FBI director outraged by Lockerbie bomber release

WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller sharply criticized Scotland's justice minister for releasing the Lockerbie bomber, an act that "gives comfort to terrorists" all over the world. Mueller sent a letter to Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who cited compassionate grounds in his decision to let Abdel Baset al-Megrahi return to Libya because he has prostate cancer and was given only months to live by British doctors. Full Story »

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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug. 22, 2009

Bringing to light the Director's outrage is vital to the state of mind of the relatives of the victims of this disaster; but it would have been such a better article had they gone into the depth of the whole matter as well as reception in Libya.

This is an outrage pure and simple. I would like to see ssome written protests from at least the USSOS to both the governments of Scotland and Libya. Maybe overboard but as far as Libya goes maybe some very short term economic retaliation, for the "Heroes Welcome". Without any doubt this letter had the blessing of the White House - and everyone knows that - domestic and internationally.

Before he became FBI director, Mueller spent years as a Justice Department lawyer leading the investigation into the 1988 airplane bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans.

Add to the outrage of course was the years it took to even get this matter to trial.

President Barack Obama on Friday called the elaborate homecoming in Libya for the freed bomber “highly objectionable.”

A verbal rebuke is not enough!

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