'Terminal' Lockerbie Bomber Still Alive a Year After Being Freed

I'd be surprised if they're not having a blowout party in Tripoli tonight, laughing their asses off at the gullibility and stupidity of the dolts who let this monster walks.

Happy anniversary, idiots.

Angry relatives of Lockerbie victims called yesterday for the medical records of freed bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to be made public.

They say it is vital that the evidence which led to his release from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds can be scrutinised.

Exactly a year ago, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill was told the Libyan had just three months to live because of cancer. Megrahi was returned to his homeland 11 days later.

But families of the 270 people who died when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up, have been left furious by claims from independent experts that, following chemotherapy, the bomber could live well into next year or possibly longer.

Eileen Walsh, who lost her father, brother and pregnant sister in the 1988 terror attack, said: 'The man may have cancer, but the condition and the extent of it were greatly exaggerated. Release his medical records and prove me wrong.'

The demands were last night backed by James Kelly, Scottish Labour's community safety spokesman, who said it was time the medical background to the release of the 58-year-old was published.

Former Libyan intelligence agent Megrahi was freed under Scots law that allows 'compassionate release' if medical reports show a prisoner has three months or less to live.

Mr MacAskill has always claimed the three-month prognosis, made by prison service medical director Dr Andrew Fraser, drew on advice from NHS cancer specialists.

But reports released by the Scottish Executive show no specialist 'would be willing to say' if they agreed with this verdict. It has steadfastly refused to release the full reports used by Dr Fraser.

Frank Duggan, of the Victims of Pan Am 103 group, said: 'Kenny MacAskill was warned he would need concrete and independent medical evidence to justify his decision and the papers show that simply wasn't there.

'The specialists could not agree on the three-month prognosis, but the Justice Secretary carried on regardless.

'Mr MacAskill was also warned Megrahi would receive a hero's welcome when he touched down in Tripoli and that is exactly what happened.

Washington Urged for Release of Lockerbie Monster

This current regime in Washington really enjoys having it both ways. In one breath they claim to be outrageously outraged that the Lockerbie bomber was released yet at the same time was OK with releasing Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on "compassionate" grounds.

How about a little compassion for the victims' families?

Barack Obama's administration urged Edinburgh to base the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds, it has emerged.

Newspapers had quoted a letter from Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US Embassy in London, to Scottish first minister Alex Salmond.

It read: "If Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer."

Mr Salmond told Sky News this morning that the American government's position was that they did not want Megrahi to be released - but preferred a compassionate release over a prisoner transfer deal.

"Presumably the reason that they were so opposed to the prisoner transfer agreement is on roughly the same grounds as the Scottish government had for opposing that agreement - because it was signed initially at the same time as an oil deal was being signed in the famous deal in the desert," he said.

Elsewhere, former prime minister Tony Blair was forced to deny he had paved the way for Megrahi's release during a meeting with Libya's leader Colonel Gadaffi.

"There was no deal in the desert," Mr Blair's spokesman told the Sunday Mirror newspaper. "His release was entirely a decision for the Scottish executive."

This comes after the fiction being peddled earlier this week that Obama was going to "grill" David Cameron, who had nothing to do with the deal, over the release.

COnsidering Obama's anemic approval ratings, how well will this go over with the American public? Oh, never mind, the media here will simply ignore the story.

Meanwhile, certain senators now preening for the cameras and bashing BP are having it thrown back at them.

US POLITICIANS demanding to know if BP lobbied for the release of the Lockerbie bomber were yesterday accused of taking a fortune in donations from the oil giant.

President Barack Obama is said to have received $71,051- around £46,000 - and his secretary of state Hillary Clinton $6700 from the firm that both have savaged since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Clinton has led the calls for the SNP government to explain their decision to send cancer-stricken Abdelbaset al-Megrahi home to Libya last August.

Other US politicians said to have received BP donations include two senators leading a special hearing trying to establish if BP lobbied for Megrahi's release to help the firm win lucrative drilling rights in Libya.

BP insisted the money was donated by individual staff members.

Last night, the US politicians faced SNP accusations of hypocrisy.

SNP Msp Michael Matheson said: "It's astonishing that after all the rhetoric ... that those senators attacking BP have benefited from their donations.

"It exposes some of the sheer political opportunism currently being played out over the tragic events at Lockerbie and in the Gulf."

Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill insisted he freed Megrahi on compassionate grounds and that BP had no contact with Holyrood.

He again refused to attend the senate hearing on Thursday provoking US fury. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey senator who is chairing the hearing, received $2000 in 2008 for his senate campaign.

Last week, he said: "If BP are found to have gained access to Libyan oil reserves by using a mass murderer as a bargaining chip then ... any money they make off of that oil is blood money."

New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand called for "greater transparency".

But documents show that she received a $750 donation this year.

