Doctor: Lockerbie Bomber may Live for Years

[Feuer Frei!]

A Libyan man convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up a passenger jet could live for several more years, a leading cancer specialist said Friday - two years after the terminally ill bomber was freed on compassionate grounds because he was close to death.Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish jail and flown back to Libya on Aug. 20, 2009 after prison doctors estimated he had only three months to live.


SOURCE (http://www.military.com/news/article/doctor-lockerbie-bomber-may-live-for-years.html)

[MH]

A Libyan man convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up a passenger jet could live for several more years, a leading cancer specialist said Friday - two years after the terminally ill bomber was freed on compassionate grounds because he was close to death.Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish jail and flown back to Libya on Aug. 20, 2009 after prison doctors estimated he had only three months to live.


SOURCE (http://www.military.com/news/article/doctor-lockerbie-bomber-may-live-for-years.html)


So humane of Britain.

[Tarrasque]

So humane of Britain.

There's no Britain involved.

The devolved parliament of Scotland was responsible, not Britain as a whole.

[Tribesman]

Look on the bright side, at least it stopped the embarassment of letting the appael against the conviction finaly go ahead.

[Torplexed]

At the rate things are going he'll outlive the regime he worked for too. He'd better hope his health benefits are transferable to the Rebs.

[STEED]

Stinking rat! :x

[Jimbuna]

Old news....to us Brits anyway :hmmm:

[Tchocky]

There's a whole raft of issues involved with that conviction.

[TLAM Strike]

At the rate things are going he'll outlive the regime he worked for too. He'd better hope his health benefits are transferable to the Rebs.
I would hope the Rebels would turn him over to us but unfortunately in this case NY State does not have the death penalty.

[Oberon]

There's a whole raft of issues involved with that conviction.

Raft? At least a supertankers worth.

[Tribesman]

Raft? At least a supertankers worth.
Some people can't see that supertanker though and still think the release on "medical grounds" was simply wrong(I think it was the wrong option too but understand that it was the cheaper and less embarrasing option)

If you look at the post above yours some people seem to think it would be possible to secure a conviction despite the evidence falling apart long ago, maybe they just don't know that much about the case apart from the bombing and the release.

[Anthony W.]

Boeing 747 exploded - all I need to know to come to the conclusion that someone needs to go to jail for life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5naaWe3nLI&feature=related

[Tribesman]

Boeing 747 exploded - all I need to know to come to the conclusion that someone needs to go to jail for life.
Wow, thats deep, well thought out and very reasoned:rotfl2:

[Tchocky]

I say Tribesman goes to jail for it, he's been causing allll kinds of trouble around here.

Lockerbie-related aside: One of my ATC instructors was on duty in Prestwick the night Pan Am 103 went down, it's a truly chilling story to hear.

[Subnuts]

This is why we need regime change in Libya.

[Tribesman]

I say Tribesman goes to jail for it, he's been causing allll kinds of trouble around here.

Hey you are one of those natural born terrorists who are indoctrinated by religious power brokers from birth, I think you should go to jail for life for killing Ghandi...well someones got to go to jail ain't they:up:

[Tribesman]

This is why we need regime change in Libya.
What would the regime change have to do with managing to uphold the conviction in a scottish appeals court?
But on regime change.....
It depends, if you look at the faction of the rebels that are coming out of the mountains to the west they are probably even crazier and more murderous bastards than daffy on a really bad day.

[Anthony W.]

I say Tribesman goes to jail for it, he's been causing allll kinds of trouble around here.

I'll drink to that!

[CCIP]

Frankly I also think the release was a cop-out to prevent an appeal from going forward, which would've been a huge embarrassment in the end. They probably knew he was going to live for some time, although perhaps expected that once in Lybia, he'd not have as much access to medical care as he does and would croak in relative obscurity anyway. And regardless, all of the hoopla raised in the media firmly diverts the public's attention from the 'supertanker' anyway.

