To many unanswered questions....

Fellow blogger Torrance Stephens says, "I am located in a country where folks don’t seek out information and merely report and re-report what others state without thorough evaluation."   He is absolutely correct and thus it is difficult to find accurate information on many local, national and world events.  For one thing, our media is working on a shoestring budget, many publications closing their doors, there are many areas of the world where we have no reporters on the ground to 'report'.  Of course, actual reporting of facts without personal slant or commentary is also hard to find these days.

On Scotland's release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, there are several important unanswered questions popping up. 

First, there is a rumor out there that al-Megrahi isn't really sick, that he does not have cancer, which was the reason he was released.   Supposedly he only has three months to live.  What proof do we have to either prove or disprove this?  Dry Bones Blog in cartoon form asks, "If he's not dead in three months, will they kill him ... just to be fair?"

Second, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown claimed ignorance and rejected the idea that the Brits could have stopped the Scots from releasing al-Megrahi.  But now there are questions out there that Brown may have known and been complicit in a deal two years prior to the release.   Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi said, "  ... it was "not a secret" that his father inked a 2007 prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) with Britain's then-Prime Minister Tony Blair at the same time the two governments were signing favorable oil and trade deals. ...  Lockerbie is history. The next step is fruitful and productive business with Edinburgh and London."

Third, how much about the release and the oil deal did the US know and when did they know it?  I feel sure that there are reporters out there somewhere investigating this, because inquiring minds want to know.

We've seen with the proposed health care bill that real research and investigative reporting is being done by average Americans, because we can't depend on the media.  Same goes for all those czars and others hired by Barack Obama, paid with tax dollars, and investigated and approved by no one ... except the American people.  Who is really running the show in the White House? 

What's the situation in Iraq since American military pulled back?    Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the latest bombing there, but my source who actually knows first hand what's going on, says Saudi Arabia and Iran are the ones causing the recent problems in Iraq.  The Iraqi people,  business owners (especially women) are worried about what will happen when the US completely pulls out.   Many questions need to be answered about who is meddling in Iraqi affairs and who it is that might destroy what our American military have given their lives for.

Torrance Stephens writes:

You see, Yemen is a strategic country on the Gulf of Aden and the fighting is near the border with Saudi Arabia. I do not know if it has been proven yet, but reports have been coming out over the past few years asserting that Al Qaeda fighters using the nation as a base to launch attacks all across the Middle East. What do know is that this may be bigger than our political and media class suspect. I mean it may just be a proxy war, fought in a poor nation by two wealth nations -Iran's Shiite-led government and its Saudi Arabia Sunni government.

Yemen has retorted that Iran is funneling weapons and money to the rebels. At the same time, Iran's news media have alleged that Saudi military forces have joined Yemeni troops in fighting the rebels. And like most places in the region, it is asserted that the Shiites (42% of Yemen's 23 million people), who want a return to the clerical rule abolished in the national revolution of 1962, and also claim to be a persecuted minority.  (continue)

Mr. Stephens thinks there are way too many unanswered questions about Yemen,  concluding:

"But I guess since it ain’t on the news, it is not important, I am just afraid when it actual start, that tens of thousands will be dead, that more extremist will be trained, and Obama will be looking George W, Bush azz backwards."

I guess we'll have to wait and hope someone will do some investigative reporting....

Comments

[Katie]

With the invention of the internet, and the rise of blogs, each one of us becomes an investigating reporter.

That is REAL people power!

[Ron Russell]

Sadly Debbie, the truth behind most major events will never see the light of day and those few facts that do emerge from behind the closed doors are often spun so much that little is learned from them---such is the time we live in. But again, this is about how its always been---complete truth seldom sees the light of day.

[Debbie]

Katie and Ron, it is a sad situation we are in today. The media doesn't have the viewership, the sponsorship, to truly do the reporting that is needed. Torrance (Raw Dog Buffalo) does a great job of blogging and cutting through the crap. I really enjoy reading his blog and he has some great books out also for purchase.

[Reese]

Most excellent post and points. I must say I found this quite poignant: "I am located in a country where folks don’t seek out information and merely report and re-report what others state without thorough evaluation."

If one were to have stopped reading there it would lend one to believe the statement was referring to how news is handled in 3rdd world nations.

Dare I say we are becoming one?

[Skunkfeathers]

Our so-called "media" has become a boot-licking Barry slave, and is hellbent on convincing our enemies that we can out-appease Neville Chamberlain and Eduard Daladier.

Turning us into a 3rd world country is just what the idealists of this movement believe we deserve.

Of course, THEY don't expect to live the life they feel the rest of us should live. But that's where the "useful idiots" portion of the equation will bite them in the ass, if they win.

[Debbie]

Torrance's statement did sound like he lives in a third-world country, I didn't think about that when I quoted him. But since certain people in control now want to knock the US down a few pegs and make everybody "equal", the US will continue her slide backward.

We've been the greatest nation in the world, economically, technically and financially, and also the country that GIVES more to other countries and people in need.

Now look where we are after the last years of Bush and the first months of Obama -- sinking like an anchor.

[MK]

On the Lockerbie bomber release, brown and obama knew, that's my feeling. They're just pretending not to have known. If beggars belief that they could not have know. If they really didn't then they both need to step down as it's evidence of incompetence.

[A.C. McCloud]

The rumor of the Pan Am bomber's health issue being fake would be a heckuva conspiracy, since it would have to involve the medical staff in Scotland. Yet we've seen it before with other terrorists. I had a link on my site to a story in April saying he only had "weeks" to live then. Something stinks. MK is probably right, but so is Ron.