Released on compassionate grounds!?!?!?!??!

[Hammer]

All quite irrelevant really. The Guildford Four were released on appeal and are deemed innocent. Megrahi, on the other hand, hasn't appealed and remains as a guilty convicted criminal.

[ghanimah]

All quite irrelevant really. The Guildford Four were released on appeal and are deemed innocent. Megrahi, on the other hand, hasn't appealed and remains as a guilty convicted criminal.

Exactly, either Megrahi is guilty and so, as a mass murderer, he does not merit any compassion or he is innocent, and so he should have been freed by a successful appeal, not by compassion.

Four more bodies were driven though Wootten Basett on Thursday and two more British soldiers were killed on the same day fighting, allegedly, to prevent terrorism on the streets of Britain. On the same day, a convicted terrorist gets released on compassionate grounds. What kind of message does that send out?

I wonder though that if instead two-thirds of the victims were Scottish rather than American, the minority Scottish Government would've made the same decision? I suspect not.

[pauld]

I wonder though that if instead two-thirds of the victims were Scottish rather than American, the minority Scottish Government would've made the same decision? I suspect not.

I don't think its the numbers as such - there's no way they'd have made the same decision if the Scottish relatives of victims had been as implacably opposed to release as the US relatives were. But all the ones I've heard on radio/seen interviewed in papers etc have been saying he should be released because they don't think he did it. What they seem to want is a full inquiry. Which makes no odds whatever to your main point which I think is in line with what the Scottish relatives groups have been saying, that there's been a terrible fudge gone on here more motivated by considerations of trade/politics than justice

[china red]

The case of the USS Vincennes was very interesting to read.  Couldn't really believe that the captain of the boat received a Legion of Merit award for excellent performance several years later. 

[SwindonTartanArmy]

As a resident Sweatie, the opinion up here is 50/50. Although most of the people against it are going bonkers about the US of As over reaction to it.

At the end of the day who arethe Yanks to go around preaching to everyone about Justice? They are only geared up for revenge, not justice. tHey go around imprisoning people without trial and then torture them. And lets not forget Iran Air flight 655


Anyway,Al Megrahi's conviction was dubious at best, based on lies and dodgy evidence.

[alanmayes]

One of the best British journalists who writes on all aspects of life in the Middle East, is the
award winning Robert Fisk.This is what he has had to say on this weeks events....

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-for-the-truth-look-to-tehran-and-damascus-ndash-not-tripoli-1775813.html

[Don Rogers Shop]

Good Article but a hell of alot of that is just what he suspects.