In the current western mood of coddling terrorists and pandering to tyrants, the perversions by now appear endless. On “compassionate grounds,” Scotland has just allowed the terminally ill Libyan terrorist, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, to return to Libya. Convicted of murder in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. Scotland, al-Megrahi was flown home Thursday to a hero’s welcome, transported by private jet, and met by Saif Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi — who along with his international terror sprees in years past has tyrannized Libya for 40 years.
If you’d like to learn more about the freed terrorist, al-Megrahi, and why Gaddafi might be so pleased to have him back, there’s an illuminating article on Forbes.com, written just before al-Megrahi’s release: “Don’t Let The Lockerbie Bomber Go Free.”
The author, Mohamed Eljahmi, had an older brother, Fathi Eljahmi, who was Libya’s most prominent democratic dissident. I say “was,” because after five solid years of imprisonment by Gaddafi, Fathi Eljahmi died this past April. There was no compassion shown by Gaddafi of any kind. Isolated much of the time, held in filthy conditions, incarcerated for a long stretch in a Libyan “psychiatric” facility, Fathi Eljhami was deprived of adequate medical care, and blocked from any direct communication with the outside world. He deserved a hero’s salute from both the democratic world and his fellow Libyans, but Gaddafi saw to it that from the day Eljahmi was arrested in 2004 until the day he died in April, 2009, he was never seen or heard in public again.
Gaddafi, however, has been living it up as the “rehabilitated” ruler of Libya. And next month he is expected to turn up at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where on the opening day of the debate, Sept. 23, he is currently listed as the next speaker in line after President Barack Obama. At the same UN gathering, Gaddafi will have even more to celebrate — Libya, in the person of one of Gaddafi’s former foreign ministers, Ali Treki, will take over the 2009-2010 presidency of the UN General Assembly. What’s next for Gaddafi and his henchmen? The Nobel Prize?
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1. David W. Lincoln:Those companies with do business with Libyan companies, you will be hauled into the court of public opinion and
you will be asked this question: Why are strengthening man’s inhumanity to man?
After all, Libya is not a bastion of openness. For, as long as there are dissidents, it belongs in the same category as the Beijing Politburo, the mullahs of Iran, Hugo Chavez, and other deformed souls, such as Putin.
You see, what is dished out by the Sons of Allah, is also dished out by those who would have a hard time being labelled Muslim.
Aug 21, 2009 - 9:14 am 2. jasonbradyut:What, all we all of a sudden giving out FREE Lunches? Since when??? Under what premise? Did this guy learn his lesson? I doubt he would have changed his actions if he knew he would have gone to jail. These people don’t care, but only to KILL America. They hate us…helllloooooo!!! Wake up people.
Aug 21, 2009 - 9:48 am 3. David W. Lincoln:Which companies would be on the list of those who transact business with Libyan based companies?
I’d appreciate such knowledge, Claudia.
Thank you.
Aug 21, 2009 - 2:16 pm 4. Lisa:Even though he is dying,he should not be trusted and he should still be monitored.
Aug 21, 2009 - 8:44 pm 5. Hicham:My problem with that decision is siimply “where is the truth” after 20 years as I elaborated over my blog. Nevertheless, I didn’t enjoy at all the ‘hero welcome’ for the man in his home. I salut the sarcasm in the last part of your post regarding “Noble Prize”
Aug 22, 2009 - 4:48 am 6. Dubrovnov:Does al-Megrahi really have terminal prostate cancer?
Aug 22, 2009 - 11:19 pm 7. Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Breaking the Springs:No doubt his death will be announce in the not too distant future, but will he really be dead?
I am not one of those people who see a conspiracy behind every event, but count me as highly skeptical about this one.
[...] (See also Soeren Kern and Claudia Rosett.) [...]
Aug 24, 2009 - 6:53 am 8. MartinW:From UK: Do not, for one minute, regard this as an exclusively Scottish parliamentary decision(they do not have a “government”, by the way). It is very clear from mettings and minutes and e-mails that the decision to free Megrahi came from the top of the UK Government – prime minister Gordon Brown, and his deputy Mr “Lord” Mandleson. The bottom line is Trade.
Aug 24, 2009 - 9:23 am 9. Steynian 376 « Free Canuckistan!:[...] INJUSTICE over Lockerbie– Jerusalem Post, by David Horovitz; Libyan Grotesqueries …. [...]
Aug 24, 2009 - 12:10 pm 10. Sharpshooter:My wife and I were scheduled to go to Scotland next spring (many of her relatives are there).
Well, cancel that – we’ll stick to email and video/picture exchanges.
Aug 24, 2009 - 4:35 pm