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Lockerbie bomber rushed to hospital- a Free Republic exclusive
Myself | July 19, 2003 | Myself

Posted on 07/18/2003 7:38:03 PM PDT by Prodigal Son

Glasgow, Scotland

Amid tight security, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the man convicted of murdering 270 innocent people on an airliner that was downed by explosive device over Scotland in 1988, was rushed to hospital in Glasgow on Friday from Barlinnie Prison for unknown ailments.

Ushered in through a rarely used “Decontamination Entrance Room” at the hospital, the terrorist was whisked down the hospital’s corridors with a SWAT team-like escort. The Decontamination Room in the hospital is specially designed with state of the art equipment to decontaminate victims of NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) attack. The entrance was used for security purposes and had no connection with possible NBC contamination on the prisoner’s part, according to sources.

Under police helicopter support outside the hospital and moving tactically, “they were very impressive and large” said one hospital employee speaking of the entourage, they wheeled the Libyan murderer into the A and E department for treatment. Carrying automatic weapons, wearing kevlar vests and communicating with Navy SEAL like ear pieces, the security team posted rear, front and flank guards and the leader of the team cleared the intersecting corridors ahead of the group as they rolled down the Glasgow Royal Infirmary’s Victorian halls.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, whom Nelson Mandela visited in June 2002, “did appear pale” as he was wheeled past one observer on a hospital trolley. Mandela, imprisoned by the government of South Africa for acts of terrorism himself, demanded that the Libyan murderer be moved to a Muslim country to serve his sentence that year.

“It was all very rushed”

No hospital source could be quoted as saying what the exact nature of Al Megrahi’s visit was but “it caused quite a stir” among the hospital staff.

“It was all very rushed,” said one hospital employee. “We should’ve been given sufficient warning”, alluding to the implications such a high security risk patient could have on the Accident and Emergency Department in Glasgow’s biggest hospital. Patients, potentially, would have had to be removed from treatment rooms in order to treat the terrorist. One member of staff remarked that if it had been necessary to admit the convicted terrorist overnight “an entire ward might have had to have been evacuated to accommodate him”.

For security reasons, only select medical staff were allowed to see him. “No one simply wearing hospital scrubs would have been allowed to get near him,” said one highly placed source. The police escort accompanying Al Megrahi “looked like they meant business… I was afraid to approach them”. But one source noted that given his diagnosed ailments, the terrorist could have been treated as well in the prison without the inconvenience to legitimate NHS patients- or the expense.

Owing to the terrorist’s complaints and recorded symptoms, he was rushed straightaway into a bay that is reserved for the most serious patients, dubbed the “Resusc Room” by hospital staff (short for Resuscitation Room). The emergency room at the hospital has a limited number of these bays.

“I would think this was a very expensive trip to the hospital for the taxpayers,” said one source afterwards.

This man “killed more people at one time than the entire A and E department of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary can accommodate” said one member of staff “yet he received better treatment than any normal Glaswegian could expect to get- and he's a terrorist”.

One source said, “This murderer got the same treatment one would expect for the Queen”.

He was, according to reports, seen by a consultant (the highest level of doctor in the UK) immediately- a treat the normal Briton is not afforded and was in and out of the department in approximately an hour where the average Scot would have had to wait hours for the equivalent treatment- all on the taxpayers’ Pound.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was whisked away again after his treatment and is back in Barlinnie Prison tonight serving his life sentence.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1988; 2002; 200206; abdelbasetalimohmed; almegrahi; lockerbie; mandela; megrahi; nbc; nelsonmandela; prostatecancer; southafrica
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I vouch for the veracity of every quote in this article. All quotes come from actual sources and all accounts are true to the best of my knowledge and reported as such.
1 posted on 07/18/2003 7:38:03 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son
Great catch. Too bad he didn't have to go through the same procedures to get care as an ordinary Scot would.

How did you come up with the story?
3 posted on 07/18/2003 7:44:11 PM PDT by concentric circles (User name for sale - no longer needed)
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To: Prodigal Son
Very interesting. What symptoms could have required the use of a top Glasgow consultant, that the prison consultant couldn't have handled?

