Posted on 12/20/2020 5:11:29 PM PST by xomething
(CNN)In one of Attorney General William Barr's final acts leading the Justice Department, he plans to announce on Monday criminal charges against an alleged bombmaker in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
The former Libyan intelligence officer Abu Agila Masud is expected to be charged for his involvement in the bombing, according to three officials familiar briefed on the matter.
Monday is the 32nd anniversary of the attack, which killed 270 people, the majority of whom were Americans. The Pan Am Boeing 747 was en route from London to New York.
The announcement also brings Barr's service as attorney general -- a position he's held twice -- full circle.
Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi later accepted Libya's responsibility for the bombing.
But because of difficulty bringing them to the US, the men were tried instead by a Scottish court sitting in neutral Netherlands.
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Why is this terrorist still alive? He should have been executed 32 years ago.
Better late than never, I guess. Pan Am - there’s a name from the past. I still remember the news reports about that bombing when I was in school.
“Why is this terrorist still alive? He should have been executed 32 years ago.”
Drop him over shark infested waters. After wrapping him in bacon.
Mmmmm. Bacon.
Good lord, a young lady from our neighborhood died in that crash......a day I will never forget.
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I’d prefer to throw him into a pen of hungry pigs. They’ll eat anything.
If Hillary was in charge she’d to that “What difference does it make, it was like soooo long ago”
Because politicians and the MSM love islam.
32 years ago. 1988...
Has fat boy done anything about more critical recent crimes like the coup attempt? The brazenly stolen election? Hunter Biden the rapist and his crime family bribery machine? Hillary’s bribery machine?
Crickets.
Anything on the Saudi nationals and diplomatic personnel who financed and assisted the 9/11 terrorists? You know, the ones Bush allowed to fly out when no American was allowed to take off and fly anywhere?
Crickets.
No wonder we cannot get justice today, the prosecutors are working on cases from 30 years ago. I really thought this was a sarc post. Good grief, talk about being behind the times...
I doubt if sharks are attracted to bacon like dogs are. Better to make thousands of tiny cuts all over him, with an acid-dipped sharp knife. Then troll him by his ankles slowly off of Monterrey, CA's beach. Chow time!
ping flr
Horrible. I might have been on that flight too, but for some reason, every time I went into the travel agent’s office their system went down. I feel very blessed.
Barr’s last act is useless and essentially virtue signalling, just like everything else he has done.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
#12. It is extremely important that we CONTINUE TO TRACK AND KILL (or prosecute) anti-America terrorists, no matter how long it takes.
The lesson is: You can run, but we’ll get you one way or the other - handcuffs or JDAMS, or a couple of bullets in the head.
Our saying should be “Never leave a terrorist alone or alive”.
I was in Syracuse on business when it happened, 35 SU students were on the plane.
A great many American students on Pan Am 103 had been studying in Great Britain and were headed home for Christmas. I was acquainted with one of them, a bright handsome young man full of life cut short by the despicable coward, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, head of security for Libyan Airlines, who in 2001 was convicted of 270 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
However, al-Megrahi was released remarkably early from a Scottish prison in 2009 on ‘compassionate’ grounds. His doctors claimed he was terminally ill from prostate cancer and would soon die which he did after enjoying his last 3 years living in a luxury villa in Tripoli. He died on the 20th of May 2012.
They’re our “allies”.
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