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AM looking at the man who murdered my husband -- and he's in the city we loved and lived in together. I never thought I would live to see this day. Here I was in Midtown Manhattan, less than a mile from the United Nations, watching Moammar Khadafy address this world body one month almost to the day after his agent, a convicted mass murderer, was released from a Scottish prison and flown home to a hero's welcome. It's a scandal. Tony Hawkins, my late husband who died on Pan Am Flight 103, was born in London but lived the...

Back from summer recess, Congress faces continuing outrage over Scotland's release of Libyan terrorist Abdel Bassett al-Megrahi, convicted of destroying Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. How did this happen? How is it possible, at the supposed height of "Obamamania" worldwide, that Great Britain, our closest ally, would free a terrorist who killed 270 innocents, 189 of them Americans? What does this mean for our policy against terrorism? British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's own ministers now concede, despite earlier denials, that Megrahi's triumphal return to Tripoli was linked to British interest in greater trade and investment with Libya. In the...

Our readers, being the very informed and responsble citizens that they are, are well aware of the release of one Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, "the only individual convicted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. The event which killed 270 people, including all those on board, is now one of the most spoken of terrorist events in recent memory. On August 20, the British government released him on "compassionate grounds." Megrahi has terminal prostate cancer. Boo-hoo. The release of convicted terrorist Megrahi led the White House to issue a statement expressing "deep regret" for his release,...

The next time some Muslim group claims their religion is being mocked, point them in the direction of this story from Scotland. Note to John Murtha & Dick Durban: Muslims help fund exhibit that encourages defacing of the Bible Art Show Encourages People to Deface the Bible, Write Obscenities A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art - and visitors have responded with abuse and obscenity. The show includes a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and stuffing them into her bra, knickers and mouth. The open Bible is...

August 26, 2009, 4:00 a.m. Once Upon a Time in North AfricaWhat a difference a compassionate century makes. By David Kahane I don’t know about you, but I spent the weekend beaming with pride at the fierce moral example set by a compassionate Scottish government when it freed the long-suffering Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan “terrorist� convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie man-caused disaster. According to a confidential report cobbled up by the house medicos, “Mr. Megrahi suffers from general debility. . . . His sleep pattern is disturbed. He appears tired and drawn. He has . . . reported a strong feeling of isolation — cultural, religious,...

Here is video of Libyan Dictator Col. Mohammar Khaddafi (Gadhafi) embracing released terrorist Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi upon his return to Libya. The video is from a Sky News report that also says Khaddafi thanked the British Government - Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Andrew - whom he claims helped convince Scotland to release the terrorist bomber, responsible for the deaths of 270 people aboard Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. The British government denies the allegations. . . . . (Watch Video)

Great Britain is on the defensive as criticism intensifies over the release from prison of the bomber of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. British newspapers have been rife with speculation that the release of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who is said to be suffering from terminal prostate cancer, was motivated by lucrative Libyan oil deals and even anti-Americanism rather than compassion for a dying man, as was originally claimed. Megrahi, who had served only eight years of a life sentence, was released from a Scottish prison on humanitarian grounds on August...

NEW YORK (CBS) ― New York Sen. Charles Schumer wants the United Nations to condemn Libya's welcome home celebration for the man convicted in the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Democratic senator was scheduled to holding a news conference Saturday to urge the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N to introduce a resolution condemning the ceremony and asking for an apology. Family members were furious that convicted Libyan bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison Thursday and was greeted in Libya by cheering crowds. Pan Am Flight 103 — which was carrying mostly American passengers to...

"Four hundred parents lost a child, 46 parents lost their only child, 65 women were widowed, 11 men lost their wives, 140 [people] lost a parent, seven lost both parents." -- Scottish prosecutor Colin Boyd at the 2001 trial of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi flew home Thursday to his wife and children in Libya. Scotland's justice secretary, Kenny Mac-Askill, freed al-Megrahi only eight years into his life sentence for murdering 270 people, 189 of them Americans. A flag-waving crowd greeted al-Megrahi when his Afriqiyah Airways jetliner landed at Tripoli. More warm welcomes may follow: When an...

