While Galloway has declared himself a non-supporter of Muammar al-Gadhaffi’s regime, a recent revelation being offered by Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, Libya’s former Justice Minister, still pose intriguing questions to the former British MP.
In a 2009 column appearing in the Daily Record, Galloway wrote about the furor over the British government’s release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who had been released from prison under compassionate grounds.
al-Megrahi remains the only individual convicted for the Lockerbie bombing. On December 21, 1988, a Pan-Am flight from New York to London exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. 270 people in total were killed.
In 2009, Galloway claimed to have the inside track on the Lockerbie bombing. al-Megrahi, he insisted, was an innocent man.
“Libya was framed for the horrific crime at Lockerbie, and Megrahi was merely a fall guy,” Galloway wrote.
In fact, Galloway claimed that the Lockerbie bombing was committed by a Palestinian terrorist group, retaliating for the accidental shooting down of an Iranian passenger jet.
“I've always been close to the Palestinian cause, so I know what I'm talking about when I say the Pan Am airliner was downed by a Palestinian splinter-group, the PFLP - General Command, led by...More >>
The United Nations, the body founded in the wake of the Holocaust and the horrific consequences of unchecked fascism, has once again signalled just how far off its foundation it's slid over the last 60 years. In a resolution on extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions, a specific reference to sexual orientation has been dropped from the list of unjustified reasons for executions, after several Arab and African countries banded together in a bid to have the reference removed.
