There's been a great backlash about the decision to release the Lockerbie Bomber to go home to Libya to die. Here is an interesting article in The Times today dealing with the political and financial background to this decision. Whoever doubted that there was a hidden agenda behind all this will be sickened by the hypocrasy, lies and obfuscation if this article is to be believed.
It seems that while all the protest statements from the U.S. were being made, Senator John McCain " reported on Tuesday via Twitter, the instant internet messaging site, that he had met Gadaffi, whom he described as “an interesting man”. McCain was reported by the Libyan news agency to have praised Gadaffi’s peace-making efforts in Africa and to have called for expanded US ties with Libya. Exxon and Chevron, the American oil giants, are among companies vying for lucrative new exploration contracts".
The greed for oil, bloody oil, is responsible for so much death and suffering. Today, I've had it with the news. I'll go and tend to garden.
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4 comments:
Couldn't agree more. I've always suspected that we were never told the truth about Al Megrahi; the evidence against him was almost non-existent. Not that this is any consolation to the relatives of all those who died. Now I guess we'll never know. And, of course, Gaddafi was going to milk the release for all it was worth. Did anyone really suppose that he would not?
Interesting to compare, however, the speed with which Al Megrahi's so called "compassionate release" was dealt with and the years it took the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs, to be released on compassionate grounds. Yes, we all know that Biggs was a villain and the train guard was injured but Biggs didn't blow up a plane and kill 270 people. Or kill anyone. No oil involved either but that, I am sure, is of no significance whatsoever.
Of course Libyan's oil is of the best quality...and now the world is boycotting Scotch whiskey, it would be great if it really made an economic dent. Interests, nothing else. People's lives dont count.
Yes, go to your garden, and enjoy touching the earth and the plants.
Thank you both for visiting. Good to have your input to soothe me.
There is always something beyond what they want us to see and hear. Unfortunately these kind of news don't shock me anymore...
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