Lockerbie Victim's Mom Calls Obama Response 'Soft' Susan Cohen 'Furious & Sick' Over Bomber's Release In Scotland CBS News Interactive: Pan Am Flight 103 The mother of a young woman killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 was blunt in her anger over seeing the mastermind of the attack return home to cheering crowds. "I was furious and I was sick," Susan Cohen, whose daughter Theodora, then 20, died on the flight. Cohen reserved some of her anger toward the Obama administration as well. Thursday, President Obama called the release of Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi...

Here is video of Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie Bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi arriving back in Libya to a hero's welcome. As he descended the steps of the airplane that flew him home from Scotland, you can see him waving his arms in victory as music plays and the crowd cheers. If ever there is a picture of the stark difference in moral values between America and the nations influenced and dominated by Radical Islam, here it is. We mourn the death of 270 innocent people while they cheer as a hero their killer. . . . (Watch Video)

US spies blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb Jason Allardyce, Mark Macaskill American intelligence documents blaming Iran for the Lockerbie bombing would have been produced in court if the Libyan convicted of Britain’s worst terrorist attack had not dropped his appeal. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer expected to be freed this week, had instructed his lawyers to produce internal US intelligence communications unavailable to his defence team at his trial in 2000. The cables, from the American Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), suggest that Iran was behind the attack on Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people...

Here is video of Wolf Blitzer speaking with Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill about his controversial decision to release the Lockerbie bomber....(Watch Video)

Hero's welcome for Lockerbie terrorist link

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, two decades ago was returned to his native Libya on Thursday. Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi covers his face as he boards a plane. "Our justice system demands that judgment be imposed but compassion available," MacAskill said. He spoke to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the case. Here is a transcript of that interview. Blitzer: And joining us now from Scotland, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill. Mr. MacAskill, did Al Megrahi kill 270 people? MacAskill: Yes. He was convicted by a...

Over ferocious American objections, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie jet bombing, flew home to a jubilant welcome in Libya on Thursday night after the Scottish government ordered his release on compassionate grounds. Mr. Megrahi,57, a former Libyan intelligence agent, had served 8 years of a 27-year minimum sentence on charges of murdering 270people in Britain’s worst terrorist episode. Widely forecast in British news reports over the past week, his release angered many Americans whose relatives died in the bombing, leaving them to confront anew the agony and anguish of loss and to question...

Isn't this fantastic? Scotland releases the person responsible for killing 270 people on compassionate grounds and look at the hero's reception he gets: [VIDEO AT SITE] He was convicted and still claims he didn't do it but offers his sympathy to the families of those killed. Despite strenuous American opposition, the Scottish government on Thursday ordered the release on compassionate grounds of the only person convicted in the Lockerbie bombing, permitting Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a 57-year-old former Libyan intelligence agent, to return home after serving 8 years of a 27-year minimum sentence on charges of murdering 270 people in...

It is not just the reputation of Scottish justice that will suffer in America as a consequence of the release “on compassionate grounds” of Abdelbasat Ali Mohmen Al Megrahi. The credibility of Barack Obama’s influence on the world is going to take at least as hard a knock. In the end, all the protests and all the diplomatic pressure from the White House counted for nothing. Scotland’s determination to return Megrahi to the bosom of his family and his homeland was not going to be blocked. The rehabilitation of America’s standing in the world was going to be one of...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Thursday he was deeply disappointed that the Scottish government released a former Libyan agent convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. McCain joined two other senators -- Independent Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Susan Collins of Maine -- in issuing a statement after the convicted bomber was released Thursday morning and flew home to Libya. McCain, Lieberman and Collins recently visited Libya and met with its leaders, including Col. Muanhar Qadhafi, telling him they were adamantly opposed to the release of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi. The senators' statement said, "We...

