Lockerbie Bomber Freed From Prison on Compassionate Grounds

Fox News/AP ^ | Thursday, August 20, 2009 | AP

[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.

[mware]

Being covered live.

Fox News had audio of people in the crowd yelling, "He is a F...... monster."

[clintonh8r]

Compassion is over-rated.

[kempster]

Where was his compassion for his victims?

[Callahan]

The irony is I would rather go to prison than Libya when my number is up.

[Abathar]

I say we vote to try the new experimental procedure on him of removing his prostrate through his left ear.

[spectre]

They're saying he will be welcomed as a hero when he arrives home.

sw

[mware]

After those 3 months he will start his real sentence.

BTW has he ever expressed any remorse???

[MizSterious]

Not sure if you heard them discussing how they drove him back and forth for medical treatments—knowing what we now know about the UK’s socialized medical system, we have to wonder how many elderly cancer patients had to forego their treatments so this scum could have his.

[Callahan]

The Scottish Minister of Justice had a nice long explanation about how his lack of compassion for his victims was not a factor in the Scottish people displaying their own humanity. Tell that to Braveheart.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

I can only hope a rogue F-18 blows that plane out of the sky, over Lockerbie.

[spectre]

Absolutely not. And if he could, I believe he'd do it all again.

sw

[mware]

Out of remembrance of our old relationship, maybe MOSAD will do us all a favor.

[Rapscallion]

True compassion would have sentenced him to death in the first place. What we are watching is “liberal compassion” which is not compassion at all. It inflicts more pain on the victims.

[hoosier hick]

UK justice? Does this mean that someone can kill 270 Muslims and serve 8 years in the UK?

Just wondering....

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[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Guess I’m gonna have to give up my Scotch and switch to Irish Whiskey.

[mware]

They have had to close all the streets leading to the airport for security reasons.

[Briton]

“I can only hope a rogue F-18 blows that plane out of the sky, over Lockerbie.”

So you want innocent people to die? Read what you said there but change Lockerbie to New York and pretend a Islamist wrote it.

Has it not crossed your mind that most Scots disagree with this decision?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not-so-Great Scot.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

No question about it. He’ll be a hero back home.

[b4its2late]

This is a crazy world.