WikiLeaks: Britain Secretly Advised Libya How to Secure Release of Lockerbie Bomber

[Hissyspit]

Source: Telegraph (UK)

WikiLeaks: Britain secretly advised Libya how to secure release of Lockerbie bomber

By Christopher Hope and Robert Winnett
Last Updated: 11:36PM GMT 31/01/2011
Ministers secretly advised Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan regime how to secure the successful early release of the Lockerbie bomber, documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph have disclosed.

A Foreign Office minister sent Libyan officials detailed legal advice on how to use Abdelbaset al-Megrahi’s cancer diagnosis to ensure he was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.

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The Libyans closely followed the advice which led to the controversial release of Megrahi – who was convicted of the murder of 270 passengers on Pan Am Flight 103 – within months of the Foreign Office’s secret intervention.

The disclosure seriously undermines British Government claims that is was not complicit in the release of al-Megrahi, and that the decision to free the convicted terrorist was taken by the Scottish Executive alone.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8294120/WikiLeaks-Britain-secretly-advised-Libya-how-to-secure-release-of-Lockerbie-bomber.html?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4d472fe517f76ce5%2C0

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Oh, that WikiLeaks!

[LiberalFighter]

1. I wonder how much they were paid to give that advice?

[FreakinDJ]

2. They got the Oil Contract

[Matilda]

5. Yep - BP had its dirty little fingers in that pie.

Denied by all concerned, of course:

Back in September last year:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-11434142

[Wilms]

3. Wonder if wiki has anything on the FBI futzin' with the evidence in that case. n/t

[mattvermont]

4. the reason the FBI had to futz the data

was that the CIA did the job to kill a couple of "rogue" CIA informants who were about to rat out the comfortable drug for weapons exchanges of the day