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Old 09-07-2009, 02:02   #61
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Old 09-07-2009, 04:13   #62
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/n...nd/8241393.stm

Libya's 30-year link to the IRA

Monday, 7 September 2009 10:15 UK
Links between the IRA and Libya can be traced back to 1972 when the country's leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi first praised the group as allies in a struggle against Western imperialism.

Gaddafi later helped provide the IRA with the weaponry they needed to wage an armed campaign which lasted more than 30 years and claimed more than 1,000 lives.

It is not known when the first arms shipments began, but the relationship became public knowledge in March 1973 when the Irish Navy boarded a ship called the Claudia, off the coast of Waterford.

On board, they found five tonnes of weaponry supplied by the Libyan government and veteran IRA man, Joe Cahill.
....A year later, another boat was stopped on its way to Northern Ireland
The Eksund was carrying a massive haul of arms including 1,000 AK-47 machine guns, a million rounds of ammunition, more than 50 ground-to-air missiles and two tonnes of the powerful Czech-made explosive, Semtex....
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Old 09-24-2009, 23:34   #63
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http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCan.../idUSN24480443

US rethinks plans to give Libya $2.5 million in aid

Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:24am EDT
By Arshad Mohammed

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said it is rethinking a decision to give $2.5 million in aid to Libya, including to foundations run by the Libyan leader's sons, after lawmakers on Thursday asked it to cancel the plan.

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two U.S. lawmakers said they were unwilling to give the aid because of the warm reception Tripoli recently gave a Libyan official convicted of involvement in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

They also accused Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi of showing "flagrant disrespect" for the 270 victims of the bombing during his visit to New York this week to attend the U.N. General Assembly.

"The celebration that President (Gaddafi) recently held in honor of ... the only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, showed just how little remorse (he) has for the terrorist attacks that killed 270 civilians," Rep. Nita Lowey and Rep. Kay Granger wrote in a letter obtained by Reuters.

Lowey, a New York Democrat, chairs the influential House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee that oversees funding for the State Department and U.S. foreign assistance. Granger, of Texas, is the subcommittee's top Republican.

While the State Department could reject their request, as a practical matter it is unlikely to do so because of the power that the appropriations committee has over its budget.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the department was rethinking the funding, which two sources said had included $200,000 each for two foundations run by Gaddafi's sons.

One source said one foundation promoted civil society and the other women's empowerment.

"The decision to appropriate the money was made some time ago but, in light of recent events, we will be taking another look at these decisions," Crowley said.

The "recent events" was a reference to the celebratory reception Abdel Basset al-Megrahi received on his return to Libya last month after being freed by Scottish authorities on compassionate grounds because of his terminal cancer.

'IT IS ALL OVER'?

Gaddafi's U.S. visit has upset some family members of the Lockerbie victims who resented his unsuccessful efforts to get permission to pitch a Bedouin tent he likes to stay in in Central Park and in two other sites near New York City.

On Wednesday, Gaddafi delivered a rambling 94-minute speech to the U.N. General Assembly that touched on everything from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to swine flu and denounced the powers of the U.N. Security Council, which he said should be called the "Terror Council."

....Gaddafi also said he hoped to build a new era of relations with U.S. President Barack Obama and wanted to put his nation's long conflict with the United States in the past.

"As a case, the Lockerbie question: I would say it's come to an end, legally, politically, financially, it is all over," the newspaper quoted Gaddafi as saying. "I would say, thank Allah, that this problem has been solved to the satisfaction of all parties. We all feel the pain for such a tragedy."

He also made clear his desire for his country to benefit from Western technology.

"Libya does need the technology of the advanced world," Gaddafi said. "And if Libya wishes to develop itself, it must cooperate with the developed world."
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Old 07-16-2010, 10:49   #64
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Obama's Kenyan activities called 'borderline criminal'

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Ex-prosecutor: Obama's Kenyan activities may be 'criminal'
McCarthy says Obama's foreign dealings as senator possibly illegal

In a new best-selling book connecting Islam and Obama-style socialism, a former top terrorism prosecutor chides the national media for failing to investigate Barack Obama's "borderline criminal" activities in Kenya as a U.S. senator.

Andrew C. McCarthy, the former U.S. attorney who investigated the American embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, charges that Obama interfered in Kenya's internal politics possibly in violation of the Logan Act.

The centuries-old law bars Americans who are "without authority of the United States" from conducting relations "with any foreign government ... in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States."

In "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America," McCarthy says Obama undermined U.S. relations with a strong anti-terrorism ally in an African region where al-Qaida operates. In 2006, he details in the book how Obama campaigned for a pro-communist candidate running against Nairobi's pro-American government – "in outrageous contravention of U.S. policy and, probably, federal law."

Obama spent six days barnstorming the Kenyan countryside in support of Raila Odinga, the socialist Luo who was seeking the presidency. Appearing with Odinga at campaign stops, Obama gave speeches accusing the sitting Kenyan president of being corrupt and oppressive, leaving the masses in poverty.