Tripoli, Libya-- Libyans are celebrating this evening the return of their beloved son, Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi, with thousands are waiting for his plane to land at Ma’atiqa International airport. However, those who have had the chance to see today’s photos of Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi in such a bad state of his health are expressing their shock and some of them could not help but drop some tears on their faces. Many are blaming the Scottish authorities for not taking care of Megrahi’s health while in prison and speculate that he was left, on purpose, to die of his cancer. ---...

al-Megrahi was greeted at the airport in Tripoli by thousands of his cheering countrymen. Loudspeakers blared patriotic music and a ceremony with the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was said to be planned.

Scottish officials are in stitches over what has been called "one of the greatest ironic jokes in all of human history." Public outrage was pouring in from around the world over the decision by a high court to release the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. Megrahi was convicted of masterminding the 1988 airline bombing which killed over 200 people.

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - A former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people flew home on Thursday after Scottish authorities released him because he is dying of cancer. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, believed to have less than three months to live, was freed on compassionate grounds, a decision strongly criticized by the United States, which had campaigned to keep him in prison. Many of the victims were Americans. "He is a dying man, he is terminally ill," Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill told a news conference. "My decision is that he returns home to die."

Here is video of family members of those who died in the 1988 Pan-Am Lockerbie Terrorist Bombing reacting to the release by Scotland of the Lockerbie Bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. They are outraged that he is being released and flown back to Libya to die with his family. He is suffering from Prostate Cancer. The United States has expressed disappointment in the decision to release him. . . . . (Watch Video)

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said Abdel Baset al-Megrahi's condition had deteriorated from prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi had only served some eight years of a life sentence, but MacAskill said he was bound by Scottish values to release him.

The government of Scotland has decided to release convicted Lockerbie terrorist bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi on "compassionate grounds." The government of the United Kingdom has washed its hands of the entire affair, allowing the Scottish government total freedom in taking this perfidious action against the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103. The actions of the Scottish government are inexcusable. A man who is responsible for the mass murder of 270 innocent civilians must be held accountable for such a cold blooded and ruthless act. Freeing a terrorist in order to further ties with the tyrannical Libyan regime...

A jailed Libyan terrorist, convicted in the bombing 20 years ago of Pan Am Flight 103, has incurable cancer and wants to be released on bail pending his appeal. Eileen Walsh has a message for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi: "Too bad."  She lost her father, brother and sister, who were aboard that plane when it blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland. "The big thing for me right now is keeping Megrahi in jail," the Glen Rock resident said. "Megrahi is trying to get a retrial because he is dying of cancer, but I don't give a damn." It has been two...

'The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will remain in jail while his appeal continues, a court has ruled. Lawyers for Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who has advanced prostate cancer, had asked the Appeal Court in Edinburgh to grant him interim liberation. The Libyan is appealing against his conviction for the murder of 270 people when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in 1988. A full hearing is likely to take place in the middle of next year. The judgement on the bail application was delivered on Friday by the Lord Justice General Lord Hamilton, along with Lord Kingarth and...

Going public for the first time in an article and interview on Pajamas Media, an Iranian who infiltrated Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the CIA accuses the mullahs of orchestrating — among other things — the 1988 explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Nineteen years ago, a Pan Am flight took off from London to bring 259 people to New York, 179 of them Americans. It never made it past Scotland, where the plane exploded, killing all aboard. A trial in Scotland placed blame on Libya, and found a man guilty, despite mounting evidence that the trial had at least gotten the conspiracy wrong -- and did so under pressure from the American government. Jeff Stein at CQ Politics lays out the fascinating story: Back in 1988, Iran was immediately suspected of authoring the mass murder, in retaliation for the accidental downing of...

This mass of twisted metal is the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 – still lying abandoned in a scrapyard. Quite why it is there, 19 years after the atrocity, is shrouded in mystery. The remains, hidden away in rural Lincolnshire, include the twisted nose section of the Boeing 747 that became the most haunting image of the bombing. Some 270 died when the jumbo jet was blown up above Lockerbie on December 21, 1988. The wreckage was transported to Roger Windley's salvage scrapyard near Tattershall shortly afterwards. Since then, it is believed the firm has been paid about £800...

