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William Hague: Lockerbie Bomber Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi's Release Should Be Reviewed By The Scottish Government

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Huffington Post UK   Dina Rickman First Posted: 23/08/11 19:57 BST Updated: 24/10/11 11:12 BST

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Foreign secretary William Hague has said he believes the Scottish government should “urgently” review the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi.

“Well the Prime Minister and I were both sharply critical of the release of Al-Megrahi when that happened, we have always thought it was the wrong thing to do. It was, of course, a matter for the Scottish Executive not for the United Kingdom Government but, and so it’s not a matter I can control now.

“But if I was a Scottish minister, rather than a UK Government minister, I would be looking urgently to review this situation and see what I could do about it”, he told BBC News on Tuesday afternoon.

Yesterday a spokesman for the Scottish council whose responsibility it is to monitor Al-Megrahi told Huff Post UK they were looking to get in touch with him soon: “Up until Friday, I would have said all of the contact is entirely up to date.

"The position at the moment is because of the situation in the city we will be looking to make contact with him sooner than we’d expected to, and the reason for that is to make sure that we can continue to make the contact we’ve had over the last two years.”

Conservative MP Robert Halfon had called for Al-Megrahi to be sent back to the UK if the Gaddafi regime crumbles.

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Foreign secretary William Hague has said he believes the Scottish government should “urgently” review the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi. “Well the Prime Minister and ...
Foreign secretary William Hague has said he believes the Scottish government should “urgently” review the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi. “Well the Prime Minister and ...
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MolliBlum
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10:31 AM on 08/24/2011
Don't you just love the headline? "Hague:.." makes it sound like the ICC was involved... oh, those witty HP punsters...
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MarkEMacLachlan
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08:56 AM on 08/24/2011
"It was, of course, a matter for the Scottish Executive not for the United Kingdom Government but, and so it’s not a matter I can control now."

Poor old Tory boy Hague, ever the Unionist, even the few members of the Tory party in Holyrood refer to the Scottish Government rather than the executive. This is a classic example of a small man trying to look hard and appeal to his more bloodthirsty, hang em high constituents...

Does Robert Halfron seriously expect to turn up at the gates of Barlinnie with Megrahi in his wheelchair and push him in?
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01:45 PM on 08/24/2011
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Tim Darch
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12:19 AM on 08/24/2011
For all the rights and wrong of the Al-Megrahi case, it has now been shown that he was correctly released on compassionate ground.

So Mr Hague is showing his true colours once again, it just a shame Mrs T wont give him her dresses!!
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MelRoy
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12:39 AM on 08/24/2011
Really, I thought he was released because the appeals court knew they blew the case, to avoid embarrassment?
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west lothian questioner
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11:53 PM on 08/23/2011
If Hague was a Scottish politician, he quite likely wouldn't have been elected. As for him ever being a Scottish Minister... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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TerryCollier
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09:21 PM on 08/23/2011
What a golden opportunity to put the wrong man back in prison
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shylove2
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07:56 PM on 08/23/2011
Someone shoul reopen the shooting down of the Iranian airliner in Iranian air space in 1989 by the US Navy too maybe they were connected and Libya was just a converntient scapegoat for other reasons...
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MolliBlum
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08:38 PM on 08/23/2011
No way are they going to look at that again.
At the time, the press was full of reports about Iran's determination to exact eye-for-eye revenge. It was only much later that the finger was pointed at Libya. (The US needed Iran on its side when Iraq went into Kuwait). It took a massive PR effort to persuade the public. Now they're just going to have to stick with their story.
It's kind of ironic, really, as the US has been rattling its sabres at Iran for quite some time now. And the "nuclear threat" isn't really getting much traction. I bet they'd just love to say it was Iran all along -- but they'd lose credibility if they did that U-turn.
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ScottishLefty
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11:42 PM on 08/23/2011
Hey Molli........sitting reading the Scottish Daily Record this morning (here in the US) with my cup of Nescafe, and read that tory boy, old etonian 'call me dave" says he wants Megrahi back in jail.......fury Molli, absolute fury.....time for Scotland to go it alone
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yeti101
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07:07 PM on 08/23/2011
tories are the poodles of the USA of course they're going to say this. We'll do what's in our countries interest Mr Hague.
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Catriona
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12:22 AM on 08/24/2011
And trained poodles at that.
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