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| Lockerbie bomber home after emergency hospital stay | ||||
| 2012-04-17 | ||||
| The Libyan former intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people was released from a Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... hospital on Monday after receiving an emergency blood transfusion, his brother said. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was taken to a private hospital on Friday to receive a transfusion of eleven litres of blood,
Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as it flew to New York from London. All 259 people aboard the airliner were killed and 11 others on the ground in the Scottish town of Lockerbie died from falling wreckage. Britannia freed him in 2009 on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from advanced terminal prostate cancer and thought to have months to live. His release angered many relatives of the victims, 189 of whom were American, and the B.O. regime criticised the decision. A number of U.S. politicians have pressed for his extradition to the United States, something Libya's ruling National Transitional Council said it would not do. Megrahi, who served as an intelligence agent during the rule of Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy ... the like of whose wardrobe will never be seen again. At least that's what we hope... , denied any role in suspected human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses in his home country before Qadaffy's fall and death in a popular uprising last year | ||||
| Posted by:Beavis |