, he won't be living the privileged life in Libya anymore, so just let him suffer there.
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lucabrasiAug. 24, 2011 - 12:16AM JST

@Asagao

But if he is executed or whatever, that still leaves the problem that the dirty terrorists are out there free, laughing at your stupidity, why an innocent man may be paying for their horrid crimes

With you all the way on this one. Any careful consideration of the prosecution's case reveals troubling inconsistencies and a lot of room for doubt. Basically el-Magrahi was the victim of a "We've got to pin this on someobody quick" mentality. Happens a lot in the UK; compare the Birmingham Six and the Guilford Four cases.