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Gadhafi Son to Bomber: We Cut Deal With UK for You

Business sec. eyed over ties to younger Gadhafi

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(Newser) – Even as Scotland insists its decision to release the Lockerbie bomber was a compassionate one, a conversation between Moammar Gadhafi’s son and the bomber suggests some backroom wheeling and dealing, the Sunday Telegraph reports. A transcript has Saif Gadhafi telling the bomber, “You were on the table in all commercial, oil, and gas agreements that we supervised in that period. You were on the table in all British interests when it came to Libya.”

Questions are swirling over the connection between business secretary Lord Mandelson, who denies claims of such a deal, and the younger Gadhafi. “The evidence is mounting that there was far more to the release of Megrahi than simply a judicial decision based on compassion,” said a British MP. Downing Street said last night that PM Gordon Brown and the elder Gadhafi had talked about the release at last month's G8 summit.

Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, left, and son of the Libyan leader Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, right, gesture on arrival in Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 20.
Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, left, and son of the Libyan leader Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, right, gesture on arrival in Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 20.   (AP Photo)
On Aug. 20, 2009, Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, center, is helped down the airplane steps on his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya.
On Aug. 20, 2009, Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, center, is helped down the airplane steps on his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya.   (AP Photo)
Peter Mandelson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008.
Peter Mandelson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008.   (AP Photo/ Alastair Grant)
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Derni
Aug 23, 09 10:07 AM CDT
I'l say it again-LETS boycott all items from Scotland-refuse to deal with their goods and stop flights to their country-end of story Reply
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vissequ
Aug 23, 09 1:34 PM CDT
I agree!
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MarkF
Aug 24, 09 10:28 AM CDT
First of all, the "bomber" was a scapegoat used to hide the fact that the US and UK Government would not properly persue the real culprits of the Lockerbie bombing for fear of losing their economic intrest deals with libya. And since we are not a Government who brutally tortures and murders its prisoners and since he has about a month to live, we let him go. Go ahead and boycot all things Scottish, , turn of your TV,, unplug your phone, purge all Penicillin based antibiotics from your system, ect, ect , ect. You done that yet?, nope did not think so.
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NoReallySeriously
Aug 24, 09 1:52 PM CDT
not to be too petty here but technically the tv was created in england.. by a scottishman lol
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lumina
Aug 23, 09 10:34 AM CDT
While I agree with your sentiments, boycotts such as this just don't work. People will not give up drinking Scotch & not too many eat haggis anyway. Remember the debacle over "french" fries? How long did that last? Reply
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