Posted on 08/24/2010 7:58:05 PM PDT by Nachum
CRITICS of the controversial decision to release the Lockerbie bomber have said he should consider himself lucky to be free, after he complained about his time in Greenock Prison.
Reacting in Libya to continued outrage over his release a year ago, on the basis that he had just three months to live, Abdel-baset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi said: "They want to quicken my death. Is it up to me?
"They killed me in prison a million times, denied as I was from seeing my children and family. So what more do they want?"
However, yesterday Scottish Conservative deputy leader Murdo Fraser pointed out that the bomber had served less than two weeks in prison for each of his victims.
Megrahi continues to claim that he is innocent of the murders, the worst atrocity in British legal history, but Mr Fraser said that if this was the case, the Libyan should have continued with his appeal.
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‘”They killed me in prison a million times”
Then they should’ve buried him at *least* once.
How about justice?
Is that too much to ask?
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