A little over three years after Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, Fred D. Thompson provided advice to a colleague about one of his law firm’s new clients: The man representing the two Libyan intelligence officials charged in the terrorist bombing.

A little over three years after Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, Fred D. Thompson provided advice to a colleague about one of his law firm’s new clients: The man representing the two Libyan intelligence officials charged in the terrorist bombing. The colleague, John Culver, a partner at the Washington firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn began advising the two suspects’ Libyan lawyer in February 1992. Mr. Thompson, according to a memorandum from that era written by his secretary, held “discussions with Culver re: Libya” that same month. At the time, Libya was facing international...

Lockerbie convict 'will soon be home in Libya'   (Boryana Katsarova/AFP/Getty) The Bulgarian nurses flew home earlier this month       Libya believes it has reached a deal with Britain that could see a Libyan convicted for the Lockerbie bombings extradited home in return for last week’s release of six foreign medics, Muammar Gaddafi's son was quoted as saying today. Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, a former Libyan secret service agent, is in prison in Scotland after being convicted over the 1998 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie. In June al-Megrahi won the right to a new...

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Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up as it flew over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, when 12–16 oz of plastic explosive was detonated in its forward cargo hold, triggering a sequence of events that led to the rapid destruction of the aircraft. Winds of 100 knots scattered passengers and debris along an 88-mile corridor over an area of 845 square miles. Two hundred and seventy people from 21 countries died, including 11 people on the ground. Known as the Lockerbie bombing and the Lockerbie air disaster in Britain, it became the subject of that country's largest criminal inquiry,...

At the invitation of UPI, Jon Loose and I wrote this op-ed and submitted it a week ago. UPI told us that every single person who read it there said that this was not commentary but that it was news. They have told us they were assigning staff to cover this story. Since Newsmax has broken the story, I thought it time to put out information that has not yet come to light. The Cost of Life By Jon Loose and Connie Hair Hindsight is always 20/20. You see causes and proactive avenues that could have altered the outcome. Sometimes ...

15 years ago he was a mass murderer. This week he became Blair's new friend FRASER NELSON POLITICAL EDITOR IT WAS a triumphant Tony Blair who arrived home from the European Union summit yesterday - and with reason. The journalists who flew on the plane with him could only declare his trip to Libya a resounding success. It could easily have been a disaster. Colonel Gaddafi probably ordered the Lockerbie bomb and has certainly armed the IRA. He remains the head of a military dictatorship. He was, for years, ranked among Britain’s greatest enemies. When Tony Blair walked out of...

Alleged spy for Iraq gave Lockerbie depositionFormer Democrat congressional aide was at center of CIA controversy Posted: March 12, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Sherrie Gossett© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Former journalist and congressional press secretary Susan Lindauer, who was arrested yesterday on charges she acted as an Iraqi spy before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, came to the forefront of politics in 1994 over a controversial meeting she had with an alleged CIA operative based in Syria. That meeting resulted in her giving a deposition in the Lockerbie bombing trial that suggested Libya was innocent of the bombing. The 1994 deposition received...

Fifteen years ago, on a cold and ultimately chilling evening just four days before Christmas, Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London’s Heathrow Airport bound for New York City. Among the 259 passengers and crew were 189 Americans. They never made it home. Less than 40 minutes into the flight, the plane exploded over the sky above Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone on board and 11 Scots on the ground. Until 9/11/01, it was the world’s most lethal act of air terrorism and the largest and most complex act of international terrorism ever investigated by the FBI. Solving the case...

When Libya went public this week that it was cooperating with the U.S., and planning to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, this should have come as no surprise to NewsMax.com’s Insider Report subscribers. That’s because NewsMax had the story first. In our September 27, 2003 edition of Insider Report we revealed the following: “The U.S. is making up with Libya's Khadafy after he agreed to pay $2.7 billion for blowing up Pan Am 103. “Typically, money can't make restitution for an act of war. But one of our moles says that since the mid-'90s, Khadafy has been assisting the...

