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To: nickcarraway

Does he have a health problem? If so, you have to let him go, like they did Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in 2009.


18 posted on 12/16/2020 1:26:52 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: mass55th

FLASHBACK 2010: White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
6/1/2014, 4:23:14 PM · by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears · 6 replies
The Australian ^ | JULY 26, 2010 | JASON ALLARDYCE AND TONY ALLEN-MILLS
THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison. The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer. The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens...


21 posted on 12/16/2020 2:21:02 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: mass55th

Where is he now? Didn’t his health improve after that?


22 posted on 12/16/2020 2:32:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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