07-05-2009, 12:05 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:It would also avoid the need for any inquiry into the true cause of the destruction of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie.
Which is the absolute minimum requirement of course.
That is EXACTLY the issue here. As Jim Swire the most honest, active, knowledgeable and effective Lockerbie campaigner says, Megrahi is most likely an entirely innocent man. As with the Birmingham 6, the Maguire 7, the Guildford 4 and assorted other high-profile 'terrorist' cases, State imperatives were and are always twofold:
1. Secure a conviction
2. Make sure the guilty party fits the State Security narrative du-jour
With item 2 trumping any consideration of actual guilt or innocence. The absolute requirement now of course is for the State to cover its backside and ensure that an innocent man's transfer (or release) is conditional upon his effectively admitting his guilt. Andy Worthington's archives on Guantanamo inmates make it clear that exactly the same techniques were employed time and time again there too.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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