Did the UK trade Lockerbie bomber for oil contracts?

So let’s add up some of Kaddafi’s extortion booty for brutally prison raping EU nurses;

EU $400 million (includes Bulgaria’s $57M ransom)

French nuclear deal (+ military hardware)

EU free trade (+ political normalization)

Brand new US Ambassador + date w/ Condi

An historic handshake and UN podium w/ Obama for Ramadan

Lockerbie bomber’s release… PRICELESS

[Kaddafi learned the rehabilitation jig well under the expert tutelage of that old "necklassing" terrorist thug, Nelson Mandela.]

/Kaddafi delenda est

Terp Mole on August 22, 2009 at 9:52 AM

Prepare to have your cake frosted. Kaddafi’s victory dance in New York City next month. Naturally, Kaddafi will earn a standing ovation in New York next month at the Parliament of Thugs.

Another U.N. outrage: Gadhafi visits

In September Mr. Gadhafi will be given a world audience at — where else? — the United Nations during its annual session in New York. In fact, Gadhafi is scheduled to speak right after President Barack Obama.

This has outraged the families of Flight 103’s victims — among them, four Western Pennsylvanians who perished in the December 1988 jetliner bombing.

“I know our government is trying to get Libya back into the family of nations. I do not think that translates into welcoming a murderer,” Frank Duggan, president of the victims’ group, told The Times of London.

Yet their outrage is met by the smirk of a scoundrel. Instead of full disclosure, the “rehabilitated” Gadhafi sought first to limit Libya’s exposure to terrorist acts, then tried to get the lone Libyan agent convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdel Basset al Megrahi, out of a Scottish prison. Libya recently applied for a “compassionate release” for Mr. Megrahi, who reportedly is dying of cancer.

Gadhafi has made clear his priorities. And it’s no surprise that the United Nations of world reprobates would give him a podium. The question is, does President Obama want to be his opening act?

Judging from Obama’s willingness to shake hands with Kaddafi, I expect they’ll exchange big wet UN smooches– full on the mouth.

Terp Mole on August 22, 2009 at 10:02 AM

Is it really too much too ask that our Justice Department serve 187 arrest warrants when Kaddafi steps off his plane in New York next month?

What a grotesque irony that Kaddafi will arrive at JFK Intn’l– the Christmas 1988 destination of Clipper Maid of the Seas.

Terp Mole on August 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM

Amazed: Wonder if Libya will get its neucs back from us as part of the deal.

Well, wonder no more… that too was part of the extortion payoff in Kaddafi’s hostage extortion scheme.

French nuclear reactor deal (+ military hardware)

The payoff afforded Sarkozy’s missus an heroic photo-op jetting home with Kaddafi’s brutally raped and tortured EU nurse hostages.

/oh yes, terrorism pays… handsomely

Terp Mole on August 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM

Down the memory hole: Lockerbie bomber received exquisite care inside Scottish jail The Kaddafi cafe while the grand wizard of rehabilated terrorists Nelson Mandela lobbied tirelessly for release.

“Megrahi is all alone,” Mr Mandela told a packed press conference in the prison’s visitors’ room. “He has nobody he can talk to. It is a psychological persecution that a man must stay for the length of his long sentence all alone.”

Kaddafi even bought Megrahi’s wife and children an estate in Glasgow.

/“compassionate release” is a rancid lie

Terp Mole on August 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM

Grunchy Cranola: I supported the release of this thug on the condition that he was on his last legs, that it would improve relations with a regime that I despise but has moderated its behaviour towards the outside world, and that it would be accompanied by little fanfare. I should have known they would pull a Kuntar.

Here we see a perfect example of the dysfunctional moral compass that flew Lockerbie justice into ruin.

The oil “improved relations” secured by releasing this thug is (apparently) worth the price of inflicting this awful agony– on victims’ widows, orphans and aging parents– if only “accompanied by little fanfare.”

The shame of a cheering Libya mob– not the agony WE inflicted upon the victims’ loved ones– is all many find objectionable.

That appalling nihilistic animus is precisely what motivated this grotesque Faustian bargain.

/nemo me impune lacessit… Kaddafi delenda est

Terp Mole on August 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM

idiotarian drooled: Pretty sure the IRA was the IRA.

Not according to the IRA victims who (yes) still hold Kaddafi responsible for the IRA’s bloody atrocities. They can no longer afford to ignore the kabuki theatre of Libyan state-sponsorship.

And your moronic insinuation that ILLICIT arms shipments are (somehow) morally equivalent to Kaddafi’s LICIT Libyan state-sponsorship shows very weak reasoning skills.

idiotarian sneered: Are you saying oil isn’t worth blood?

No. I wondered how creepy you are for maintaining “improved relations” (secured by releasing this thug) are worth the price of inflicting this awful agony– on victims’ widows, orphans and aging parents– if only “accompanied by little fanfare.” Because clearly, their suffering doesn’t concern you.

idiotarian sneered: Sending him to die elsewhere won’t bring their families back.

Gee, thanks for reminding folks– as if that trite remark justifies Megrahi’s release. MacAskill’s appeasement conceit (cheapening the value of innocent blood) will only invite more terrorism against other families– as surely as rewarding Kaddafi will only embolden his jihadist proteges, imitators and competitors.

Grade: F

/dismissed

Terp Mole on August 23, 2009 at 6:52 PM