F*ck Libya
Five days after the fact, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has offered his first public comments on the controversial release of convicted terrorist Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who was serving a life sentence in a Scottish prison for his role in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Mind you, Brown didn’t specifically address al-Megrahi’s release – he merely said he was “repulsed” by the “hero’s welcome” that the terrorist received upon returning home to his native Libya.
“Repulsed …”
Hmmmm … wonder what the leader of the country that suffered the most from this attack (that would be America) had to say about this whole thing?
“Highly objectionable,” was U.S. President Barack Obama’s response.
Wait …highly objectionable!? Highly Objectionable!? That’s all you got?
Citing al-Megrahi’s prostate cancer, Scottish authorities inexplicably released him into “Libyan custody” last week, at which point he was cheered by throngs of adoring Libyans as he stepped off of the plane in Tripoli.
How sweet.
Supposedly under house arrest, al-Megrahi will be allowed to hang out with his family before he dies – a courtesy that obviously wasn’t extended to the 270 people (mostly Americans) he helped murder twenty-one years ago in Lockerbie, Scotland.
Geez … what a great message this whole situation sends to aspiring Islamic terrorists … not only do you get hundreds of virgins after you die (cough), but apparently the government that convicts you of mass murder will give you three hots and a cot for two decades before allowing you to return to your family and countrymen as a conquering hero.
Of course, after watching all the celebrations that broke out in the Muslim world following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America, this sort of response isn’t surprising.
These people hate America, and they worship people who kill Americans.
The only question is how long “the most powerful nation in the world” is going to tolerate it?
Update – What irony. While people who blow up planes are being released by our “allies” in the war on terrorism, America is investigating whether or not dunking people underwater is a crime.
Comments
By CNSYD on August 25th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
In the old days of Great Britain you can bet things would have been different if such a situation occurred under PM Churchill. Of course had the terrorist been tried in a British court of that era, the judge would have donned a black cloth when he pronounced sentence and Albert Pierrepoint (the famous hangman) would have been called. End of story.
By nolin on August 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Obama is projecting weakness.
If we had a Republican president, the Brits/Scots never would never consider releasing this terrorist.
Besides, we’re emptying GITMO and sending the “dentainees” to tropical paradises.
Appeasement fails every time.
By Karla M. McGowan on August 25th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
When I heard Lybia was on the United Nations Security Panel I was dumbfounded. Lybia, seriously (Lybia is a terrorist Country). Hell they don’t even try to hide it.
By Joy Reed on August 25th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I understand having compassion for people. However, terrorists are brainwashed, mentally unstable, and dangerous..
By Mike on August 25th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
This is where we are in our current “War on Terror” (if we’re even calling it that this week). Weak.
Hate him irrationally if you like, but Bush understood the threat that radical Islam posed (and still poses) to the West.
Maybe kissing up to them will work out for us; historically it’s been gangbusters.
By CNSYD on August 25th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Predictions are that due to low birth rates among Christians in France and Great Britain as compared to the soaring birth rates of Muslim immigrants in those countries that those countries will become Islamic countries in a generation without a shot being fired.
By rebel on August 25th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Welcome to Eurabia. Britain is long gone. Between their ‘hate speech’ laws, their unchecked immigration, and their socialism, UK is dead. Apparently, they are no longer a steadfast partner in our common war against Islamic terrorism, even as their soldiers are dying in Afghanistan. Reagan sorted out Lybia years ago. And due to a lack of testicular fortitude, leftst brainwashing about ‘human rights,’ and the baby boomer generation and their nonsense, this is what we’ve got.
So I guess he has the same type of cancer that the terrorist supporter Lynn Stewart has, you know, the kind where you don’t die, but reach a ripe old age.
By vance on August 25th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Eurabia? Heck what about Ameriabia? Our own Obama has decided not to wage war on terrorists but to wage war on the CIA. Yes, indeed! Prosecuting the same courageous souls who have labored to protect us against fanatical, murderous jihadis.
Apparently Obama sees more evil in a CIA agents faking an execution than a jihadist flying planes in the Twin Towers and killing 3,000 unarmed, innocent Americans.
By Jayne on August 25th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Folks – there are serious minded people who have serious doubts about the guilt of al-Megrahi. He was convicted based on 1 witness identifying him (long after the fact) of purchasing a shirt at a store in Cyprus. British intelligence found remnants of a similar shirt wrapped around the bomb material. But that’s it, that was all they had on the guy. And yet – there could have been other shirts sold out of that store, no one knows for sure. Mr. al-Megrahi has always proclaimed his innocence, he has been pursuing an appeal and was scheduled to be heard in court soon, except that he was released early on the grounds of mercy. The other defendent in the case was found innocent.
Most in Europe no longer believe al-Megrahi was involved. The construction of the bomb was exactly like the construction of bombs going off that year that came out of Syrian terrorist cells. Google the man’s case, look at the articles from outside the United States. The investigators originally pursued that theory but chose to focus on Libya. The celebrations in Libya are for al-Megrahi’s release, because they believe he was railroaded at trial, similar to the way Eric Volz was railroaded in Nicaragua’s courts. They are not celebrating the act of terrorism, they are celebrating the release of a man they believe to be innocent.
I’d like to see the investigation’s files opened to the public so we can all make educated judgments, instead of stupid comments like boycott Scotland because one ministerial judge chose mercy (a Christian value, BTW.
