What's a little "hosing" amongst friends.....
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:19 pm
U.K. Pressured Scots to Release Lockerbie Bomber Out of Concern for Oil Deal, Report Finds
Fear of "commercial warfare" from Libya led the British government to pressure Scotland to free the convicted Lockerbie bomber last year, reads a report being released Tuesday by four U.S. senators.
The lengthy report, which calls on the British and Scottish governments to apologize for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's release, concludes that a $900 million oil deal with Libya ultimately paved the way for the Scottish justice system to free al-Megrahi in August 2009.
The report says that faulty medical analysis was used to justify his release on "compassionate" grounds, a decision described as a crass component of a complicated trade relationship between the United Kingdom and Libya.
"The U.K. government played a direct, critical role in al-Megrahi's release," the report states. "The U.K. knew that in order to maintain trade relations with Libya, it had to give into political demands."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12 ... z18ls1Ke3c
Then you throw in a little BP and the Gulf Oil "Spill"?
You add it up....and ya find out that yer "friends" are slicker than deer guts on a door knob.......
Old Pudfark sez: " Friendship....the multi-viscosity....the lend-lease type.... "
Fear of "commercial warfare" from Libya led the British government to pressure Scotland to free the convicted Lockerbie bomber last year, reads a report being released Tuesday by four U.S. senators.
The lengthy report, which calls on the British and Scottish governments to apologize for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's release, concludes that a $900 million oil deal with Libya ultimately paved the way for the Scottish justice system to free al-Megrahi in August 2009.
The report says that faulty medical analysis was used to justify his release on "compassionate" grounds, a decision described as a crass component of a complicated trade relationship between the United Kingdom and Libya.
"The U.K. government played a direct, critical role in al-Megrahi's release," the report states. "The U.K. knew that in order to maintain trade relations with Libya, it had to give into political demands."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12 ... z18ls1Ke3c
Then you throw in a little BP and the Gulf Oil "Spill"?
You add it up....and ya find out that yer "friends" are slicker than deer guts on a door knob.......
Old Pudfark sez: " Friendship....the multi-viscosity....the lend-lease type.... "
