August 21

New York Times

Anger Grows Over Hero’s Welcome for Libyan Convict

Hero’s welcome for Lockerbie Bomber that killed at least 270 innocent people. Libayan Government headed by Muammar Gaddafi extended a hero welcome for the militant responsible for bombing Boeing Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988. Libya is always a staunch supporter of exporting terrorisiom to other countries. It used its oil surplus income for training and arming the militants who wrecked havoc during 70’s and 80’s.. He was Osama Bin Laden of 70’s and 80’s. Many would have forgotten him. Many innocent leaves have been lost because of him

It is rumored that British released him because of commercial and diplomatic interests.
Politicians are all alike world over.

Gaurdian

A Downing Street source said that the decision to release Megrahi was made by the Scottish government alone, and called on the Libyans "to act with sensitivity around Megrahi".


Aljazeera

But Guma el Gamaty, a Libyan writer and political scientist in London, said al-Megrahi's appeal would have been "very important.

'Political motivations'
"It would have revealed a lot of new information. But a lot of parties were not keen for it to go ahead because it would have shown new evidence which would probably reflect that al-Megrahi was not the culprit or at least not the main culprit.

"The appeal might have shown also that there has been manipulation of evidence ... so I think all parties had an interest for that not to go ahead including the British and American authorities."
"All the signs are there that there has been a political deal that has been carefully crafted by all the political parties involved I think," he said.