Posted on 08/29/2009 7:05:47 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Many Americans, beyond the relatives of the victims of the 270 people killed, when Abdel Baset al-Megrahi blew up a jetliner over a Scottish town are furious about his release from a Scottish prison and the warm greetings extended to him when he arrived in Libya.
The TV cameras showed the gala reception, Qaddafi hugging Megrahi, and Megrahi kissing the Libyan despot. Libya's leader then praised his "friend" British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the British government on Thursday for what he called their "courage" in allowing Megrahi's release.
"To my friends in Scotland ... I praise their courage for having proved their independence in decision-making despite the unacceptable and unreasonable measures that they faced," Qaddafi told crowds waving Scottish flags and throwing flower petals. "Nevertheless, they took this courageously right and humanitarian decision."
Today the Times of the UK reports the release had less to do with humanitarianism and more to do with oil:
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Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi sent home ‘on the advice of just ONE doctor’
By Daniel Martin
Last updated at 1:04 AM on 28th August 2009
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freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi
The doctor who advised that Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi had fewer than three months to live was not an expert in prostate cancer
Fresh doubts over the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber were raised last night.
It emerged that the doctor who advised that Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi had fewer than three months to live was not an expert in prostate cancer.
This advice was instrumental in persuading the Scottish government to release him on compassionate grounds, and allow him to return to Libya - where he received a hero’s welcome.
Under Scottish law, the Justice Secretary can consider releasing people if they are thought to be fewer than three months from death.
But the official report on Mr Megrahi’s health, which was released yesterday, said that no prostate cancer specialist ‘would be willing to say’ how long he had left to live.
Instead, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill relied on the ‘opinion’ of an unnamed doctor, believed to be a GP, who had no experience in terminal prostate cancer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209588/Lockerbie-bomber-Al-Megrahi-sent-home-advice-just-ONE-GP.html
OK....I’ll say it....does this guy even have cancer at all?
ping
You have to ask?
It's a set from the get
The doc provided a fig leaf
And did the “doctor” just happen to be a follower of Allah??
England has sold her soul to the devil.
I dunno. My grandfather has prostate cancer but was told it was a slow growing cancer and wasn’t even going to be treated, because he would most likely die of old age first.
BTTT.
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