{"id":13845,"date":"2009-08-21T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T12:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13845"},"modified":"2009-08-21T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T12:24:22","slug":"murderer-returns-to-heros-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13845","title":{"rendered":"Murderer returns to hero’s welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi arrived home in Tripoli, Libya to a cheering crowd after eight years in a Scottish prison for murdering 270 people in Lockerbie, Scotland. Ain’t that nice? (Telegraph<\/a> link)<\/p>\n

After he left Scottish soil, Megrahi, who has served just eight years of a 27-year sentence, released a statement protesting his innocence and expressing his \u201csympathy\u201d for the families of the 270 people he was convicted of killing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s nice that he has sympathy for the victims’ family, too. Of course, it would have been nicer if he’d had sympathy for the victims’ families before he bombed them out of the sky.<\/p>\n

Another Telegraph<\/a> article reports that President Obama leads the condemnation of the murder’s release;<\/p>\n

Mr Obama said: “We have been in contact with the Scottish government, indicating that we objected to this, and we thought it was a mistake.”<\/p>\n

He added that he is now pressuring the Libyan government to keep Megrahi under house arrest until his death. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’ll work. You can tell how the Libyans are going to punish him from the looks of his reception on the tarmac in Tripoli;<\/p>\n

\"Libya<\/a><\/p>\n

The Daily Mail<\/a> describes the scene;<\/p>\n

The US president’s pleas for Tripoli to refrain from idolising Megrahi when he landed on home soil went unheeded.<\/p>\n

Instead, he was greeted by a mob who had descended on Mitiga Airport brandishing placards and cheering. <\/p>\n

Some displayed Megrahi’s face on their t-shirts while others waved Libyan and Scottish flags.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it’s so nice that the world respects us now, ain’t it? The Libyans used to fear us – that’s why they turned over their weapons of mass destruction without us firing a shot at them. If they don’t put Al Megrahi into prison, we ought to reinstate the embargoes against them and put them back on the rogue nation list. <\/p>\n

Yeah, that’ll happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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