By CNSYD on August 25th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Ameriabia will take longer than what is happening in Europe. Yes the white birth rate is too low to sustain the white population and the Muslim birth rate is high. The kicker we have is that the Hispanic birth rate is such that it slows down the Muslins from gaining a majority. They may speak Spanish but we do share a Christian religion.
By Mike on August 25th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Jayne- I’ll give you the weaknesses in the case (although he was convicted, so appeals should run through the courts- not political channels), but no serious minded person believes for an instant that the remediation of a legal injustice is what they were celebrating when he arrived in Libya. I checked out the coverage on al Jazeera, and it was hard to swallow.
By NoToObama on August 25th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I second that . . . F*uck Libya! Obama should take his negro self over there and take care of business. Instead, he is too damn busy vacationing! Meanwhile, his lackies are interrogating the CIA! What a major LOSER!
By rebel on August 25th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Jayne, this isn’t about the release of an innocent man as the New York Times would frame it, and yes I read article after article. He was clearly used as a pawn, first sold out by his own Libyan government for western favors, namely the dropping of U.N. sanctions. So supposing he is innocent, why are cutting bad deals with these shitty regimes? We cannot send the message that if atacked, just send any old schmuck over to us to appease our public’s demand for justice, its just a charade and we’ll even let them go after everyone forgets about it. While the guilty get away with murder and continue the jihad. Just like we are doing with Khalid Sheik Muhammad and 9/11. He should be dead by now. We managed to execute McVeigh, swiftly. The only approach the west should have is to fight terror with total committment, and it needs to be unwavering and lightning fast. Attack us? You’re dead. Plot to attack us? You die in prison. And CNSYD, a strategic partnership with all Christian nations and Israel is the only way we’ll remain strong, so Feliz Navidad amigo.
By Mike on August 25th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
USDOJ coming after CIA folks now (after years of “investigations” and lack of prosecution) is a purely political play to BHO’s hard left cronies, who are a bit put out with him these days. I think he underestimates the animus this will create within the moderate mainstream, since the people he’ll be trying to prosecute/ruin are simply mid-level careerists who were doing a) what they were told to do; and b) what was legal and within policy at the time.
The Agency is on fire right now, and to say this latest attack from within has effected morale would be the understatement of the year. To all the moderates who swung to Obama and “change,” I hope these are the changes you were hoping for…
By Earl Capps on August 26th, 2009 at 10:46 am
If a terrorist is suffering from cancer, then lock and load … I’ve got your mercy right here.
By Creeping Sharia on August 26th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Libya recruited brother of U.S. intel chief and major U.S. news media to help Gadhafi’s image in U.S.
Link: http://tr.im/x3hl
By David Howard on August 26th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
The FBI polygraphers will clean-up this mess.
Google “Quadri-Track ZCT”
By FRANKS on August 27th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Well lets hope its the end of Salmond now and the snp . who hate england.
By SAS on August 27th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Most Libyans genuinely believe that Megrahi was innocent. The evidence used to convict him was largely circumstantial, and the second appeal in his case, which could have led to evidence casting doubt on his guilt, was dropped. So the notion that he could have been framed for vested political interests is not entire impossible, and even many British relatives of the Lockerbie victims now support his release.
The decision to release him was one made by a Scottish court, which is independent from the governments of the US and the UK, so the Obama administration cannot receive any blame or credit for this release.
The Obama administration is within its rights to prosecute CIA officials who were responsible for the shocking abuses of the Bush administration, from rampant torture in secret jails, to indefinite detention, to extraordinary rendition, to the crackdown on civil liberties. Many of the people tortured in places like Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram were innocent, so terrorism per se is far from the only scapegoat for these gross excesses.
The most amusing reading among the above comments is that Europe is on the verge of turning into “Eurabia” due to Muslim immigration. In fact the converse is true – most immigration to Europe is non Muslim, Muslims constitute barely 4 percent of the European Unions population despite decades of large scale immigration, and demographic trends show birthrates amongst second and third generation European Muslims to be comparable to the host societies.
Then again, if neocons want to delude themselves with nonsensical notions of a Muslim “takeover” of Europe, they may remember than many of the less pro Western sections of Muslim societies may see their views as a compliment – just like the 90 year old man who was delighted to be accused of siring a child !
By Calhoun Fawls on September 1st, 2009 at 6:33 am
Obama’s pathetic perfomance on his vist to the UK earlier this year has had its consequences. He have the PM dvds the PM could not play. He gave Her Majesty and IPOD loaded with videos of his speeches. I know most people don’t get the insult, but the Brtish officials at the highest levels did.
By funny on September 1st, 2009 at 6:55 am
Jayne – Where is the “mercy” shown to the victims of Lockerbee? Extreemist’s show no mercy and yet expect it for themselves. But in actuallity they USE the fact that the “western” civilizations WILL show mercy which is their standard to show the weakness of our civilization. Dont forget which part of the world chops off hands of thieves, beheads criminals, etc. And yet they want mercy – to them mercy = weakness.
Yet do you cry for the woman who is to be stoned for drinking a beer? (Indonesia). No your tears are for a convicted bomber, they are for the terrorist who attack your country. I am quite sure had anyone survived the 9/11 crash you would have wanted to show mercy to those terrorists too. Mercy = weakness.
There was more evidence to convict that Lockerbee terrorist than there was to convict most DUI suspects.
By David Howard on September 1st, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Watch this video …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7FNGWsjj_Y