Families of the victims of the infamous 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing are outraged that the Libyan man responsible for killing 270 people -- most of them Americans -- may soon be released.Maybe it's just me, but it seems to me that Mrs. Cohen has a point here.
Officials in Scotland said Thursday they are considering early release for Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, who is the sole person convicted in the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. The former Libyan secret service agent, who is serving a life sentence in a Scottish prison, has terminal cancer and could be freed as early as next week on compassionate grounds -- much to the dismay of the U.S. State Department, which said Thursday al-Megrahi should remain in jail.
"It's absolutely grotesque and hideous," said Susan Cohen of Cape May Court House, N.J., whose 20-year-old daughter, Theodora, was aboard the London-to-New York flight.
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"We have had nothing you would call justice for the mass murder of 270 people -- the worst terrorist attack before 9/11. And this has nothing to with compassion -- it's all about oil," Cohen told FOXNews.com.
She said Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi will feel vindicated if al-Megrahi is allowed to return to Libya -- and that the U.S. and other countries will do little to intervene because of oil interests in the Middle East.
"The powers of the world believe that Qaddafi has to be pacified, and part of that has to do with al-Megrahi's release," Cohen said. "The man is a tyrant, but he has oil."
We have endured cries of "No Blood For Oil" since the Iraq war started over 5 years ago, and that was one of the catchphrases of those persons of the Liberal persuasion who demanded out support of the "Bush Lied, People Died" school of thought.
Yet here, in the early days of what seems likely to prove the most Liberal administration since FDR, a friendly government appears to be willing to release a proven terrorist and mass murderer .. and one cannot help wondering it this may just be an attempt to achieve the "most favorite nation" status in regards to a trumped-up despot of the middle east.
Muammar al-Qaddafi (the infamous terrorist-supporter, agent of terrorism, supporter of Arab Nationalism, supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, author of the 1986 Berlin Discotheque Bombing and the terrorist bombing of the 1988 Pan Am 103 flight explosion over Lockerbie Scotland (which killed 270 people and led to international sactions) and the 1987 bombing of French Flight 772 which lead to a further 170 deaths... is not a nice man.
The West has no reason to love him, or his agents.
Yet here we see that The Brits is prepared to release one of his terrorist agents "on compassionate grounds.
How much "commpassion" has Qaddafi -- or his agents -- shown the West?
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