JLAmber wrote:Fumanchewd wrote:Good. Just don't give him to the UK or they'll let him go for another BP deal and give him back to Libya.
Scotland, not the UK. They have a separate set of legal processes North of the border that are quite distinct from ours. He would have died in prison if he was jailed in England.
Pardon me for splitting hairs (and I could be wrong), but was the pending prison transfer deal not with the UK government and the BP pressure for the prison transfer deal to happen(right when they were attempting to get rights in Libya) directly communicated to the UK government?
The Scottish government released him on the "humanitarian" grounds that he was about to die any day, never mind the fact that the Doctor who came to that prognosis was paid by the Libyan government and he went on to live another 5 years after being given the hero's welcome. After the fact that whore of a Doctor admitted that he could live another 10-20 years.
Jack Straw stated,
"Asked whether trade was a factor in his decision to include Megrahi in a prisoner swap deal with Libya, Straw told the newspaper: “Yes ... a very big part of that. I am unapologetic about that. Libya was a rogue state. We wanted to bring it back into the fold. And yes, that included trade because trade is an essential part of it and subsequently there was the BP deal.”
Obviously, the Scottish government wanted to get rid of him and the UK was working on it from another angle as well. The Scottish government and, IMO, the UK government would have both released him, and although there is no direct evidence of this, I am quite sure that London had a heavy hand on pushing the Scotts. Subsequently Megrahi was released, BP was awarded the rights, and Jack Straw's statement stands.
"Give us a kiss, big tits."