Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
"BP told the U.K. government that we were concerned about the slow progress that was being made in concluding a Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Libya," BP said in a statement. "We were aware that this could have a negative impact on U.K. commercial interests, including the ratification by the Libyan government of BP's exploration agreement."
The company's statement appears to have been prompted by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's announcement on Tuesday that she was considering a request by four senators to investigate whether BP pushed for last year's release of Megrahi in exchange for lucrative drilling concessions off the Libyan coast. "Evidence in the Deepwater Horizon disaster seems to suggest that BP would put profit ahead of people -- its attention to safety was negligible and it routinely underestimated the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf," read a letter sent to Clinton by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer of New York, and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. "The question we now have to answer is, was this corporation willing to trade justice in the murder of 270 innocent people for oil profits?"
Not only are they rotten, but they appear to be running everything. Heck, we might as well just change the names of the individual countries to those of big multi national corporations..that's what's going on anyway.
Qaddafi Sr. has told his close intimates that he plans to retire in 2013, aged 71, and wants Moatasem-Billah, head of the Libyan intelligence service and strongman of the armed forces, to succeed him, although he only ranks as a lieutenant colonel.
So low has the eldest son sunk in parental esteem that two years ago, his father ordered him to leave the country and stay in exile for five years. It was understood that he would only return two years after his younger brother was firmly in power.
But Seif disobeyed his father and returned home after eighteen months in August 2009, propelled by a scheme which Muammar could not afford to publicly reject. With help of Russian and British business interests which expected to be rewarded by benefits in Libya's oil and gas industries, Seif managed to engineer the release from a Scottish jail of the former Libyan secret agent Mohamed Al-Megrahi, who was serving a life term for his role in the hijack of Pan Am Flight 103, which crashed over the Scottish town village of Lockerbie in December 1988 killing all 250 people aboard and 11 people on the ground.
Seif obtained the Libyan terrorist's release on the pretext that he was terminally ill with only a few months to live. When they landed in Tripoli on August 21, 2009, he and the released bomber joined hands in a victory salute. Muammar Qaddafi like everyone else was fooled by the act.
Not only are they rotten, but they appear to be running everything. Heck, we might as well just change the names of the individual countries to those of big multi national corporations..that's what's going on anyway.
Haven't you heard? Corporations have the same rights as people now...our Supreme Court says so. They do run this country and we have representatives that are residing in their pockets to prove it. When a jerk off such as Bolton apologizes to BP, you know that things are a tad askew with our government. Wall Street is a gambling casino minus the neon and governmental representation is on the take from companies that are destroying the planet. How about some more deregulation?
When legislation is being lobbied for BY the corporations,a thinking person should wonder why....
And yet come election time people will STILL vote for the same two parties....
Talk about useful idiots.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
