Posted on 08/20/2009 6:44:13 AM PDT by mware
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said Abdel Baset al-Megrahi's condition had deteriorated from prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi had only served some eight years of a life sentence, but MacAskill said he was bound by Scottish values to release him.
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...and later will claim he’s been healed by Allah
I’ve been sick of the anti-US garbage from euro land and the UK for along time. This just seals the deal especially with scotland. These idiots have no idea that we wont forget this,and long after their “proud” moment of standing up to the US is over,they will still be a small insignificant nation on a global scale.We will have our justice one day and will not forget.
Done with these dregs forever, I hope the whole bloody island gets absorbed by the EU.
That's what I think. If the evidence against al-Megrahi is so good, why was it not good enough to convict any co-conspirators? It's obviously not just a coincidence that Pan Am 103 came 5 months after the US blew up an Iranian aircraft with about the same number of passengers. But apparently it is not politically expedient for our government to talk about this connection.
Never!!!!
That guy is beyond a monster.
I say let the POS rot in jail. Cancer is too good of a punishment for what he did.
Misplaced compassion has become torture for his victims’ families and complete outrage for us.
I suspect person or persons unknown are going to pay dearly for this act of compassion, before this scumbag ever assumes room temp.
“I can only hope a rogue F-18 blows that plane out of the sky, over Lockerbie.”
No, the people of Lockerbie have suffered enough.
I say splash the turd in the Med.
Some things defy reason and rationality. This is one of those things.
Eight years for 159 murders; that’s one year for 20 killings. Pretty sweet deal. So, if I go to Scotland, can I do the one year first, then take my time choosing the 20 people I’d like to whack?
Scotland is the new France.
F em and truer fag kilts.
I hope we return this favor soon.
They can paint their faces and bark like dogs as they remain in the Empire learning French.
Mayo Clinic researchers have had success in experimental treatment completely curing two patients whose prostate cancers were so far advanced they were considered inoperable. Now, the well funded terrorist will get the care he needs from supporters ( call the 1-800-NJ Rabi and Democrats who trafficked in body parts) where money is no object!! 3 months to live..yeah right.
"Gaddafi’s private jet"....where's a good mercenary when you need one? Obama added Gaddafi to his Apology Tour. Gaddafi praised Obama for breaking American foreign policy aka "the imperialist darkness", but told a gathering of his supporters-in Sirte that Obama could be assassinated..."without specifying who."
Lot of damage can happen in 3 months, if in fact you have nothing to live for and have had an exulted taste of being hailed a hero, family hailed as well.
While I disagree with the Lockerbie decision don’t forget that the UK had to put up with years of US Irish Republican sympathisers fundraising for IRA terrorists and murderers and senior politicans of both Republican and Democratic parties greeting then terrorists like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness before the Peace Process. Yet, the UK still stood by the USA post 9/11 and that should not be forgotten even if this stupid decision by the Scottish Nationalist government may make it difficult to do so!
I think that needed to be said. I think the scumbag should have been executed, but in the absence of the death penalty in Britain, he should have at least been given life without parole. However, what some Americans did (Including some influential politicians) with their support for the IRA was far, far worse - they facilitated a continuing campaign of murder.
As for this case, I think there is very little the British government could have done, assuming it wanted to. Scotland is run by an SNP minority government. The SNP’s raison d’etre is a hatred of anything to do with Britain or England. If the government requested something of the SNP, that party would probably go an do the opposite out of spite.
I also urge Americans not to let this give them a negative perception of either Scotland or the UK. After all, it would be unfair of us to get a bad impression of Americans from the actions of Obama, so the same applies here. The SNP only forms a minority government and most (At least from what I’ve heard) people here in Britain are just as against it as all of you.
So Much for Scottish Law Mr Spector.
From the beginning he was treated with more compassion than he deserved. He just hit the jackpot by being returned as a hero to his own land and family after serving only eight years in a relatively comfortable prison (compared to prisons in Muslim countries) for slaughtering 270 innocent men, women, and children.
That works out to about 11 days in jail for each innocent life taken. That's not compassion. That's insanity.
This is better treatment than most seniors would likely get under Obamacare, eh?
Cheers!
[i]Thanks, what I am saying is that this is NOT about compassion. This is about a cover-up of the Scottish Justice system because many believe the appeal Megrahi was making would have won - and so as he was dying they made a deal asking him to drop his appeal (which he did) so he could be released.
This is not an anti-American move or about compassion - this is a get-out.[/i]
This is precisely what I am hearing.
Compassion puts criminals back onto the street, dispassion puts them behind bars where they belong.
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