“The Framing of al-Megrahi”
By
Clara Heyworth
/
24 September 2009
Gareth Peirce, celebrated defense lawyer and author of the forthcoming Dispatches from the Dark Side, has written the most astonishing piece for the London Review of Books, in which she carefully lays out the framing of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, wrongfully convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. As the article progresses, and the horrifying details of the cover up accumulate, they become almost farcical in number and elaborateness.
It is, of course, now all about oil. Only a simpleton could believe that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted of responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, was not recently returned to his home in Libya because it suited Britain. The political furore is very obviously contrived, since both the British and American governments know perfectly well how and for what reasons he came to be prosecuted. More important than the present passing storm is whether any aspect of the investigation that led to al-Megrahi's original conviction was also about oil, or dictated by other factors that should have no place in a prosecution process.
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Critical Justifications; Hıstorical Occasions; International Responsabilities !
England is one contradictionaire area still with their country borders; different linguistics; absurd commonwealth realities that were irrationel ; althought as one principal responsable of world culture. The lingua english still could not be communicationel even between academiciens. Their politic regime is very open and suit to anti laiquist realisations. The situation of their some lenguages and regime are can be for historical consciencie or museumal reality protection for the next generation as example. The situation of them are very mixed as contenu and complements for their life culture practices and their understanding. The every culturel group could not be satisfied. And the all different diversity can not be together.
England is one useful country for world communicates and not emperialist and must not be hosting center of third worldist amateur scientists. UN. might produces other solutions instead of spending some idealists.
These type problems are international problems and they might left to scientist and academiciens. The anounces, advertisements or news of these problems must not be done by architectural or structural bombardments or by negrations of some ugly race-ists by causes of matterialistic continuiety of journalism. They are not correctional critical explainations. The corrections of their falses was been expected from them just at the years of 2000 as one occasional momentum.
Değer İskender (Valor Alexander)
