Gadhafi’s son asks “why so angry” about Lockerbie bomber’s release

Gadhafi’s son: ‘Why so angry’ over release? – USATODAY.com

The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says Scotland’s release of the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing opens the way for trade deals between Britain and Libya.

“Lockerbie is history,” Saif al-Islam al-Gadhafi said of Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. “The next step is fruitful and productive business with Edinburgh, London. Libya is a promising rich market and so let’s talk about the future.

“There is no reason for people to be angry. Why be so angry? This is an innocent man who is dying,” Gadhafi said in his first interview since returning to Libya last week with the freed prisoner, whose release sparked outrage in the USA.

Lockerbie bomber: an ill-conceived gesture.

This will inevitably fuel the suspicion that they were happy to see al Megrahi released because it will improve British relations with oil- and gas-rich Libya without implicating the Government in the release of a convicted terrorist. Such a stance would be staggeringly cynical as well as utterly misguided.

More on the “possible” oil deal here. via IBA.

Before:
More details on Lockerbie bomber’s health asked.
Victims from Lockerbie bomber against Gadhafi’s visit to NJ.

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