to be freed on compassionate grounds! - pity the 270 dead weren't shown compassion.

Have they made that decision yet? last i read they were thinking about it- so what!! he has terminal cancer! so many people die in jail- why is he so special?

all those poor people that died because of him- why show him mercy- he didn't have any for them!! this is disgusting!

I'm with u girl,it sure is disgusting.

the scottish government insist no decision has been made yet but he is expected to be free next week.It is a disgrace, now if only he had stolen money instead then he would never have got out!

He always maintained that he was innocent all a long .In politics there are more questions than answers .

it's more correct to say he didn't act alone. don't they all maintain their innocence?

get this, he wants released in time for ramadan!!

it was face to face you see
as i look up and down to my left and right, as i stand in my camoflauge suit thinking im number one of a hot shot as you seek. i cross the barriors and start to speak, i hold a bomb not thinking twice, yea im a psycho i admit that first
danger is my game but my name is the lockerbie bomber so lets the game began. release me as the crimes i have commited is enough

I always thought that Lockerbie was a Libyan intelligence operation and that the guy they convicted was prolly innocent and just a sacrificial lamb put up by Khadafy (sp?) to protect his real intelligence operatives



I remember when Khadafy said "here is the line of death. cross it and die"

so the US Navy sent a carrier group and crossed it

and so he said "this is the line of death"

and they crossed it so he said "no wait. this is the line of death"

so Reagan said "I got your line of death right here" and bombed his palace.

never heard much from Khadafy after that

yes it has been said that Kadaffi gave us a sacrificial lamb. he has spent some time since kissing the azz of british politicians like blair to 'gain acceptance in the west'.

Ronald Reagan attacked Libya in the 80's .One of Gaddafi's daughters was killed in the raid . If the US and NATO had sufficient proof that Libya was behind Lockerbie, I think they would not have stopped at jailing of intelligent officer .Was Reagan's attack on Libya justified ?. NO .

and was bush's attack on iraq justified? NO.

Who cares, the attacks on Libya put them in their place, and they have generally behaved since.

Libya was one of the leading sponsors of global terrorism

*Abu Nidal and the Achille Lauro. where an American jew in a wheelchair was pushed over the side to drown

*Rome and Vienna airport massacres in 1985

*The Berlin nightclub bombing in 1985 (East German sources gave evidence that it was a direct attack from Libyan intelligence)

*The Lockerbie bombing directly attributed to Libyan intelligence


Khadafy was not some innocent bystander. Reagan said enough is enough and put a stop to it

that is an interesting post. Here is a little refresher, and the actual facts.

Oct 1985 libya supported Abu Nidal hijacks the Achille Lauro and killed an American citizen and threw his body overboard.

Dec 1985 Abu Nidal group simultaneously attacks airports in Rome and Vienna.. 16 killed..

April 5 1986 a bomb explodes in a west berlin disco killing 2 american serviceman and wounding 200..

April 14 1986 Libya is bombed in retaliation for previous offenses.

The bombing of Pan Am 103 happened in dec of 1988

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Lockerbie-Bomber-To-Be-Released-On-Compassionate-Grounds---Al-Megrahi-Is-Suffering-From-Cancer/Article/200908215359848?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_8&lid=ARTICLE_15359848_Lockerbie_Bomber_To_Be_Released_On_Compassionate_Grounds_-_Al_Megrahi_Is_Suffering_From_Cancer


Lockerbie Bomber 'Will Be Released Next Week'
7:23pm UK, Thursday August 13, 2009

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will be released on compassionate grounds due to his terminal cancer, Sky News has learned.

The decision on the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi rests with Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.

He visited Megrahi in Greenock jail last week to discuss his application for release and has also met the families of Lockerbie victims.
The Scottish Government says a final decision has not yet been made.

But Sky sources say Mr MacAskill will make an announcement next week to grant freedom on compassionate grounds to the 57-year-old Libyan, who has advanced prostate cancer.

"Many relatives of the victims on this side of the Atlantic will be pleased - they have long believed the wrong man was convicted," said Sky's Scotland correspondent James Matthews.

"But American relatives will be furious as they have insisted this man should die in jail."


Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison for blowing up a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie as it flew from London to New York on December 18, 1988.
All 259 people on board were killed, as well as 11 people on the ground.

Libya has repeatedly called for Megrahi's release - most recently at a meeting between Gordon Brown and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi last month.

The Scottish Government has been considering a request for him to be freed on compassionate grounds in addition to a separate plea for him to be transferred to a Libyan jail.

The news that Megrahi may soon be able to return to Libya was met with outrage from Susan Cohen, an American women whose 20-year-old daughter Theo was among the victims.

"You send him back - he will be a hero and Gaddafi will be able to forget the whole thing," she told Sky News.

"I'm sick of hearing about compassion - have your compassion for all those people who died."


However, Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the bombing, said he welcomed the decision as he had believed for several years that Megrahi was not guilty as charged.

He told Sky News: "I feel that to keep him in prison for this long, when he's known to be dying, is inhumane.

"If Scotland repatriates him now, particularly on compassionate grounds, then that will be to Scotland's credit."

My personal view is that the bastard should be executed!!!

The G.W. Bush Administration killed scores of INNOCENT Iraqis and scores of INNOCENT Afghans and no one fron them went to one minute to jail . It is just like a jungle whereas the strong eats the weak . .

like that has anything at all to do with this thread

Yes of course .
When you are strong you get away with everything .
When you are weak anyone shites on you .