U.S. President Barack Obama has clinched a secret deal with opposition leaders in Libya regarding the extradition to the United States of the longest-surviving organizer of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, former Libyan secret agent Abdelbaset Al-Migrahi. He was sentenced to life in Britain but was later allowed to return to Libya.

According to the UK media, the essence of the deal is as follows: after the Libyan rebels occupy Tripoli, they are to seize Al-Megrahi and hand him over to the U.S. forces. He will then be deported to a neutral Arab country and from there to the United States to stand trial. During a pre-trial investigation, Al-Megrahi will hopefully uncover proof of Muammar Gaddafi’s personal involvement in the Lockerbie case.

"A man can’t be punished twice for one and the same crime. This is a downright violation of international law. Speaking about the Lockerbie case, it was closed after West European leaders, including the Italian prime minister, the French president and many others, met with Gaddafi.

President Barack Obama has reportedly informed the Libyan rebels that al-Migrahi’s extradition is the main condition for further U.S. support of the Libyan opposition. British media quote senior U.S. intelligence sources as saying that Al-Megrahi did not fall into a cancer-induced coma, as many would have expected him to, but is living in his own house in Tripoli with his wife and four children.

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Abdel Basset al-Megrahi received a warm welcome from flag waving Libyan supporters as he stepped off the plane Thursday in Tripoli, after his release from custody in Scotland on compassionate grounds. Such an option exists under Scottish law, and Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, announcing Megrahi's release Thursday, said the convicted bomber and former Libyan intelligence officer is near death from prostate cancer.

The Lockerbie bomber could survive for 10 years or longer, according to a cancer specialist who last year said he would be dead within three months of his release.

Air Force and Navy aircraft are still flying hundreds of strike missions over Libya despite the Obama administration’s claim that American forces are playing only a limited support role in the NATO operation.

An Africa Command (AFRICOM) spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday that since NATO’s Operation Unified Protector (OUP) took over from the American-led Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 31, the U.S. military has flown hundreds of strike sorties. Previously, Washington had claimed that it was mostly providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and tanker support to NATO forces operating over Libya.

“U.S. aircraft continue to fly support [ISR and refueling] missions, as well as strike sorties under NATO tasking,” AFRICOM spokeswoman Nicole Dalrymple said in an emailed statement. “As of today, and since 31 March, the U.S. has flown a total of 3,475 sorties in support of OUP. Of those, 801 were strike sorties, 132 of which actually dropped ordnance.”

Originally posted by anon72
reply to post by OptimusSubprime

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Of cource not, and I agree with you. I was thinking about this since I posted it. Obama is a war monger-not the man of peace he is portrayed as.

I do want this guy to pay, with his life, for killing those people over Scotland. What can I say.

The idea of compassionate release for mass murderers is obscene.