>>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012368579_bplibya16.html
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>If we're going to hate, shouldn't we direct our hatred at the actual people who made the decision to let him go? If a parent were to shoplift an expensive new toy for a crying child would you hate the child?
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>BP's statement Thursday repeated earlier acknowledgments that it had promoted the transfer agreement to protect a $900 million offshore oil-and-gas exploration deal off Libya's Mediterranean coast.
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>The British justice minister at the time, Jack Straw, admitted shortly after al-Megrahi was repatriated and freed that the BP deal was a consideration in the government's review of his case.
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>In the end, al-Megrahi was not released under the prisoner-transfer agreement. Instead, to the consternation of the Obama administration, and of many of the victims' families, the Scottish government released him under provisions in Scottish law that allow for a prisoner's sentence to be commuted on humanitarian grounds, because of al-Megrahi's cancer. That freed him from serving any further prison time in Libya, as he would have had to do under the transfer pact.
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I agree that the actual people who let him go made a huge mistake too....and it's my understanding that this so-called 'cancer' he has is not putting him on a death-bed & that he will probably live 10 more years - although who knows what part of THAT is true.
BUT - B.P.'s actions were driven by nothing other than pure greed. Perhaps the Scottish let him go for humanitarian reasons if they really thought he was about to die - but all BP cared about was money! The more I think about it the more pissed I am at BP than the Scott's.