Generalissimo Francisco Franco Still Dead; Lockerbie Bomber Still Alive
He was supposed to live only three more months, hence his release on compassionate grounds. Seven months later, we learn he could live for another five years:
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.
Terminally ill Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was prescribed chemotherapy treatment Taxotere after returning to Libya, The Sun reports.
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.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Mirror reports that he is penning his memoirs in an adoring country where babies are being named after him:
The freed Lockerbie bomber is having babies named after him by hero-worshipping countrymen, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
And Abdul-Basset Al-Megrahi – released last summer when said to be near death – is now in such good health that he is penning his life story in the plush home where he has been visited by an astonishing 30,000 well-wishers.
The Sunday Mirror has also learned that the 57-year-old is receiving a substantial income from the Libyan government. . . . [I]n remarks which will boost suspicions that he was freed to re-start UK-Libya trade, Al-Megrahi’s brother Mohammed Ali said: “My brother sacrificed 10 years of his life to assist in the lifting of the economic blockade against Libya.”
It’s terrible, the way the poor man made all those sacrifices, isn’t it?
UNRELATED REMINDER: 270 people died in the bombing: 259 on the plane and 11 on the ground.
I just non-opped letting a guy out who I had sentenced to 47 years, 4 months a mere four years ago. And he may live a long time, too. Admittedly, there are two subtle differences:
1. He didn’t kill 270 people.
2. He won’t be writing anything, or talking to people, or walking about. He had a dispute with another inmate and the other inmate was persuasive.
The Lockerbie bomber wandering about and inspiring other terrorists ought not surprise anyone. Letting him go was never justifiable.
–JRM
JRM (9f4662) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:14 amDid they not want to pay for the drug nor catch flak for letting him die without it?
Or was it a convenient cover?
MD in Philly (70a1ba) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:29 amIt’s too bad that those fighter bombers missed Ghadaffi by mere inches. Reagan had the right idea all along.
Dmac (ca1d8c) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:31 amI think this says something wonderful about Libya’s health care system, especially cancer treatments.
Some chump (050674) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:36 amIf it were not for W, Obama would be palling around with Saddam by now, sanctions lifted, oil flowing and the Iraqi nuclear industry booming.
Kevin Murphy (3c3db0) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:39 amCuba has good health care, too. Look at how long Castro has lingered.
Kevin Murphy (3c3db0) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:40 amDid he have an ornament on the white house Christmas tree too?
PatriotRider (103218) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:53 amYes, Kevin, but he had to Spain, to get it, if he had relied on the system there, we would have died,
ian cormac (0a5527) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:55 amcrocodile tears, Now the truth is, al Megrahi was/ is a Libyan intelligence agency, and since we made
a deal with Musa Kusa, who directed Lockerbie and La Belle discoteque, wasn’t to be touched, that was the game
7, PatriotRider, the Lockerbie bomber ought to have been an ornament on the tree, hanging by the neck until and after death.
PCD (1d8b6d) — 3/15/2010 @ 6:56 amThis disgraces the Labour government and, I suspect, is a preview of what Obama will do given similar circumstances.
Mike K (2cf494) — 3/15/2010 @ 7:33 amNo problem. Scotland’s Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, can serve out al-Megrahi’s term, unless it was someone else who made the decision. In which case that person should take al-Megrahi’s place in Greenock prison.
ropelight (d30316) — 3/15/2010 @ 8:12 amI’ll bet the babies named after him will be bomb slingers, too.
FatBaldnSassy (9520fd) — 3/15/2010 @ 8:13 amWasn’t it a Libyan/Muslim doctor who said Al was suffering from prostate cancer? Do we really know that for a fact? Just asking.
PatAZ (9d1bb3) — 3/15/2010 @ 8:50 amI hear the Brits are pretty steamed about how Obama’s been treating them. Of course he’s doing it because he’s an arrogant buffoon who dislikes Europe in general, not because of this, but Britain definitely deserves at least some of the cold shoulder they’ve been getting from the US since Bush left office, thanks to this and other reasons.
skwiself (b69230) — 3/15/2010 @ 9:19 amMmm, seems to dovetail into the post last week about the usefulness of the death penalty v. life in prison.
We should send him a gift, a free plane ticket and day pass to Six Flags. The Texas one, you know that started the whole chain.
And then when he arrives, we let the texans handle this. Problem solved. hell, as ron white said once, “other states are thinking of abolishing the death penalty, while Texas is building an express lane.” heh.
A.W. (e7d72e) — 3/15/2010 @ 9:49 amLockerbie bomber still alive?
Can’t we start a collection to get this guy offed?
KingShamus (fb8597) — 3/15/2010 @ 9:49 amIsn’t Blackwater (Xi) looking for a new corporate purpose?
AD - RtR/OS! (913281) — 3/15/2010 @ 10:06 am17, AD, they are not assassins for hire.
PCD (1d8b6d) — 3/15/2010 @ 10:36 amPity!
AD - RtR/OS! (913281) — 3/15/2010 @ 10:42 amAs the Lockerbie victim’s families have long suspected, politics was behind the release:
In words which will confirm the suspicions of Lockerbie victims’ families, Saif Gaddafi – widely tipped to succeed his father as Libyan leader – also finally admitted that the convicted killer’s release had dominated trade talks with Britain.
This would have included discussions about lucrative oil deals, despite the fact that Megrahi was officially released purely on compassionate grounds. Five months after the release, Libya announced plans to invest £5billion in the UK.
Dana (1e5ad4) — 3/15/2010 @ 3:47 pmPerhaps a remaining piece of the wreckage – miraculously airborne all these years, will land “JDAM” like upon this person and promptly explode – showering the immediate area with scrapnel marked “Pan Am 103”. Inshallah – Truly, Allah Akbar!
[who are we to question the wisdom of the most holy one who would be responsible for such a miraculous event?]
Californio (ffb315) — 3/15/2010 @ 10:02 pmThe Lord works in mysterious ways.
AD - RtR/OS! (913281) — 3/15/2010 @ 10:09 pmwhere is a B-2 with a few spare SDB’s when you need one?
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 3/15/2010 @ 10:17 pmmy megrahi is freed.i love him a lot 4 ever,he is innocent,
ajcha (813511) — 3/16/2010 @ 12:38 am