"Britain’s new leader rebuffs US on Lockerbie case" by Ben Feller, Associated Press | July 21, 2010
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said yesterday that he would not order a fresh investigation into why Scotland set free a convicted bomber or whether
President Obama stood by his new peer but said “all the facts’’ must come out.
In declaring his position — to potentially make public more information from an earlier investigation of the man’s release, but not start a new probe — Cameron politely but roundly rebuffed the US government in his first White House visit....
Beyond the lingering anger, the case swirls anew with interest because of its possible links to BP, the company facing a huge fallout in the United States for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
“I think all of us here in the United States were surprised, disappointed, and angry about the release of the Lockerbie bomber,’’ Obama said in a short news conference dominated by the topic. Yet he added, “The key thing to understand here is that we’ve got a British prime minister who shares our anger over the decision.’’
At issue is Abdel Baset al-Megrahi of Libya, who was convicted in the 1988 bombing of a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people, most of them Americans. The Scottish government released the cancer-stricken man last year, citing compassionate grounds.
Bringing the matter to the fore again are accusations that BP sought the release of the convicted bomber as part of efforts to seek access to Libyan oil fields; BP has acknowledged that it urged the British government to sign a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, but says it never specified Megrahi’s case.
The British leader said he has not seen anything to suggest that the Scottish government was swayed by BP.He even look for it?
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"Official to skip Lockerbie hearing; Scottish minister invited by Senate" by David Stringer, Associated Press | July 24, 2010
LONDON — The Scottish minister who authorized the release of the Lockerbie bomber said yesterday that he won’t appear at a US Senate hearing on the case....
Why is the U.S. Senate investigating a British-Libya deal?
Does China's government hold hearings on the Israeli spies and their treatment here in AmeriKa?
Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has been invited to address the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is investigating whether oil giant
Some Lockerbie victims’ relatives in Britain have also previously questioned Megrahi’s conviction, believing full facts in the case were not aired at his trial....
Related: MORE EVIDENCE ON LOCKERBIE APPEARS TO IMPLICATE THE CIA
Yeah, MSM won't go there.
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"BP didn’t sway Lockerbie release, UK says" by Jennifer Quinn, Associated Press | July 25, 2010
LONDON — The decision by Scottish authorities to release the only person convicted in the deadly bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was “wrong and misguided,’’ but there is no evidence to suggest that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was returned to Libya in return for lucrative oil deals, Foreign Secretary William Hague of Britain said in letter to US officials.
The Foreign Office released Hague’s letter to Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday....
Related: BP Bought Congress
Oh, Kerry one of their top stockholders, huh?
This is all S*** FOOLEYS to distract the PUBLIC!!
The correspondence was released ahead of a hearing this week in Washington into the circumstances surrounding the release of Megrahi, convicted in 2001 of the attack on the jetliner in the skies above the small town of Lockerbie, Scotland. The Dec. 21, 1988, bombing killed 259 people — mostly Americans — on the plane and 11 on the ground....
But they won't investigate torture, the Iraq war lies, 9/11, or anything else that is really important.
The decision to release Megrahi outraged the families of the US victims of the attack and was criticized by President Obama and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. Hague said he is “profoundly aware that every day this convicted murderer is not serving out his sentence in a Scottish prison adds to the grief and pain of those who lost loved ones in the Lockerbie tragedy.
But oil i$ thicker than blood.
“At the same time, I believe we have a responsibility to address the unsubstantiated rumors that there was some sort of conspiracy involving BP which led to Mr. Megrahi’s release,’’ he wrote.
That isn't the one of which I was thinking.
As Britain and Libya were negotiating a prisoner transfer pact in fall 2007, there were several discussions between BP and former justice secretary Jack Straw or his office, officials at Downing Street, and the British Embassy in Tripoli. Hague’s letter says that the progress of the talks was discussed and that it is a “perfectly normal and legitimate practice for a British company.’’
“It is the sort of exchange which occurs regularly around the world, and one that certainly did occur between a range of companies with interests in Libya and their national governments during this period,’’ the letter says....
Is that why the SAS men are there?
See: BP Has a Lock on Libyan Oil
Just in case the deal falls apart, 'eh?
Straw, MacAskill, and First Minister Alex Salmond of Scotland have said they will not appear at the Senate hearing. MacAskill told the BBC yesterday that he has made clear his reasons for granting Megrahi release numerous times.
