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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I can’t let these threads go by without mentioning a high school classmate of mine who was lost on pan-am flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland.
Rest in peace Keith Thomas
1973 La Feria High School graduate - a small school, only 93 graduating seniors that year including Keith and myself. He was in the armed forces at the time of his murder over Lockerbie. I was just looking at his pic in our yearbook and it really brings it all back.
Do you think the Libyans see it as “compassion”. Hell No, they see it as weakness.
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