Comments on: My thoughts on Lockerbie ‘bomber’ release http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/08/20/my_thoughts_on_lockerbie_bomber_release Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LeedsLad http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/08/20/my_thoughts_on_lockerbie_bomber_release#comment-13871 LeedsLad Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:12:48 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/?p=2057#comment-13871 The people who welcomed him like a star and those complaining are no better than each other. I hope this dies down quickly, or it will be one hell of an embarrassment for all people involved. The people who welcomed him like a star and those complaining are no better than each other. I hope this dies down quickly, or it will be one hell of an embarrassment for all people involved.

]]> By: ali http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/08/20/my_thoughts_on_lockerbie_bomber_release#comment-13824 ali Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:58:14 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/?p=2057#comment-13824 I am not sure how true this is, but I heard one of the British victims' father on the radio a few days ago (Five live). He was saying that he was 100% convinced that this guy is innocent and that there was a cover-up. He pointed to the fact that there was a break-in at Heathrow at the exact time when the baggage for that flight was there, this information witheld at the trial. I also heard something about the Maltese witness how identified Megrahi being paid $$$ by the CIA. As I said, these are things I heard on the radio, I am not sure how true they are. Personally, I have no sympathy for Megrahi - after all he member of Qaddaffi's secret police. Imagine how many wrongul imprisonments/extra-judicial killings him and his associates have been involded in? I am not sure how true this is, but I heard one of the British victims’ father on the radio a few days ago (Five live). He was saying that he was 100% convinced that this guy is innocent and that there was a cover-up. He pointed to the fact that there was a break-in at Heathrow at the exact time when the baggage for that flight was there, this information witheld at the trial. I also heard something about the Maltese witness how identified Megrahi being paid $$$ by the CIA. As I said, these are things I heard on the radio, I am not sure how true they are.

Personally, I have no sympathy for Megrahi - after all he member of Qaddaffi’s secret police. Imagine how many wrongul imprisonments/extra-judicial killings him and his associates have been involded in?

]]> By: Indigo Jo http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/08/20/my_thoughts_on_lockerbie_bomber_release#comment-13807 Indigo Jo Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:43:08 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/?p=2057#comment-13807 DP: As-Salaamu 'alaikum, I just watched it and he didn't really bounce - he walked pretty slowly, but with no great difficulty, I admit. I would have thought his progress would have been a bit more painful given where his trouble is (assuming it's not been removed along with other bits of his anatomy as is common with treatment for prostate cancer). Then again, I hardly think they'd risk another Ernest Saunders / Pinochet episode and cancer is not hard for medical experts to quantify. He was in British prison custody so I'm sure he couldn't insist on "friendly" doctors. DP: As-Salaamu ‘alaikum, I just watched it and he didn’t really bounce - he walked pretty slowly, but with no great difficulty, I admit. I would have thought his progress would have been a bit more painful given where his trouble is (assuming it’s not been removed along with other bits of his anatomy as is common with treatment for prostate cancer). Then again, I hardly think they’d risk another Ernest Saunders / Pinochet episode and cancer is not hard for medical experts to quantify. He was in British prison custody so I’m sure he couldn’t insist on “friendly” doctors.

]]> By: DP http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/08/20/my_thoughts_on_lockerbie_bomber_release#comment-13800 DP Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:17:03 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/?p=2057#comment-13800 Salam alaikoum I too am not convinced he is fully guilty. I think he was some kind of fall guy or patsy with at best a tangential connection. And I sound like a horrid fishwife here but that vid of him bouncing up the stairs to his plane- I have seen end stage cancer patients attempt walking. They don't do stairs, at least not like that. Moving on...This whole case makes me sad- no justice was really served, they never caught the real bad guy. Salam alaikoum I too am not convinced he is fully guilty. I think he was some kind of fall guy or patsy with at best a tangential connection. And I sound like a horrid fishwife here but that vid of him bouncing up the stairs to his plane- I have seen end stage cancer patients attempt walking. They don’t do stairs, at least not like that. Moving on…This whole case makes me sad- no justice was really served, they never caught the real bad guy.

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