Doctor: Lockerbie Bomber may Live for Years
 

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.


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So humane of Britain.

There's no Britain involved.

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

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

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.

Stinking rat! :x

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

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

I would hope the Rebels would turn him over to us but unfortunately in this case NY State does not have the death penalty.

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.

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=j5naa...eature=related

Wow, thats deep, well thought out and very reasoned:rotfl2:

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.

This is why we need regime change in Libya.

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:

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.

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.

Wait until you are old enough young man.