BP PLC has said Tony Hayward, chief executive officer, has also been asked to attend, but yesterday the company said a decision on whether he will testify has not been made.Related: BP's Dudley Do-Right Rides to the Rescue
No, I don't think he will be making it (but he will be making off with millions in retirement dough).
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And speaking of inquiries I asked for:
"Ex-British spy chief faults Iraq invasion; Says war has taken focus off Al Qaeda" by David Stringer, Associated Press | July 21, 2010
LONDON — The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from Al Qaeda, emboldened the group’s leader, Osama bin Laden, and helped to breed a generation of homegrown terrorists, Britain’s former domestic spy chief said yesterday.
PFFFFFT!
How is a DEAD GUY emboldened?
And which "Al-CIA-Duh" would that be, huh?
The made-up "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?Btw, ever hear of Mr. Aswat or Mr. Khan, readers?
Also see: May Day Memories: British Patsies
May Day Memories: The U.S. Connection
So what else isn't the MSM telling you, Amurkn?
Making the sharpest criticism so far aired in Britain’s inquiry into mistakes made in the Iraq war, Eliza Manningham-Buller, director of the MI5 agency between 2002 and 2007, said Britain’s government paid little attention to warnings the war would fuel domestic terrorism.
Manningham-Buller also said Iraq had posed little threat before the 2003 US-led invasion and insisted there was no evidence of a link between former dictator Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Then it is a WAR CRIME, isn't it?
“There was no credible intelligence to suggest that connection, and that was the judgment, I might say, of the CIA,’’ she said. “It was not a judgment that found favor with some parts of the American machine.’’
And we know who is at the controls, don't we?
She said those in the United States pushing the case for war gave undue prominence to scraps of inconclusive intelligence on possible links between Iraq and the 2001 attacks. She singled out then-US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
“It is why Donald Rumsfeld started an alternative intelligence unit in the Pentagon to seek an alternative judgment,’’ said Manningham-Buller.
“Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, and I have never seen anything to make me change my mind,’’ she said.
Not exactly ANYTHING we DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW, 'eh?
Manningham-Buller also indicated that MI5 disagreed with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair over a key justification for the war: Iraq’s purported harboring of weapons of mass destruction.
You mean the NON-EXISTENT WMD that WE ALL KNEW ABOUT BEFORE the INVASION!?
Why do you think we were OUT in the STREETS?
She said the belief that Iraq might use such weapons against the West “wasn’t a concern in either the short term or the medium term to either my colleagues or myself.’’
And yet OUR NEWSPAPERS and LEADERS were out there with the LIES, remember?
Manningham-Buller, now a member of the House of Lords, was testifying before a panel that aims to examine the buildup to the Iraq war and errors made in postconflict planning.
It won’t apportion blame or criminal liability, but will issue a report later this year with recommendations....
Oh, so it is a WHITEWASH just like our 9/11 Commission!
Manningham-Buller said the Iraq war vastly increased the terrorism threat to Britain — with her officers battling to handle a torrent of plots launched by homegrown radicals.
“Our involvement in Iraq radicalized, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people — not a whole generation, a few among a generation — who saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan, as being an attack on Islam,’’ she said.
Yeah, the HYPERBOLE fits in well here because this inquiry is full of it!
She disclosed that 70 to 80 British citizens had traveled to Iraq to join the insurgency. Video messages left by the four suicide bombers who killed 52 commuters in the 2005 attacks on London’s subway and bus network had referred to Britain’s role in Iraq.
Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5
Israeli Connections to the London Tube Bombs
So which government studio did they use?The decision to invade Iraq probably provided an impetus to Al Qaeda, she said. “Arguably we gave Osama bin Laden his Iraqi jihad, so that he was able to move into Iraq in a way that he was not before.’’
Oh, so THAT is where he is HIDING!!
Yup, and the Anglo-AmeriKan Empire BROUGHT "Al-CIA-Duh" TO Iraq, huh?
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Related: Britain Moving Away From AmeriKa
Slow Saturday Special: Brits Take Stock of Iraq War
Slow Saturday Special: Britain's Bliar Admits War Crimes
Slow Saturday Special: Brown Blames U.S. For Iraq
I blame OUR PoS NEWSPAPERS most of all!!!"There’s some debate about what exactly has been found....
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No, we know exactly what it is when it is found in the newspaper.
"A man who killed a toddler when he was just 10 years old in a crime that shocked Britain was sentenced to jail yesterday for new child pornography charges....
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Related: Pentagon Perverts
Yeah, here they work for the government.
