Jack Straw admits oil deal within Lockerbie release

[UKIP]

Trade and oil played a part in the decision to include the Lockerbie bomber in a prisoner transfer deal, Jack Straw has admitted.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the UK justice secretary said trade was "a very big part" of the 2007 talks that led to the prisoner deal with Libya. However, Mr Straw's spokesman accused the press of "outrageous" innuendo. Scotland's Justice Secretary granted Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi compassionate release because he was terminally ill.


£550m oil deal

The 57-year-old was serving life in Greenock prison for the 1988 bombing of PanAm flight 103 over Lockerbie, which killed 270 people.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted there was "no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double dealing, no deal on oil" over his release. But officials admit the prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) was part of a wider set of negotiations aimed at bringing Libya in from the international cold, and improving British trade prospects with the country.

I wonder if one of Gordon Browns relatives would of been in that terrorist attack whether this government would see it fit to release the evil scum who did this for an oil deal with a corrupt country, then again how can we name other countrys corrupt when something like this proves we're just as bad as they are.

[Immenseman]

he's going to die. we need oil.

[FlyingJesus]

Letting one old dying man out of prison in order to secure deals that are for the financial benefit of the country - especially in a time such as this - is a pretty fair trade in my view.

[Technologic]

He was old, get over it. Oil is more useful than some dead guy

[Caution]

He's doing what's best for the country, I suppose.

[Japan]

But it doesn't send a good message to all the other terrorists does it?
Kill 270 people, you get out of prison in only a few years time and come home to a heros welcome.

[UKIP]

Oh so oil is more important than the hundreds of his victims, my bad.

[Caution]

Oh so oil is more important than the hundreds of his victims, my bad.

You'd be moaning if he wasn't released and we didn't get the oil. His victims are dead, he's about to be. He should have been left in if there was no deal involved, but there was.

[-WooTWooTWooT-]

Should never have happened.

[UKIP]

You'd be moaning if he wasn't released and we didn't get the oil. His victims are dead, he's about to be. He should have been left in if there was no deal involved, but there was.

I don't think I would, thats why I support him dying behind bars. His victims are dead, thanks to him - therefore he should serve the rest of his mortal life behind bars where he belongs. The oil issue, Libya cannot be trusted with anything like this as shown by the heroes welcome he was given when he returned to Libya, and I have always said we need to move away from oil and gas (so we don't have our hands tied behind our backs when it comes to cases such as this) to nuclear power.