Posted on 08/30/2011 8:54:59 AM PDT by SmithL
When the Scots released convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al Megrahi on Aug. 20, 2009 - ostensibly because prostate cancer left him less than three months to live - Megrahi presented a stooped, frail figure as he boarded his getaway plane. Hours later when he landed to a hero's welcome in Tripoli, however, Megrahi appeared triumphant and radiant.
Two years later, Megrahi is still alive - although perhaps not for long. CNN's Nic Robertson talked his way into Megrahi's supersize mansion, where he videotaped the freed terrorist "apparently in a coma." Maybe. Maybe not.
While some British and American politicians want to question - return to prison even - the only man convicted in the 1988 bombing that killed 270 people, Megrahi has an uncanny skill at escaping justice.
Exhibit A: In 2001, three Scottish judges found Megrahi guilty of the bombing then sentenced him to a mere 27 years.
Exhibit B: In 2009, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny Mac-Askill released Megrahi on "compassionate" grounds. It was an outrage. Scotland had allowed many other convicts to die behind bars. Yet MacAskill chose to send Megrahi home to Libya - effectively reducing the sentence to eight years, or fewer than two weeks per victim.
MacAskill insisted that he freed Megrahi because compassion means "remaining true to our values as a people, no matter the severity of the provocation or the atrocity perpetrated." Yet a U.S. Senate report, released by New York Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, found that Scottish officials ignored their own prostate cancer experts, who did not agree to a three-month prognosis, and that there was talk of releasing Megrahi a year before his cancer diagnosis....
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Have been boycotting all things Scottish as a result of this!
Simple a 2000# bomb will do just fine.
Obama´s fault.
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