[Tribesman]

I'll drink to that!
Wait until you are old enough young man.

[Jimbuna]

Actually, I'm wondering how safe he feels because the rebels will obviously view him as a supporter of Gaddafi? :hmmm:

[BossMark]

Actually, I'm wondering how safe he feels because the rebels will obviously view him as a supporter of Gaddafi? :hmmm:
He then may have wished that he had stopped in jail :dead:

[Jimbuna]

He then may have wished that he had stopped in jail :dead:

He may yet share a cell with Gaddafi :DL

[Tribesman]

Actually, I'm wondering how safe he feels because the rebels will obviously view him as a supporter of Gaddafi?
If you look through the "official rebels" the French put forward you see that most of them were daffys cronies.

[Jimbuna]

If you look through the "official rebels" the French put forward you see that most of them were daffys cronies.

Oh, true that but that just goes to show how mixed up the whole sorry sad situation is and most probably will be when a new 'government' is formed.

[Stealhead]

On the topic of the Lockerbie bombing there is an interesting series of videos form a TV program about the attack on youtube it is in 5 parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sb-a3StgVU

[Platapus]

Lockerbie bomber comatose, near death, family says


http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/libya.lockerbie.bomber/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and likely to take secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 to his grave. CNN found al-Megrahi under the care of his family in his palatial Tripoli villa Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip. The cancer-stricken former Libyan intelligence officer may be the last man alive who knows precisely who in the Libya government authorized the bombing, which killed 270 people.


"We just give him oxygen. Nobody gives us any advice," his son, Khaled Elmegarhi, told CNN.

(http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/libya.lockerbie.robertson/index.html)
Al-Megrahi was freed from a prison in Scotland in 2009 after serving eight years of a life sentence for blowing up the Pan Am jet, killing all 259 on board and 11 in the town of Lockerbie below. Doctors who had been treating him for prostate cancer gave him just three months to live, and he was released on compassionate grounds.


He received a hero's welcome in Tripoli, enraging many in the United States and Britain. And with the recent overthrow of longtime Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have called for al-Megrahi to be sent back to prison.


But the National Transitional Council, the rebel movement that toppled Gadhafi, announced Sunday that it won't allow the dying al-Megrahi to be extradited.

(http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/22/libya.lockerbie/index.html?iref=allsearch)
"We will not give any Libyan citizen to the West," NTC Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi said.
Al-Megrahi lived far longer than expected. He made a public appearance with now-fugitive Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi in July, confined to a wheelchair. He always maintained his innocence.
With the fall of Tripoli to the rebels, his care has been left up to his son and his mother.


"There is no doctor. There is nobody to ask. We don't have any phone line to call anybody," Elmegarhi said.

[razark]

Lockerbie bomber comatose, near death, family says
Nevermind, I won't post the link, then.

[Jimbuna]

He didn't look too bad on the UK news this evening...I believe some of the footage was quite recent but I could be mistaken.

[BossMark]

Not sure whether to believe this or not I think is family are talking nonsense (did well not to swear there:D)

http://news.sky.com/home/article/16058514

[Jimbuna]

Only time will tell.

[CaptainMattJ.]

such gruesome crimes deserve gruesome punishments.

I think killing 270 people deserves a little something special.

[jumpy]

Have no regard for the man, and if he was/is responsible, then I can think of few punishments more unpleasant than terminal prostate cancer; what with the incontinence, sexual dysfunction, pain and humiliation of the disease.

Like most cancers of this sort, it will kill him, slowly and painfully.

The Libyans will not hand him over to anyone now, what would be the point?

[nikimcbee]

I think they should put him in a dress and some make-up and drop him off in Tehran. That problem will fix itself.

[Jimbuna]

Actually, looking at the latest footage it would appear he may not have all that long left.

[STEED]

Actually, looking at the latest footage it would appear he may not have all that long left.

"PLACE YOUR BETS".

[Jimbuna]

"PLACE YOUR BETS".

I'd say the three months as was originally stated.