Libyan rebels says won’t deport Lockerbie bomber

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2011/August/international_August1401.xml§ion=international

(AP)

28 August 2011

TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan rebel government will not deport the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, its justice minister said Sunday.

New York senators on Aug. 22 asked the Libyan transitional government to hold Abdel-Baset Al Megrahi fully accountable for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people.

But the transitional government Justice Minister Mohammed Al Alagi told journalists in Tripoli that the request by American senators had ‘no meaning’ because Al Megrahi had already been tried and convicted.

‘We will not hand over any Libyan citizen. It was Gaddafi who handed over Libyan citizens,’ he said, referring to the government’s decision to turn Al Megrahi over to a Scottish court for trial.

[yourout]

1. Ok....just put a bullet in him and call it even.

[LeftishBrit]

2. I would like to see the REAL main culprits brought to justice.

Megrahi probably played only a peripheral role, at most.

[Cleita]

3. Right you are.

I'm almost certain the Colonel was at the bottom of it all.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Bull!! he was Waltzed ,and not to smart of. the Libyans that need Democratic Friends

[former9thward]

7. Interesting how you call setting a bomb to be a "peripheral role, at most"

He executed hundreds of American and Scottish citizens. But I knew he would find some apologists.

[Vattel]

4. They are correct.

He was tried and convicted. So what would be the point of handing him over?

[orpupilofnature57]

6. War on Terrorism.

[former9thward]

8. He was not tried and convicted in Libya.

Or did you forget that. Apparently you wish to ignore international rules of law. Murder in some other country and get away with it.

[Vattel]

10. Wasn't he tried and convicted in Great Britain?

[Denzil_DC]

11. He was tried at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands

He was tried under a heavily modified form of Scots Law (modified because that's how the US wanted to play it, agreeing to be bound by the verdict) because the plane was blown up in British airspace and came down on Scottish territory - a town called Lockerbie.

The Wikipedia article's as good a place as any to start if anyone wants to get up to speed with it all - if you follow the links, they stack up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelbaset_al-Megrahi

Here's another site: http://www.justiceformegrahi.com/

Signatories include Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Desmond Tutu.

[Denzil_DC]

9. Already being discussed on DU

here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4976673

Includes many links to evidence Megrahi was framed.