Posted on 03/22/2010 5:11:34 PM PDT by SJackson
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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My first reaction was more Libyan nonsense. On reflection, this is the UK health care system we're talking about, he probably could get life saving treatment quicker in Libya. That chicken may be coming home to roost in the US in a couple years.
Which terminally ill cancer patient will die first, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi or Elizabeth Edwards?
I don’t know if this more of an indictment of the British National Health Service or of its criminal justice system.
How awful. This murder will be get life saving treatment and Americans will get a sugar pill.
....not very funny
I think the reason he is now likely to live longer is that he escaped the British medical system! He was ALREADY sentenced to Obamacare.
Yes, it is an equal indictment of both.
Yes, it is an equal indictment of both.
I wonder which eeeevil pharmaceutical company developed this drug.
Yes, excellent point.
I swear, if we in the USA had the gonads of our ancestors, we’d send the CIA over there to shoot this b*st*rd.
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