Scots Officials Claim Obama Administration Asked Them To Free Lockerbie Bomber

[jordan179]

According to Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent of the Guardian, in an article published just today (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/25/barack-obama-megrahi-release-lockerbie)

the US grudgingly supported freeing the Lockerbie

Comments

[affablestranger]

"If America had wanted him to stay, he would have stayed."

I could buy that maybe 15 or so years ago. I can't buy that these days. Our stock isn't really as high as it used to be, and it's not like a lot of people aren't out to show how they're "ahead" of us.

And yes, Lockerbie isn't even a distant memory to most Americans.

[unixronin]

Look on the bright side: He didn't actually outright apologize.

[jordan179]

If America had wanted him to stay, he would have stayed.

I disagree. He was under British control at the time, and while America has considerable influence over Britain, we don't make British policy.

That said, Obama did a stupid, evil thing by putting American influence on the side of the Terrorists in that matter.