UK released Lockerbie bomber because of fear of Gaddafi

Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan chief of state, at...Image via Wikipedia
Telegraph:

Britain feared that Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi could “cut us off at the knees, just like the Swiss”, unless the Lockerbie bomber was released, leaked WikiLeaks cables show.

Sir Vincent Fean, the UK's ambassador to Tripoli at the time, also warned that continuing to hold Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi in a prison in Scotland could have “disastrous implications for British interests in Libya”.

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jailed in 2001 for the atrocity which claimed 270 lives in 1988. He was freed on compassionate grounds in August 2009.

The warnings were contained in secret communiqués sent from US embassy staff in Tripoli in August 2009, and produced in Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine.

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Like many of the disclosures, this one merely confirms suspicions of the rationale for what was otherwise an irrational act by the Brits to release a mass murderer on the specious grounds of "compassion". It also reflects a serious lack of backbone in the face of threats from the person who more than likely ordered the mass murder. One suspects that the UK will get future threats after the success of this act of international extortion.
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