Did your source give you a description of symptoms?

4 posted on 07/18/2003 7:47:48 PM PDT by texas booster (Call the TAG team when you need a superhero!)
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To: Prodigal Son
This is outstanding reporting and writing.

....and we heard it first, here on FR!
5 posted on 07/18/2003 7:50:17 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Why not go out on a limb, isn't that where the fruit is?)
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To: Prodigal Son
You mean allah couldn't handle the situation for the poor little islamoterrorist?
6 posted on 07/18/2003 7:51:00 PM PDT by ApesForEvolution ("The only way evil triumphs is if good men do nothing" E. Burke)
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To: Prodigal Son
By the way, I claim copyright on this article (if the legal case should ever arise), July 19, 2003, and it should not be used by any entity for profit except by my express consent.
7 posted on 07/18/2003 7:51:56 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son
Whoa! Nice One, sounds like a movie
8 posted on 07/18/2003 7:53:59 PM PDT by cmsgop (Has anyone seen my Schwab ?)
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To: texas booster
Did your source give you a description of symptoms?

Yes, but they said it off the record and did not want to violate the patient's rights. Suffice it to say, it has to do with more with the way the NHS system is set up than anything else.

9 posted on 07/18/2003 7:53:59 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: cmsgop
Hey, if the UK Sun can do it- I can do it! ;-)
10 posted on 07/18/2003 7:56:01 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son
Nice work, PS! Very nice writing. Thanks for putting it up here first.

Are you going to publish it somewhere?

(Other than here, the center of the universe, that is.)

11 posted on 07/18/2003 7:59:00 PM PDT by Semper911 (Bread and circus are not enough. Hence, FreeRepublic.com)
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To: Prodigal Son
Nice report. Kudos to you. I would suspect they used the chem room (or whatever term that's proper) because it afforded the most security. One never knows the exact extent of the medical related problem. They had to be sure it wasn't a coordinated effort, thus the tactical team and it's full-blown procedures.
12 posted on 07/18/2003 8:00:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Prodigal Son; Howlin
...and it should be in breaking news, for all to see!

Howlin, an FR exclusive! Can you do your ping thing?

13 posted on 07/18/2003 8:01:22 PM PDT by Semper911 (Bread and circus are not enough. Hence, FreeRepublic.com)
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To: concentric circles
How did you come up with the story?

Well, I've got my sources in the hospital there. A hospital is a great place to get info ;-)

14 posted on 07/18/2003 8:03:01 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son
So, this guy gets sick and Dr. Kelly dies on the same day ~ maybe from the same cause. Does ricin have an antidote?

Mandela's name keeps popping up whenever anyone mentions "African Uranium". Interesting that he had such a personal interest in the care and well-being of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, even visting him in June 2002.

Makes me wonder if investigators are getting entirely too close, eh?!

Uhhh, does Mandela do contract hits or what?

15 posted on 07/18/2003 8:06:20 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Semper911
Are you going to publish it somewhere?

Well, if someone were willing to pay me for that sort of thing I would be all ears. If someone would be willing to place the story in publication in exchange for an open ear in the future- I'm also listening. Failing that- I consider Free Republic to be one of the best places to look for news in the entire world. I posted it here simply because I wanted people to know- that's all. The info is what's important in the long run.

16 posted on 07/18/2003 8:06:29 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: burrito boy; Prodigal Son
Looks like someone at Ananova read your post and called the hospital for confirmation. Maybe the US media will pick it up too.
19 posted on 07/18/2003 8:16:26 PM PDT by Semper911 (Bread and circus are not enough. Hence, FreeRepublic.com)
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To: muawiyah
Mandela's name keeps popping up whenever anyone mentions "African Uranium".

Are you on to something here?

Mmmmmm....

20 posted on 07/18/2003 8:19:45 PM PDT by Semper911 (Bread and circus are not enough. Hence, FreeRepublic.com)
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