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	Aileen Orr on the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi	93 dni temu
	I write as a former resident of Lockerbie, and former pupil of Lockerbie Academy. I have listened with dismay the protestations from the US and from the FBI ‘s Robert S. Mueller. For the record, I believe Magrahi was involved in the plot and rightfully convicted, but he did not work in isolation, nor do we know what his role was. So yes, we got one, but only a cog in the wheel. I supported Kenny McAskill’s difficult decision and I thought his delivery was statesmanlike and thoughtful. Sadly, as opposition politicians do, their first thought is “taking him out.” So no support for the intellectual or humanitarian argument there then. I saw the aftermath of the Lockerbie disaster, it was hell on earth. The sight of a child’s dress fluttering on a barbed wire fence miles from the plane, still partly in its festive wrapping, a present undelivered, a life unseen, and the first shock of the massive, and they were huge, slices of fluorescent green fuselage scattered along the Lockerbie hills on the road from Langholm. Dollar bills blowing about the road like leaves, no traveller had the stomach to pick them up. But many of us believe the Lockerbie bombing would never have happened had the US navy not downed Iran Flight 655 on 3rd July 1988. This incident seems to have fallen off the radar, unlike the day the crew of the USS Vincennes spotted the civilian airliner on their equipment and, without checking further, bombed the Airbus A300 with 290 passengers, including 66 children. The flight was inside Iranian airspace as was the Vincennes. On return to the US the captain and crew were given a heroes welcome, and honoured with Combat Action Ribbons for having actively participated in ground or surface combat. It is on this act alone I have to ask, if its OK for the US to bomb innocent passengers in a civilian airliner, and on return to their country, the participants are celebrated and showered with honours, why are we forced to believe this diatribe from the US Senate and FBI when they not only supported the same act, they celebrated it? Having worked for an American company for many years I enjoyed a lot of US hospitality, it’s a fantastic country, but its agencies bully people who don’t share its point of view and has little reputation for listening. Its time it listened to Scotland. I have today (Sunday) listened to the mind-numbing Charles Wolf on BBC news as supposed US commentator. He insulted every bone of my Scots body; it is believed we are a small country and unable to make decisions of such magnitude. His arrogance knew no bounds. Shame he has not taken time to know his own country’s history, John Paul Jones, the father of the US navy was born close to Lockerbie, how would Jones have looked on the actions of the USS Vincennes? Who knows, all I see is a lot of trade agreements waiting to be signed and this process just exposed them, the welfare of the victims are a lot further down the agenda, if at all. Well, lets see who moves on Libya first, trade missions I mean, not bombs.
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	Saor Alba A Nis mówi…	93 dni temu
	What a read this should be out in the wider media
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