<p>But relatives of the victims of the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, said any deal with the government of Col. Moammar Gadhafi would amount to rewarding terror.</p> <p>President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Friday that Libya had pledged to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs was met with a variety of reactions.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Families of Pan Am flight 103 victims are expressing outrage over reports that a former Libyan intelligence officer who was convicted in the 1988 Pan Am bombing is serving his prison sentence in luxury.</p> <p>State Department spokesman Adam Ereli acknowledged Thursday that the department has been contacted about the circumstances of the Libyan's incarceration.</p>

Libya last night accepted civil liability for the Lockerbie bombing in an historic bid to rejoin the family of nations. The admission was contained in a letter to the United Nations Security Council, delivered after last-minute delays caused by the New York power blackout. The letter clears the way for the families of each of the 270 victims - 55 of whom were British - to receive compensation of more than £3 million per family, in return for the lifting of United Nations sanctions on Libya. A senior US official said the letter would renounce terrorism, pledge co-operation in future...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Americans who lost loved ones in the Lockerbie bombing slammed France as "utterly disgraceful," "meddling" and "ridiculous", after it threatened to block a compensation deal with Libya. Paris has threatened to veto the lifting of United Nations sanctions against Libya, mandated under a deal in which Tripoli agreed to pay 2.7 billion dollars to relatives of victims of the bombing. "I think it is ridiculous; it's blackmail," Glenn Johnson, whose daughter Beth Ann died in the disaster, said after a meeting with top US officials. Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988,...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A massive power outage that hit the East Coast and parts of Canada put world diplomacy on hold at the United Nations on Friday, shutting down the building. Emergency teams were on duty and the Security Council staff office remained open, using power from an emergency generator. Power was expected to be restored to all of New York later on Friday, but a council official said nothing was anticipated for the day. There was no word on a highly anticipated letter from Libya that was expected to accept responsibility for the 1988 mid-air bombing of Pan...

Don't Lift the Sanctions on LibyaBy Nile Gardiner, James Phillips and Peter BrookesHeritage Foundation | August 15, 2003 The Libyan government has announced that it will pay $2.7 billion in compensation to the families of the 270 victims of the 1988 Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, including 189 Americans.[1] The compensation offer is expected to result in a UN Security Council resolution calling for the lifting of sanctions against Tripoli, which have been in place since 1992 (the sanctions were suspended in 1999 after Libya surrendered two officials indicted for organizing the Lockerbie bombing). The resolution is likely to be sponsored...

<p>LONDON &#8212; France threatened yesterday to block a deal for Libya to pay $2.7 billion in compensation for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, demanding that it receive payments from Libya for a 1989 airline explosion over Niger.</p> <p>The French threat surfaced as Libya and families of the Lockerbie victims separately announced the agreement to pay families of 270 persons killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Scotland.</p>

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- France is holding up the settlement for families of the victims of the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, because it wants Libya to pay more for the bombing of a French UTA airliner in 1989, a U.S. official said Thursday. Wednesday, lawyers for Libya and for families of the 270 Pan Am victims agreed on a framework for $2.7 billion in compensation. As part of the deal, Libya was to send a letter to the United Nations officially accepting responsibility for the bombing and agreeing to pay compensation to each family in exchange for...

LONDON (AFP) - Libya's ambassador to Britain confirmed a deal to pay compensation for the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing, but said France was threatening to block the lifting of UN sanctions on his country, a key condition of the accord. French Foreign Minister "Dominique de Villepin telephoned his Libyan counterpart, Abdel Rahman Chalgam yesterday (Wednesday) and and threatened that France would block the lifting of sanctions if it did not receive compensation in the UTA affair," Mohammed Al-Zouai told AFP here Thursday. That was a reference to the 1989 explosion over Niger a place belonging to French...