It Happened In... Lockerbie - 20 Aug 07 - Part 1

The second episode of our four part series is the story of Pan Am flight 103 and the events of 21 December, 1988.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• scotland
• britain
• uk
• Happened
• Lockerbie
• Pan
• Am
• Flight
• 103
• 1988
• aljazeera
• jazeera
• crash
• bomb
• libya

[sormu16]

timpal wrote:

"But it's another thing to purposely place a bomb in Mohammedan vengeance. "

but also:

"The two best pieces of grafiti that I saw at Ground Zero NYC were: Kill all Muslims, and Semites."

Seems like you are not so different from the bomber?

[myta330ify]

why does everyone blame scotland...we took the right decision...do you americans think revenge is gained from someone rotting in jail cell as he wouldn't serve the full sentence anyway...we do regret the welcome Megrahi got with the saltaire but we stand by our decision and i stand as proud scot



[davedavid86]

The Americans should have gone into Libya and dismantled Gaddafi's murderous regime once they knew Libya was responsible for blowing up Pan Am 103. They needed the same hard action that they took against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq after 3000 people died in the 9/11 attacks. In fact if they had done something, 9/11 might not have happened. They had a chance to deal hard with terrorism but didn't.

[Dendiol]

Megrahi was innocent, a scapegoat.

[waactastic]

@myta330ify I can understand where you are coming from but I disagree. Saying that we stand by our decision? With respect, I do not agree with the decision. I understand why you think him rotting in a jail cell is not the answer. However, I think releasing him on 'compassionate grounds' is not an answer either. Did he show any compassion to those that he killed? I agree with your response that Scotland should not be blamed. The Justice Minister made the decision not the Scottish people.

[justscreamscene]

@DAGDAsRevenge well to start with, lockerbie is a town, not a city. to furthur that, a nuclear bomb would be totally wasted in the middle of the country in scotland, only an idiot would do that, and lastly, the fact that the plane crashed in lockerbie was an accident, it was due to go off over the sea but the plane was late. therefore, your argument is screwed.

[theredraven]

@myta330ify The man was sentenced to life in prison. Not hard to understand is it?

How would you feel if Fred and Rosemary West or the Moors Murderers had been let out early?

[theredraven]

@halcyon0830 One of your links says that the CIA said the original investigation would prove an Iranian group was behind Lockerbie.

So it wouldn't be a false flag at all just a terrorist attack by an Iranian group (the PFLP-GC) instead of the Libyans.

[theredraven]

@jenleex And you have proof to back this allegation up?

[mollie2810]

what an awful tragedy

[poodtang1]

@anneeq008

The British and the French were the ones who started all the problems in the Middle East not the Americans. The British were playing Kingmakers long before the Americans.

[justscreamscene]

@myta330ify As a girl who goes to school in lockerbie, i stand by our sense of compassion, regardless of how it panned out.