JohnBM:Liberal » al-Megrahi http://www.johnbm.com Liberal Musings from the Calder Valley Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:27:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 US and UK right to be appalled by al-Megrahi welcome http://www.johnbm.com/2009/08/21/us-and-uk-right-to-be-appalled-by-al-megrahi-welcome/ http://www.johnbm.com/2009/08/21/us-and-uk-right-to-be-appalled-by-al-megrahi-welcome/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:24:27 +0000 JohnBM http://www.johnbm.com/?p=356 keep reading]]> Although I think it was still right for al-Megrahi to released on compassionate grounds and sent home to die, the scenes of ‘jubilation’ on landing in Libya were wholly inappropriate.

Even if you think he is innocent of the bombing of Flight 103 the scenes of celebration, albeit limited to a couple of hundred people at the airport, were unacceptable.

Compassion for the families of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing is equally important as compassion for the family of a dying man.

There is nothing to celebrate in this very sad episode.

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