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Old 25th Aug 2014, 16:47
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Typhoon93
 
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Shot, one person convicted for Lockerbie was a Libyan national who was extradited by Gaddafi himself. I recall Gaddafi accepting responsibility but he denied that he gave the order. How that works, I don't know. I'm not sure how a person can extradite two of his own people, one of which was later convicted and then to later claim that he was responsible, but didn't actually order the attack. That sounds a little bit suspicious.

One needs to question why we have used military action in Muslim countries. A cynic would suspect these radicals want to hide their plots because they want to make surprise attacks, which is why they are "attacking in retaliation"....

I oppose any form of military action until the leaders can get their act together. We need a realistic goal and the guys on the ground need to be able to achieve it successfully, with politics that prevents them being kept to a minimum. Lessons need to be learned from the last two major conflicts, in my view.
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