Thanks to Hot Air for the link. Commenter Wyatt notes the delusional slob at LGF calls me a "wingnut liar" for daring to mention this. He gets very upset when anyone mentions something that embarrasses the current occupant of the White House.

Maybe he should just spare himself the misery and ride his bike off the Santa Monica Pier.

Lockerbie Monster May Live Another Five Years

The decision to release this killer looks dumber by the day. It would be one thing if he lasted a couple months longer than they said he would, but five more years?

He just won't die.

The Lockerbie bomber -- who was released from a Scottish prison last year because cancer had supposedly left him at death's door -- could be kept alive for up to five more years.

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was said to have just months to live when Scottish authorities made the controversial decision to free him and allow him to return to Libya.

But the terrorist, given a life sentence for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, has since been taking the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, the British paper The Sun reports today.

Other reports said that al-Megrahi had not been given the drug while he was in prison -- and might not have been allowed a "compassionate" discharge if it had been prescribed.

Scottish opposition spokesman Bill Aitken demanded full disclosure from Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.

"Was the existence of a drug which is reportedly now extending the life of the Lockerbie bomber included in any of the reports Kenny MacAskill read before making the decision to release him?" he asked.

Meanwhile, he's so popular in Libya people are naming babies after him.

Al-Megrahi was freed in August from his Scottish prison after cancer doctors said he had only three months to live. Scenes of him being welcomed as a returning hero provoked outrage across Britain and the US, amid widespread suspicion that the release was tied to UK trade deals with oil-rich Libya. Now, to the embarrassment of the ministers who freed him, he is healthy enough to be working on the autobiography which he hopes will clear his name.

But it is the revelation that mothers and fathers in Libya are now naming their children after Al-Megrahi which will most anger opponents of his release. The bomber's father Ali Al-Megrahi said: "His name is revered by numerous families, with newborn babies being named after him everywhere."

It has also been confirmed the Libyan government has made large payments to Al-Megrahi to allow him to live in an exclusive area of the capital Tripoli. A senior Libyan diplomatic source said: "It is safe to say that the family wants for nothing." But in 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."

He said around 30,000 people had visited Al-Megrahi since his return, among them members of the ruling Gaddafi family. But many Lockerbie relatives remain convinced Al-Megrahi is guilty. Susan Cohen, whose daughter Theo died in the blast, said: "The thought that there are now lots of little babies who are going to grow up admiring a man responsible for a terrorist atrocity is terrible."

Lockerbie Bomber Still Alive After Six Months

If we're to believe the Scots and Libyans, this guy should have been dead four months ago.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who is suffering from terminal prostate cancer, no longer receives hospital treatment after ending the course of chemotherapy that he had been given after returning to his homeland last August.

Professor Karol Sikora, the London-based doctor who examined Megrahi and predicted he would be dead by last October, admitted this weekend that the fact the bomber is still alive might be "difficult" for the families of the 270 victims of the attack.

The latest disclosure will incense many of the relatives of those who died in the bomb blast in December 1988 when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in mid air over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on the ground.

Most did not want Megrahi released and they suspected he would live longer than the predicted three months.

The Sunday Telegraph revealed last September that the Libyan government had paid for the medical evidence which helped Megrahi, 57, to be released. The Libyans had encouraged doctors to say he had only three months to live.

The life expectancy of Megrahi was crucial because, under Scottish rules, prisoners can be freed on compassionate grounds only if they are considered to have this amount of time, or less, to live.

Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, ruled last August that Megrahi should be freed. Megrahi's release came after Libyan leaders warned that lucrative oil and trade deals with Britain would be cancelled if the bomber died in jail.

So they released a mass murderer in return for oil, and the guy is still living.

Sweet deal, huh?

Megrahi, is now living in a spacious two-storey villa with his wife and their five grown-up children in a prosperous suburb of Tripoli, the Libyan capital.

The property has a spacious garden and an area where the family erects a large tent to entertain visitors for celebrations.

The property has a security gate and there is often a uniformed police officer sitting on a white chair outside.

The Megrahis, who are part of a prominent tribe, are well off and it is understood that his family was paid substantial compensation by the Libyan Government after he was jailed for life.

Sikora still claims Megrahi has little time to live. For his own sake, he better be right.

Professor Sikora had a message to the relatives of the Lockerbie tragedy who are angered by Megrahi's release: "The quality of his life is not good – he is a dying man.

"Quite frankly, as an act of mercy, it is better that he dies at home rather than in prison."

However, one source involved in monitoring Megrahi's health suggested the bomber's condition has got no worse in the past six months.

The source said: "Megrahi is still the same as ever. His condition has not deteriorated. There is no sign of him dying any time yet but who knows? It's totally unpredictable."

