Was The Labour Government Complicit In Release Of The Lockerbie Bomber?
You have to ask was the Labour administration an active accomplice In assisting the early release of the lockerbie bomber? According to a dossier of previously classified documents which will be published today 7th February 2011 the previous Labour government appear to be implicated in helping obtain the premature release of the Lockerbie bomber.
The newspaper the Daily Telegraph has revealed files obtained by WikiLeaks that show that Labour ministers covertly provided advice to Colonel Gaddafi's regime as to how to obtain the release of the bomber.
It is understood that the release of letters,documents,memos and minutes of meetings will show a full picture of the previous Labour government's involvement in setting free Al Megrahi.
Mr Cameron the British Prime Minisiter and Hilary Clinton the US Secretary of State have issued a joint statement in which they both "strongly agreed" that the decision to free the bomber had been a mistake.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was the only person who was convicted of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie was released from jail on compassionate grounds in August 2009.
At the time before his release it was claimed that due to his prostrate cancer he had only three months to live.
He is still very much alive nearly 18 months later.
It is understood that the documents include details of how Labour minister's serving under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were prepared to assist the Libyan regime.
The records being released by the cabinet office are believed to show up the previous Labour government's claims that it took no part in the decision which was the devolved Scottish parliament's sole resposibility.
During the evening of 21st December 1988 flight Pan Am 103 was blown to pieces in mid air and fell onto the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 259 people who were flying on the plane and 11 people who were on the ground.
Many of the passengers were travelling to be with their family's over the holidays.
The Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell has found that the previous Labour administration did 'all it could' to facilitate Libya in its appeal to the Scottish government to release Megrahi on compassionate reasons.
In a statement to MPs, David Cameron stated: 'Insufficient consideration was given to the most basic question of all - was it really right for the British government to facilitate an appeal by the Libyans to the Scottish government in the case of an individual who was convicted of murdering 270 people, including 43 British citizens and 190 Americans and 19 other nationalities? Mr Cameron went on to state 'That for me is the biggest lesson of this entire affair.
For my part I repeat, I believe it was profoundly wrong.
' Wrong it most certainly was and Alex Salmond the first Minister of the Scottish parliament is highly critical of ex Prime Minister Gordon Brown who comes out of all this as a complete hypocrite.
There can be no doubt that the previous Labour government completely lost its moral compass and sense of direction all at the same time.
The Labour party and Ed Miliband have lost the faith of the public.
The newspaper the Daily Telegraph has revealed files obtained by WikiLeaks that show that Labour ministers covertly provided advice to Colonel Gaddafi's regime as to how to obtain the release of the bomber.
It is understood that the release of letters,documents,memos and minutes of meetings will show a full picture of the previous Labour government's involvement in setting free Al Megrahi.
Mr Cameron the British Prime Minisiter and Hilary Clinton the US Secretary of State have issued a joint statement in which they both "strongly agreed" that the decision to free the bomber had been a mistake.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was the only person who was convicted of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie was released from jail on compassionate grounds in August 2009.
At the time before his release it was claimed that due to his prostrate cancer he had only three months to live.
He is still very much alive nearly 18 months later.
It is understood that the documents include details of how Labour minister's serving under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were prepared to assist the Libyan regime.
The records being released by the cabinet office are believed to show up the previous Labour government's claims that it took no part in the decision which was the devolved Scottish parliament's sole resposibility.
During the evening of 21st December 1988 flight Pan Am 103 was blown to pieces in mid air and fell onto the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 259 people who were flying on the plane and 11 people who were on the ground.
Many of the passengers were travelling to be with their family's over the holidays.
The Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell has found that the previous Labour administration did 'all it could' to facilitate Libya in its appeal to the Scottish government to release Megrahi on compassionate reasons.
In a statement to MPs, David Cameron stated: 'Insufficient consideration was given to the most basic question of all - was it really right for the British government to facilitate an appeal by the Libyans to the Scottish government in the case of an individual who was convicted of murdering 270 people, including 43 British citizens and 190 Americans and 19 other nationalities? Mr Cameron went on to state 'That for me is the biggest lesson of this entire affair.
For my part I repeat, I believe it was profoundly wrong.
' Wrong it most certainly was and Alex Salmond the first Minister of the Scottish parliament is highly critical of ex Prime Minister Gordon Brown who comes out of all this as a complete hypocrite.
There can be no doubt that the previous Labour government completely lost its moral compass and sense of direction all at the same time.
The Labour party and Ed Miliband have lost the faith of the public.
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