Lockerbie bomber's health "greatly improved"

Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 11:19 AM Share

Seven months after he was released from British prison with supposedly only three months to live, convicted Pan-Am bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi is apparently doing just fine: 

The health of the freed Lockerbie bomber has 'greatly improved' now he is home in Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's son boasted yesterday.

He said Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi was doing much better since being released seven months ago by the Scots on compassionate grounds because he had 'only three months to live'.

In words which will confirm the suspicions of Lockerbie victims' families, Saif Gaddafi - widely tipped to succeed his father as Libyan leader - also finally admitted that the convicted killer's release had dominated trade talks with Britain.


This would have included discussions about lucrative oil deals, despite the fact that Megrahi was officially released purely on compassionate grounds. Five months after the release, Libya announced plans to invest £5billion in the UK.  [...]

London-educated Saif Gaddafi told the respected Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that Megrahi 'was sick and was released for humanitarian reasons, and was soon in better health and in a good condition. His future is now in God's hands'.

More bad news for Gordon Brown. 

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KRYPTER

2:22 PM ET

March 16, 2010

Let this be a lesson

And this is why convicted terrorists should be executed: so that duplicitous and naive politicians alike cannot later use them as bargaining chips for unsavoury deals. All the prisoners at Guantanamo prison should likewise have been hanged, as a salutary lesson. Now those mass murderers are laughing at us instead.

 

ASANDERS28

7:58 PM ET

March 16, 2010

What The Heck?!

This is quite a travesty of justice. The Largest Media Outlets were very quick to pick up on the fact that Brown was being "compassionate". I'd like to hear about this on CNN here in the US.

 

GRANT

8:04 AM ET

March 17, 2010

Is Libya actively trying to

Is Libya actively trying to kill it's relations with the West? Suggestions of breaking up nations, demanding jihad, openly welcoming this guy. I have a great sense of sympathy for the Libyan diplomats who have to try to explain his actions abroad.

 

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