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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: This house deplores the release of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya
  name:
    name part: Sebastian, Tim.
  name:
    name part: Kawczynski, Daniel.
  name:
    name part: El-Gamaty, Guma.
  name:
    name part: Swire, Jim.
  name:
    name part: Fetouri, Mustafa.
  name:
    name part: Qatar Foundation
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Filmed debates.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: qa
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: videodisc
    extent: 1 videodisc (approximately 46 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  abstract: Deep international divisions over the premature release of the only man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing were reflected starkly at the start of the sixth series of Doha Debates. Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora, 23, was one of 270 people killed on the Pan Am Flight over Scotland, argued passionately against the motion in a plea for forgiveness which drew loud applause. Dr. Swire, who has led a campaign for justice on behalf of the victims' UK relatives, said he was "delighted by (al-Megrahi's) release" since he believed he was innocent and that the people behind the bombing were still at large. He said he was aware that his position might "make the grieving process more difficult" for some of the victims' relatives, but it would have been a mistake to allow al-Megrahi to die in jail a martyr. A number of questions from the audience reflected public concern at international double standards that turned a blind eye to Libya jailing thousands of people without trial and allowed America to do the same with prisoners in Guantanamo. Mustafa Fetouri, a Libyan political commentator and university professor, also opposed the motion, suggesting that al-Megrahi's release was as much for compassionate reasons as for the flaws in the case against him. Guma El-Gamaty, a Libyan writer and frequent critic of the Tripoli regime, said that it had been "wrong to give in to the political and economic blackmail of a totalitarian regime." El-Gamaty, who has lived in Britain for more than 30 years, said while he agreed that al-Megrahi had probably been used by "the system" as a scapegoat, he had puzzlingly wasted an opportunity to prove his innocence by dropping his appeal. Furthermore, his release on compassionate grounds appeared absurd when one considers that "Scotland would have the best medical care for his condition and that his children, who had lived close to the jail for years, could have visited him there." Daniel Kawczynski, a Conservative MP and Chairman of the All Parli…
  note: Debate held October 12th, 2009.
  note: Videorecording.
  note: Chairman of the Doha debates, Tim Sebastian; Members of the debate panel: Daniel Kawczynski, Guma El-Gamaty, Jim Swire, Mustafa Fetouri.
  note: Also available onlive.
  note: DVD.
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    geographic: United States
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    geographic: Europe
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Trials (Terrorism)
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    geographic: Libya
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Libya
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988
    genre: Congresses
  classification: DS63.1 .D64 2009 ser.6 no.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Doha debates ; series 6
  identifier: http://www.dohadebates.com/debates/past.asp#
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.dohadebates.com/debates/past.asp#
  record info:
    record content source: ALAUL
    record creation date: 110411
    record change date: 20151202143959.0
    record identifier: in00002734499