Lockerbie
About a week ago, the man convicted of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 was released by the Scottish government and sent back home to Libya on account of his terminal prostate cancer, declared a free, but not an innocent, man.
Readers of this blog* are expected by yours truly to be savvier than most, so I trust that you’re all at least marginally aware of the argument that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was not the bomber, and that Libya was in fact in no way involved, but that, because they were a more convenient scape than the likely perpetrators hiding in Syria or Iran, and because most Westerners tend to squint when looking at Muslims enough that a Libyan is just as good as a Persian to them, and because America was about to go to war with Iraq and needed to keep certain relations (especially with Syria) relatively friendly, al-Megrahi was made to be that which he was not.
If you’re not, you might want to read this piece by Hugh Miles in the Independent on the subject. Unfortunately, he’ll probably have no further opportunity to clear his name, but it helps to know.
* If ye still remain after my especially protracted silence - I promise to get back on it in the near future!
posted by saurabh in Global Machinations, Terror | 0 Comments
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