Obama's interference "was more than reckless," McCarthy writes. "It was borderline criminal (and that's being generous)."

Earlier, Odinga had visited Obama in the U.S. – in 2004, 2005 and 2006 – and Obama had sent an adviser, Mark Lippert {Apparently, back on active duty with the Navy}, to Kenya in early 2006 to plan a trip by the senator timed to coincide with Odinga's campaign.

Read about the plans Islam has for America!

McCarthy notes that Obama and Odinga, who named one of his children after Fidel Castro, are "leftist soulmates" whose families go way back. Their fathers belonged to the same Luo tribe – and both Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and the elder Oginga Odinga worked inside the Kenyan government as communist agitators.

There is also an Islamist connection.

On Aug. 29, 2007, Raila Odinga signed a secret Memorandum of Understanding with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya. In exchange for Muslim support, Odinga agreed, among other things, to:

* Rewrite the national constitution to install shariah as the law in all "Muslim declared regions."

* Elevate Islam as "the only true religion" and give Islamic leaders an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions."

* Establish shariah courts in every Kenyan divisional headquarters.

* Ban Christian proselytism.

* Fire the police commissioner for "allow[ing] himself to be used by heathens and Zionists" to oppress Muslims.

* Adopt Islamic dress codes for women.

* Ban alcohol and pork.

Even with strong Muslim backing, Odinga (who does business with a wealthy Saudi donor to Osama bin Laden) was defeated in the December 2007 election. But he accused the incumbent president of rigging the vote and incited his supporters to riot in protest.

Over the next month, some 1,500 Kenyans were killed and more than 500,000 displaced – with most of the violence led by Muslims, who set churches ablaze and hacked Christians to death with machetes.

All the while, Odinga was in regular communications with Obama, who publicly called for an end to the violence.

"Odinga's strategy, the extortion strategy of Islamist intimidation, worked to a fare-thee-well," McCarthy notes in his book. To appease his angry mob of supporters, he was named prime minister and allowed to share power with the president.

"With Obama's helping hand, leftists and Islamists had combined forces to overwhelm a constitutional democracy," McCarthy says, while decrying the national media's "stubborn disinterest" in the "stunning" chain of events.

The same alliance can be seen in the U.S., he says, as the Obama administration reaches out to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which according to the FBI, has a plan to infiltrate and sabotage the U.S. from within. Obama and other Alinsky "revolutionaries" are carrying out a similar plan, he maintains.

McCarthy says that while there's no evidence Obama is a practicing Muslim, he shares Muslim Brotherhood hatred for America and "the Muslim Brotherhood's sabotage strategy."

McCarthy says the administration ignores incontrovertible evidence tying Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America to Hamas and other terrorist groups. One of them, he notes, is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which claims to be a benign civil-rights organization.

But he says the recent Holy Land Foundation trial – "and the eye-popping publication of 'Muslim Mafia'" – have exposed CAIR "as a farce." Quoting from "Muslim Mafia" – which he adds is an "important book" – the former top terrorism prosecutor further litigates the case against CAIR's "Hamas-tainted leaders."

In another bombshell, McCarthy reveals that he was dropped from the White House Christmas card list following his criticism of the Bush administration's purging of the words "jihad" and "Islamic terrorism" from the official military and homeland security lexicon.

Like President Bush before him, he says President Obama fails to grasp that Islam is not a "religion of peace" but "a huge part of the problem in combating 'violent extremism,'" which is the new euphemism for Islamic terrorism.

"To be sure, the same ground was staked out by his predecessor, President Bush," McCarthy argues. "They are (both) wrong."

"The need to deal with Islam is unavoidable," he adds, "not because it's an asset, but because it's a liability that can't be written off."

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Old 07-16-2010, 13:40   #65
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What a terrible injustice to the relatives of those poor people who died on Pam Am flight 103..................... Pisses me off on how our English partners continue to f*^k us on maters such as this...............

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Old 07-19-2010, 05:18   #66
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Still in question..and a BP connection

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Hillary Clinton raises Lockerbie bomber concerns

Megrahi was released by the Scottish justice minister in August last year
The US has raised concerns about the release of the Lockerbie bomber, after the foreign secretary said the decision to free him was "a mistake".

William Hague spoke to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said Britain may wish to explain the circumstances behind Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's release.

Four US senators believe oil giant BP lobbied for the move to secure a deal with Libya.

The Scottish government said Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds.

It has denied having any contact with BP before its decision last year to release the Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing which killed 270 people, most of them Americans.

Special hearings examining Megrahi's release will be held at Capitol Hill on 29 July.

The US Senate foreign relations committee said it would ask BP officials to testify after the company admitted lobbying the British government in 2007 over a prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) with Libya.

BP confirmed it did press for a PTA because it was aware that a delay might have "negative consequences" for UK commercial interests.

But the firm said it was not involved in any discussions regarding Megrahi's release.

The bomber was released in August by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill because he was suffering terminal prostate cancer and was said to have as little as three months to live.

US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley called the Lockerbie bomber's release ''a mistake''

He had been sentenced to life imprisonment by a special Scottish court sitting in The Netherlands in 2001.