Judicial Watch Sues FBI Over Megrahi Files

Seems like this is newsworthy here in the states, but nobody in the media seems the least bit interested.

The FBI is being taken to court in the US over its refusal to release documents relating to the release of the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

Judicial Watch, a conservative pressure group that campaigns for transparency, fights government corruption and was opposed to the early release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi last August, has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit in the US to obtain important papers relating to the decision to allow him to return to Libya.

The watchdog said it wanted to shed light on what role, if any, the US had in his release.

It made the request in September 10, 2009 and says that, by law, the FBI was required to respond by October 8. However, the group said that the FBI, while acknowledging receipt of the request, provide neither documents nor any explanation as to why they had been withheld.

Legal documents lodged with the US District Court for the District of Columbia claim the FBI “violated the FOIA by failing to produce any and all non-exempt records”.

The news comes after The Herald revealed that vital documents in Britain relating to the Lockerbie conviction may never see the light of day.

Curiously the reason given in the UK was this maggot had less than three months to live.

That was nearly six months ago. Probably the only ones surprised by this are the pinheads who released him.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said: “Not only was the decision to release Megrahi from prison an affront to justice and an insult to the families of the victims of the Pan Am tragedy, but it also served to rally terrorists around the world.

“And given the fact that most of the people on board that flight were Americans, we deserve to know what the US Government knew about this horrible decision to release a known terrorist from prison.

“The FBI has an obligation to the American people and the victims’ families to release all relevant documents as soon as possible.

“Frankly, given its lackadaisical and ideological approach to the terrorist threat, I’m concerned the Obama administration did not do enough to prevent this terrorist’s release.”

Lockerbie Bomber Is a Millionaire

Remember that Libyan that the Scottish high court commuted the sentence of and sent home to die in dignity, whom they are having trouble keeping track of? Well, apparently he is a millionaire, or was in 2000 when he went to trial.

The Lockerbie bomber had £1.8m in a Swiss bank account when he was convicted eight years ago, it has been revealed.

The Crown Office, Scotland’s equivalent of the Crown Prosecution Service, has confirmed it refused to grant bail to Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi as recently as November last year because of concerns he might try to gain access to the money.

The existence of such a large sum in a personal account casts doubt on claims by the Libyan government that Megrahi was a low-ranking airline worker.

Gee, I just love how the law enforcement model works when it comes to dealing with terrorists. Catching and releasing pirates in Somalia, or paying millions of dollars in ransom to them, releasing Gitmo detainees only to allow them to return to their barbaric ways and now granting American constitutional rights to all people of the world no matter where they are or what they are engaged in. It matters not whether you are simply trying to enter the country illegally or killing contractors in Fallujah, the message is clear. Let's wag a finger in their face, tell them they are a naughty boy, give them a little timeout in the corner and then let them back out to play as long as they promise not to do it again.

It only has marginal success with 5-year-olds and even less success with hardcore terrorists imbued with the power of radicalized Islamic beliefs.

LEAVIN' ON A JET PLANE.

Well, as I forecast, the UK is setting the Lockerbie bomber free. On "compassionate" grounds. He's off on a private jet to Libya. The US Government has indicated it is unhappy with this decision. Better get used to it. When Blair was in charge, he forced his left wing colleagues to play ball. But he is gone and the UK has slunk further to the left and allowing a mass killer to walk free seems natural, noble even. This is socialism in action, there are no moral absolutes anymore and no crime goes unrewarded.

Megrahi has terminal prostrate cancer. That is what killed my father and it is indeed awful and I would not wish it on anyone. But justice has been set aside in pursuance of realpolitik, and then dressed up in the fluffy lanuguage of liberal compassion. Wrong. This man should die in jail in the UK. His corpse could be sent home.

We have rewarded evil. No good will come of it. Where all the bravehearts who used to chant "No Blood for Oil" now then, eh? Mute.

JUSTICE SET ASIDE

What does it profit a government that it loses its soul but gains cheap oil?

Tony Blair was last night accused of agreeing a 'blood money' deal involving the Lockerbie bomber with Colonel Gaddafi just hours before BP unveiled a£500 million oil contract. The then Prime Minister laid the foundations for the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi during a meeting with the Libyan leader in a desert tent two years ago. The pair thrashed out a controversial prisoner transfer deal just before BP chairman Peter Sutherland announced the firm was investing $900million - about £545million - to search for oil in Libya. If the firm strikes rich, it could be worth £13billion.

Mark my word - tomorrow will see the Scottish government release the Lockerbie bomber and the reason is..... OIL! Appeasing terrorists is one of the few things at which UK governments excel.

Lockerbie Bomber Could Go Free

The case of the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Britain's biggest terrorist outrage that killed 270 people, could be reopened after fresh evidence that his conviction was based on unreliable evidence.

If the appeal is successful, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi could walk free.

Read it all.