Mass Murdering Terrorist Released from Prison and Sent Home to Libya Out of "Compassion."

Oh yes, compassion. From the Latin "compassius." Meaning a feeling that causes otherwise intelligent people to act with unfathomable stupidity.

LINK

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FBI
Director Robert S. Mueller III has strongly condemned Scotland's
justice minister for freeing the only man convicted in the Lockerbie
bombing, saying in a letter released Saturday that his action had made
a "mockery" of justice and encouraged terrorists everywhere.

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Mueller's letter came on the heels of criticism by President Obama and
other administration officials over the decision Thursday to release
former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, who was
convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland,
in 1988, killing 270 people, most of them Americans.

Now, if he had only killed 50 or 60 people, I could see releasing him. But once a guy his triple digits, the only way he should leave prison is in a bag.

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MacAskill decided to release Megrahi on what he called
"compassionate" grounds, citing doctors' assessments that the Libyan is
dying from prostate cancer and has only a few months to live.

OH LAWDY THE TERRORIST IS GOING TO DIE BETTER MAKE HIS LAST MONTH THE BEST MONTH EVER!!!

This would make a great sitcom if it weren't so infuriating.

Blah blah blah, guy claims he's innocent, blah blah blah, mockery of justice to release him. There are no words, only :blink:

You know, Rudolph Hess was the only prisoner left in Spandau Prison for the last thirty years of his life. Despite repeated pleas from his family to have him released because of his advanced age, the UN said no. He eventually died there at age 93 under suspicious circumstances, which were never investigated, because who cares if some Nazi bastard who was responsible for the deaths of millions of people kicked the bucket with a little help from someone with a grudge?

While he killed far fewer people than Hess, they're just as dead, and their families still have to live with the loss of their loved ones. They should've just let him die in prison, instead of sending him home to his mommy.

I can't help but wonder if this is actually an attempt to ferret out his accomplices. After all, terrorists do tend to favor 'the cause' more than their own lives or that of their families; who's to say the government isn't just using him as a mole?

A lot of speculation that former Prime Minister Tony Blair applied pressure because of ongoing business dealings between Great Britain and Libya (particularly a $900 million dollar oil contract signed back in 2004, because it's easier dealing with the Libyans than it is the Russians).

Of course both Blair and the British government strongly deny any such horse trading took place.

My position: if he remained in prison, the British would have had to continue to give him medical treatment in compliance with international and British law. Now he's someone else's problem, and he's going to die a slow and agonizing death anyway.

Using him as a mole would probably be considered an invasion of his privacy or something--can't have that, now.

Spotts1701 wrote:

My position: if he remained in prison, the British would have had to continue to give him medical treatment in compliance with international and British law. Now he's someone else's problem, and he's going to die a slow and agonizing death anyway.

And you can bet he'll get the best care the Libyan government can provide, without him or his relatives spending a dime. :terri:

And to add insult to bloody fucking injury, he gets a hero's welcome upon returning to Libya. Apparently, killing 270 innocent people makes you a hero.

I...really don't get the reasoning behind that it just absolutely baffles me.

Lembech wrote:

And to add insult to bloody fucking injury, he gets a hero's welcome upon returning to Libya. Apparently, killing 270 innocent people makes you a hero.

I...really don't get the reasoning behind that it just absolutely baffles me.

People are retarded.

Lembech wrote:

And to add insult to bloody fucking injury, he gets a hero's welcome upon returning to Libya. Apparently, killing 270 innocent people makes you a hero.

I...really don't get the reasoning behind that it just absolutely baffles me.

Obivously, those lying devils from the West were holding Megrahi as a scapegoat, and the Libyans are just giving him the treatment due a returning POW.

Rabid Badger wrote:

You know, Rudolph Hess was the only prisoner left in Spandau Prison for the last thirty years of his life. Despite repeated pleas from his family to have him released because of his advanced age, the UN said no. He eventually died there at age 93 under suspicious circumstances, which were never investigated, because who cares if some Nazi bastard who was responsible for the deaths of millions of people kicked the bucket with a little help from someone with a grudge?

Not to throw mud on the subject, but didn't Hess escape/defect/get trapped in Scotland before the Final Solution or any of its ilk really took off?
Was he really aware of the scope of Hitlers anti-Semitism & how serious he was about it?

I understand the families of the people who died, but I don't think releasing him makes much of a difference for the terrorists or would-be terrorists. If he's got terminal cancer, he's probably too ill to make much more than speaking in favour of the holy war against the faithless pigs oppressing the Palestinian people, something that probably he was already doing unless his mail privileges were revoked.
When you treat terrorists humanely, people join Al Qaeda/Hamas/Al Fatah/The Islamic Brotherhood because it's obvious you're weak and scared and it's time to land the final blow. When you treat them like at Abu Ghraib, people join because they're outraged that courageous patriots are being humiliated by Jew-licking infidel monkeys. It's damned if you do, damned if you don't.

The funniest thing about it all is that he was probably innocent all along.

Here's an article from 2004: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] by Paul Foot, following up his earlier far more detailed report "Lockerbie - The flight from Justice" which you can probably find in a torrent. Paul wasn't some conspiracy nut, but a long time successful campaigner and investigative journalist (his wikipedia bio) and I read the original report at the time, and since then thought this chap innocent of the bombing.

Knorg,
a long time admirer of the late Paul Foot.

The Unoriginal wrote:

I understand the families of the people who died, but I don't think releasing him makes much of a difference for the terrorists or would-be terrorists. If he's got terminal cancer, he's probably too ill to make much more than speaking in favour of the holy war against the faithless pigs oppressing the Palestinian people, something that probably he was already doing unless his mail privileges were revoked.

Or, you know, the fact that he's dying anyway could prompt him to commit a suicide bomb run.

unskilled78 wrote:

Rabid Badger wrote:

You know, Rudolph Hess was the only prisoner left in Spandau Prison for the last thirty years of his life. Despite repeated pleas from his family to have him released because of his advanced age, the UN said no. He eventually died there at age 93 under suspicious circumstances, which were never investigated, because who cares if some Nazi bastard who was responsible for the deaths of millions of people kicked the bucket with a little help from someone with a grudge?

Not to throw mud on the subject, but didn't Hess escape/defect/get trapped in Scotland before the Final Solution or any of its ilk really took off?


Was he really aware of the scope of Hitlers anti-Semitism & how serious he was about it?

Wikipedia Article About Rudolph Hess

He didn't set out for Scotland-he was originally going to England to try and broker some sort of treaty. However, Hitler sent a couple of fighters after him, and he got shot down over Scotland, where he was taken prisoner by a farmer, who later handed him over to the British intelligence Agency.

There's good reason to believe that Hess suffered from mental illness, particularly depression over the failure of what he viewed as 'his mission.' When he did go to trial, he was only charged with 'crimes against peace' and 'conspiracy.' He was never charged with 'crimes against humanity' or 'war crimes.'

It remains unclear exactly WHY the UK kept him imprisoned after others who'd been charged at the same time he was were eventually released.

Also, there's a whole host of conspiracy theories surrounding why he came to the UK, including that he was lured there by the government.