The fact that he is still alive nearly a year after his release has provoked fury among groups representing the Lockerbie victims.

Following the conversation between Mrs Clinton and Mr Hague, US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said: "The secretary indicated that it might be appropriate for the British government to communicate with Congress as well to make sure that they fully understand what transpired a year ago."

He later told the BBC: "There were very legitimate questions raised about the medical information that led to the decision.

"People have raised questions about interactions between the UK government and BP over the negotiation of a prisoner transfer agreement.

"And we will look to the British government to help us fully understand the basis to the decision that led to Megrahi's release."

Foreign Office sources told the BBC Mr Hague reiterated the government's belief that the decision to release Megrahi was a mistake.

He said both he and Prime Minister David Cameron had been opposed to the move, but that it had been a decision solely for the Scottish administration and that there was no connection between Megrahi's release and BP.

'No contact'

A Scottish government spokesman has insisted that it acted independently.

He said: "The Scottish government had no contact from BP in relation to Mr Al-Megrahi.

The Pan Am jumbo jet exploded over Lockerbie, killing 270 people
"The issues being raised in the United States at present regarding BP refer to the Prisoner Transfer Agreement negotiated by the governments of the UK and Libya, and therefore have nothing to do with the decision on compassionate release which is a totally different process, based on entirely different criteria.

"We were always totally opposed to the prisoner transfer agreement negotiated between the UK and Libyan governments.

"The memorandum that led to the PTA was agreed without our knowledge and against our wishes."
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Old 07-19-2010, 07:09   #67
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Obama spent six days barnstorming the Kenyan countryside in support of Raila Odinga,…

There is also an Islamist connection.

On Aug. 29, 2007, Raila Odinga signed a secret Memorandum of Understanding with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi…
http://www.eakenya.org/AAEAKUpdate/RAILA_MUSLIM_MOU.pdf

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=afd_1223347895

Friends of Obama contributed around $$ 835,000 USD, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi contributed a large sum as well…

http://solomonsstables.org/writings/...nancepaper.pdf

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Hillary Clinton raises Lockerbie bomber concerns
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it - BP ?

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Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ie-bomber.html


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White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi

July 26, 2010

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.
Source > http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1225896741041

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It has been a year, and he's still celebrating
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There was brief mention in the British press concerning some "regret" concerning the terminology used to describe the condition. Accusation of some complicity in the prognosis...and actions immediately following.

The dangers of an MD declaring an absolute.

If this were anyone else it would be reason to celebrate.

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Lockerbie bomber's family to sue for false imprisonment and neglect, says Gaddafi



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Colonel Gaddafi last night revealed the family of the Lockerbie bomber is *preparing a multi-million pound *compensation claim against *Britain for false imprisonment and medical neglect.

The Libyan dictator said the case against 58-year-old Abdelbaset al-Megrahi had ‘been fabricated and created by’ Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

His threat of legal action will outrage families of Lockerbie victims, already furious the former secret serviceman remains alive and living in Tripoli more than a year after he was released from jail in Scotland on the grounds that he had only a few months to live.

Gaddafi insisted that CIA agents – not Libya – had been behind the 1988 terrorist atrocity, which killed 270, a wild theory already advanced in a controversial documentary and a number of books.

‘These are the people who created this conspiracy,’ said Gaddafi, referring to the alleged role of former prime minister Baroness Thatcher and ex-U.S. President Mr Reagan in the life sentence al-Megrahi received for blowing up the Pan Am plane.

‘The charges directed towards Libya were based on unfounded evidence in an attempt to weaken the Libyan Revolution and limit its resources and abilities,’ he added.

Colonel Gaddafi, who was speaking to students at the London School of Economics (LSE) via a video-link, confirmed al-Megrahi remained ‘very ill’ with cancer.

‘He was released because he was considered dead, and yet he was still alive,’ said Gaddafi.

‘His health was not looked after in prison. He didn’t have any periodic examination. I wish him longevity.

‘After he passes away his family will demand compensation because he was deliberately neglected in prison.’

Libyan diplomatic officials who attended the LSE talk said that, based on similar cases, the *compensation could run into many millions of pounds.

Last night’s speech was said to have been ‘facilitated’ by Saif al-Gaddafi, the Libyan leader’s second son and likely heir, who has employed a PR company to present the face of a modern reforming state. *Saif has a doctorate from the LSE and a home in London.

The Foreign Office said it was studying the dictator’s remarks before it issued a formal response.

But last night Tory MPs said the prospect of al-Megrahi’s family launching a claim would add insult to injury for the bereaved.One, Douglas Carswell, said: ‘Legal action of this kind would be grotesquely offensive to those who lost loved ones.’
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sadly...
...the "mercy" that some may be hoping to project will be lost on the culture we are so desperately trying to appease.
Only the gullible believe that what has been done will be seen as an act of mercy by islam.

This was an act of weakness by the west and a victory for the faithful.
Praise be allah



Godspeed to the innocent that have fallen to these savages.
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