Re the Lockerbie sellout...?

Well Captain Bullshit you think Britain and England are the same thing?

You also find it convenient to forget that five months before Lockerbie the US warship Vincennes deliberately shot down an Iranian Airbus in Iranian airspace with the loss of 290 innocent lives including 66 children.

This was at a time when the US was supporting that well known humanitarian Saddam Hussein.

Nobody was charged for that crime ; in fact the crew were given a heroes' welcome when they returned home and Reagan gave them medals.

Don't you think it more likely that Lockerbie was the Iranians revenge or is that concept too inconvenient for you?

Augustin, Marquis de Ximénèz, 1726 - 1817.

Let us attack her in her own Waters, perfidious Albion!

Attaquons dans ses eaux

La perfide Albion!

Written in 1793. Presumably because England did not rush to the aid of the French Aristocracy.

Albion refers to England, not Scotland or the UK.

What sell out? The man was found guilty on circumstantial evidence alone. The verdict was unsafe.

Had the case gone to a further appeal, it might have revealed police cover-ups and that the UK had been pressurised to secure a conviction.

If you wanted the shame of sloppy police investigations and external pressure to be revealed in its full gory then this case should have gone to appeal.

It might well have gone into the history books alongside torture, illegal detention and other human rights contraventions.

It just may be that Scotland did you a favour.

However, I do think that welcome back to Libya was a bit OTT.

A well known tactic of America is to cloud the issue when it makes money for America it has financed more terrorists organisations than any nation on earth , yet gets in a rage when allegedly Britain has given back a piece of murderous scum to gain oil rights . Wether it is true or not they can hardly take the moral high ground . The IRA was funded mostly by America and many of our people died from American financed bullets .Not that i agree with letting that filth free and am as angry at the decision as any American we also lost many dead and it is an insult to their memory .

"Perfide" in the French sense, from which perfidious grew, relates to England not being within the Catholic fold post-reformation; being "not keeping faith" in the most literal sense.

What Lockerbie sell out? It was a great decision. Well done Scotland!

I do not think it was sell out just some tinpot American official trying to interfere as usual waffling on about the rule of law talk about hypocrisy when the yanks were undressingng for the IRA

I didn't know that, so I looked in Wikipedia. Why couldn't you do that?