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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:

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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.

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Originally Posted by Tchocky (Post 1733403)

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

I'll drink to that!

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.

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I'll drink to that!

Wait until you are old enough young man.

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

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1733568)

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:

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Originally Posted by BossMark (Post 1733575)

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

He may yet share a cell with Gaddafi :DL

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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.

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Originally Posted by Tribesman (Post 1733880)

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.

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

Lockerbie bomber comatose, near death, family says

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa...html?hpt=hp_t2

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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.

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.

"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.

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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1738448)

Lockerbie bomber comatose, near death, family says

Nevermind, I won't post the link, then.

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.

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