The release of the Lockerbie bomber

[stoop]

quote:Originally posted by Colwyn

quote:Originally posted by stoop

Colwyn - sorry to say this but this was nothing to do with Scottish justice - more the fact that the UK has some serious business lined up with Libya.

Do you think that spending more time in Turkey is leading you into the Turkish national pastime of building, selling and buying conspiracy theories?

Conspiracy theories? Not sure this is one of them Colwyn. The truth will come out sooner rather than later and you will see what the UK has to gain from this release.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/gaddafi-junior-comes-out-of-the-shadows-to-take-the-credit-1775812.html

Quote from above:

"The compulsion to secure privileged access to Libya's enormous energy reserves has seen political leaders from Tony Blair to Nicolas Sarkozy get to grips with Gaddafi's bedouin roadshow. More recently Mr Brown and Mr Obama met the unpredictable autocrat on the fringes of the G8 this month. But there is little doubt that the West favours the more urbane son as its go-between with Tripoli.

In each of the major diplomatic breakthroughs that have brought Libya in from the cold and advanced it to the status of "strategic partner" to the UK, Saif al-Islam has had a decisive role. He has been at the centre of the secret accords, trade deals, compensation packages and prisoner exchanges that have marked the country's return to respectability."

[Highlander]

quote:Originally posted by Colwyn

Originally posted by Highlander

Colwyn:

....but I have been interested by the discussion and am willing to leave it in a state of respected difference.

Me too and I am perfectly willing to shake your hand on that Colwyn.

[Highlander]

Kelvin

Just one more point if I may. You have used the term "law abidding" a couple of times. To me that includes abidding with a decision that is fully in accordance with the law of the land at the time, no matter how distateful it may be to either you or me.

I fully understand and respect your point of view, but as with Colwyn and I, we obviously have different opinions which we cannot resolve.

Shall we too shake on that.

PS I think you may be totally correct that the truth will out in the coming months.

[kevin3]

H.I will shake any part of you.
We have had a discussion,not an argument and I respect yours and Colwyns views.

Just found this link.
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6073466/The-full-letter-from-the-FBI-Director-on-the-Lockerbie-bomber-release.html
 
  Kev.  

[kevin3]

It might not take months!!

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/22/gordon-brown-letter-gaddafi-lockerbie

  Pass the buck time!

[Crabbit]

Sorry Colwyn, I have to disagree with you (that`s a one off) on this occasion.
As for the "I want to be like Colwyn", he wouldn`t have said a word if you hadn`t posted first, so his post isn`t worth commenting on    

[stoop]

quote:Originally posted by kevin3

It might not take months!!

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/22/gordon-brown-letter-gaddafi-lockerbie

  Pass the buck time!

This will rumble and rumble on and Brown has played his hand well and made it look like the Scotts are to blame. It could cost them dear now that there is a possibility that the US will boycott Scotland and their goods. How much is the Whisky trade with the USA worth I wonder? And don't forget the tourist trade.

[braveheart]

And don't believe for one second that USA have no vested (and ongoing) interest in Libya's oil - they do

Politicians stink !!! (both sides of the border)  

quote:Originally posted by tony

oh and think of the lucrative building contacts in libya. I can't understand why young men are dying on a daily basis in afghanistan fighting terrorism yet we are releasing this man. I'm afraid the whole situation is about money and that is the sad truth.

[Highlander]

The boycott of whisky and the effect on the tourist trade may or may not happen Stoop.

But would you stop going to Turkey had the Turkish Government taken the decision that Macaskill did.[?]

[mike A]

Originally posted by Crabbit

Sorry Colwyn, I have to disagree with you (that`s a one off) on this occasion.
As for the "I want to be like Colwyn", he wouldn`t have said a word if you hadn`t posted first, so his post isn`t worth commenting on    

Very true Crabbit. I have posted similar views in the past, on the various hanging debates and others and know full well the futility of debating the subject with people such as your self.