Chris Green writes:
It is always interesting to hear the other side of stories like the one that pervaded the Western media a couple of weeks ago that >the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing received a "hero's welcome" in Libya. As it turns out, there may not have been any such thing. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/opinion/30qaddafi.html
No doubt the reception was exaggerated in the US and UK media, but there's something close to a straw man argument in Saif El-Gaddafi's article. He writes "There was not in fact any official reception for the return of Mr. Megrahi, who had been convicted and imprisoned in Scotland for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing."
My impression, including from Googling, is that the media did not say there was an official reception, but that Megrahi was given a hero's welcome. It certainly wasn't large, and not remotely comparable to one that would have been organised by the Libyan regime had they wanted to, but viewers can be forgiven for gaining the impression of a hero's welcome, as can be seen here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8213352.stm Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
