Posted on 05/28/2010 4:45:14 AM PDT by SJackson
Aug 20: Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi holds his prisoner release papers as he walks up stairs to board an airplane in Scotland. Aug 20: Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi holds his prisoner release papers as he walks up stairs to board an airplane in Scotland. The Lockerbie bomber is at the center of a fresh row after it emerged he is taking a cancer drug that could keep him alive for five more years, The Sun reported.
Terminally ill Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was prescribed chemotherapy treatment Taxotere after returning to Libya.
But on Sunday it was reported he wasn't given the drug while he was in Greenock prison in Scotland - amid claims he could have been kept behind bars if he had taken the medication.
Opposition justice spokesman Bill Aitken has demanded answers from Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.
He said: "Was the existence of a drug which is reportedly now extending the life of the Lockerbie bomber included in any of the reports Kenny MacAskill read before making the decision to release him?
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If they're going to deny the medicine, they should have let him die just like a Brit would.
His time on earth will eventually come to an end and then he will meet the Living God.
I bet he does not even have cancer
They promised he would only live anotehr 3 months after his release.
They owe us one dead terrorist.
I say we give them a week to turn him over and then we lay one them “Fat Wars” on him. In fact, I saw a guy on America’s Biggest Loser the other night that could crush this terrorist like a grape if he lay on him.
Justice UK style.
Kill a planeload of people and get released early from prison so doctors can vigorously work to save your pathetic life.
Just a reminder of the Great Zero’s diplomacy.
Jack Bauer's last mission????
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Actually, I think that the entire Scottish National Party government and a good portion of the Labour government in London were 'paid off' in and for varying values of payment.
Payments can be made in so many covert ways from pure bribes and threats of unemployment to intra-government promises of favorable treatment. Given that Libya is a rich oil producer, anything is possible and the proof is that this piece of inhuman trash still lives, as does his un-indicted co-conspirator, Col Kaddafi!
I have my doubts too. At minimum, we now know the dire prognosis was bogus. Not that it comes as surprise. The whole justification for his release on compassionate grounds was based on the say-so of one, unnamed doctor, a general practitioner--against the opinions of 4 specialists who refused to concur with the prognosis. (One wonders if the doctor wasn't named because doing so would reveal certain, um, affiliations.)
In Aug, 2009 Megrahi's prostate cancer was declared to be "very advanced and aggressive", declared metastatic, having "spread to his bones." His life expectancy was down to "months or extended weeks; certainly not into next year".
So this guy whose cancer was so aggressive that he was declared "certainly" DOA by 2010 is now gonna be around 5 more years. I have no doubt that when 2015 rolls around, he'll still be "terminal," with new, equally baseless timelines proffered for his demise.
The justification for his release is gone. It should be rescinded. Of course, now that he's in Libya, good luck with getting him back, suckas.
He was only supposed to live 6 months. Why isn’t he killed now or returned to jail to rot??? The Scots are fools.
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