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Cancer Drug May Keep Lockerbie Bomber Alive in Libya for 5 Years
Fox News ^
| 5-28-10
| March 16, 2010
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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: brown; noaccountability; uk4bombers; uk4terrorists
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To: hal ogen
It seams that Oil trumps justice today.
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05/28/2010 6:30:43 AM PDT
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2001convSVT
("Hand out pocket Constitutions to everyone you can")
To: mewzilla
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05/28/2010 6:30:52 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29.)
To: 2001convSVT
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05/28/2010 6:35:00 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29.)
To: mewzilla
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05/28/2010 6:40:32 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29.)
To: mewzilla
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05/28/2010 6:45:02 AM PDT
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mewzilla
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To: mewzilla
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05/28/2010 6:46:07 AM PDT
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mewzilla
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To: mewzilla
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05/28/2010 6:54:25 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29.)
To: SJackson
Keep him alive, but deny him pain killers.
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posted on
05/28/2010 8:18:48 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
( Two-state solution: A bad idea whose time has gone.)
To: mewzilla
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05/28/2010 8:59:41 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29.)
To: SJackson
I think his release was Obama’s payoff to Khadaffi for financing Odinga’s Presidential campaign in Kenya.
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05/28/2010 9:45:28 AM PDT
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nolongerademocrat
("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
To: mewzilla
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05/29/2010 9:10:13 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29.)
To: SJackson
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05/29/2010 9:11:20 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: mewzilla
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05/29/2010 9:12:10 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29.)
To: SJackson
I remember back when he was released, there were many Freepers, including myself, who questioned if the guy even had cancer.
Well I guess we have our answer.
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05/29/2010 9:14:30 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: mewzilla
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06/05/2010 5:32:17 AM PDT
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mewzilla
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