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Jack Straw, Lockerbie and Immigration.

There is currently an unwanted immigrant to this country who does not wish to be here. He's in a Scottish jail. This country has signed a treaty to get rid of him, exclusively. All he has to do to go home is tell everyone why he did the Lockerbie bombing, which he insists he did not do.

Criminals often tell lies; but why has so much evidence disappeared or been suppressed, and why, so many long years on, in this one case, is a Labour minister not unfamiliar with government shenanigans so determined to lock up and then remove an illegal immigrant?

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David Lindsay said…
So that poor man can now serve his sentence in Libya? He shouldn’t be serving it at all. He didn’t do it. Everyone knows that.

We needed Syria on side in the first Gulf War, so we blamed Libya instead. Libya later needed us (or, at least, the Americans) on side, so Gaddafi played ball and handed over this innocent man, just as he later did and pretended to have dismantled a WMD programme which had never existed in the first place.

Alliance with Libya, run by the Gaddafis and where at least a third of the population subscribes to the Sanusi synthesis of Wahhabism and popular Sufism, is either irrelevant or positively pernicious, depending on how you look at it.

Whereas alliance with Syria – run by an erstwhile London doctor and with a huge, very well-integrated Christian population – is an urgent priority.

However, there can be no alliance with Syria while this great wrong remains unrighted.

Though not for that reason alone, that righting cannot possibly come too soon.
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