Libya - Senators McCain Lieberman Visit Gadaffi A Week Before Lockerbie Bomber Release (Aug 14 2009)

Tripoli - 14 Aug 2009 ...... A delegation from the US Congress held talks with Libyan officials in Tripoli on Friday, amid speculation that the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing could be released early from prison on compassionate grounds. Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, who is terminally ill with cancer, is serving a life sentence in a Scottish prison for the attack on Pan Am Flight 103.Talking to reporters in Tripoli, delegation member Senator John McCain said he understood no formal decision had been made regarding the release of al-Megrahi, but did not elaborate. Lawyers for al-Megrahi said on Friday he intended to drop his appeal against conviction, as Scottish officials consider his request for transfer to Libya.British broadcasters this week said without citing sources that he could be released early from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.The Scottish government, however, said it had yet to decide on his motion for early release. They were also considering a motion to allow him to serve the rest of his sentence in Libya.At Friday's news conference, McCain said US delegation's talks with Libyan officials had focused in particular on the "provision of non-lethal defence equipment" to Libya's government.He added there were many ways that the US and Libya could "work together as partners", but stressed that the US still had concerns about the status of human rights and political reforms in Libya. The Arizona senator continued saying that the "ties between the United States and Libya have taken a remarkable and positive turn in recent years". US-Libyan relations hit a low in the 1980s, but began to improve after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, whom former US President Ronald Reagan once famously called the "mad dog of the Middle East", renounced weapons of mass destruction in 2003. Gadhafi engineered a rapprochement with his former critics following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. He voluntarily dismantled Libya's secret programme to develop nuclear weapons, earning commitments from Britain and the United States to work together to contain the threat of international militant extremism. The Libyan government applied in May to have al-Megrahi repatriated under a prison transfer agreement it has with Britain.Separately, al-Megrahi applied in July for release on compassionate grounds, claiming he was terminally ill with prostate cancer.The former Libyan secret service agent is the sole person convicted for the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 that killed 270 people, most of them Americans.He was arrested in 1991 and held under house arrest in Libya until handed over in 1998 to Britain. He was convicted in 2001 by a special Scottish court set held at Kamp van Zeist in the Netherlands. Wide of Senator John McCain speaking at news conference, surrounded by (left to right) Senator Joseph Lieberman, Senator Susan Collins, and Senator Lindsay Graham

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[MaggiesBoxers]

McCain and Liberman both zionists,

[mit26chell]

Look - two criminals who should be tried and hung in a public viewing!

[Koolaidsmile310]

Speechless...

[33bonevoyage]

RE: "Look - two criminals who should be tried and hung in a public viewing!"

There are actually three criminals. Little Lindsey Graham, McGain's other valet, in addition to LIberman, is standing on Maniac McCain's left side, just off camera.

[Ptinski]

@1Urganda1 Exactly. The Libyan standard of living was perfectly balanced and no one went without. Citizens had access to all they needed including health care, which WE in this big bad country do NOT. We don't know what we're doing.

[1Urganda1]

two criminals & evil-doers who have done nothing but corrupt the US, unlike Kadafi who has done a lot for his people: provide food, water, jobs, stability, defense

[jjcale1111]

The irony ... watch?v=zB3RxHoW5Jw ... LOL

[biorgymd]

My God, when will the American People wake up. WHEN????

[TheJUNGLESURFER]

liar

[freeeeelibyan]

wow from libya

[Somai82]

brainwashed!

[up2space]

@MaggiesBoxers is mccain a jew? look it up.