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| Libya paid for medical advice that helped Lockerbie bomber's release |
| 2009-09-06 |
| Could also be filed under under Lurid Crime Tales - for the actions of the British Labour Government and the Nationalist Scottish 'Government', as much as the Libyans'. And Seedy Politicians, natch. The British, Scottish and Libyan governments connived to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Medical evidence that helped Megrahi, 57, to be released was paid for by the Libyan government, which encouraged three doctors to say he had only three months to live. The life expectancy of Megrahi was crucial because, under Scottish rules, prisoners can be freed on compassionate grounds only if they are considered to have this amount of time, or less, to live. Megrahi is suffering from terminal prostate cancer. Two of the three doctors commissioned by the Libyans provided the required three-month estimates, while the third also indicated that the prisoner had a short time to live. This contrasted with findings of doctors in June and July who had concluded that Megrahi had up to 10 months to live, which would have prevented his release. Professor Karol Sikora, one of the examining doctors and the medical director of CancerPartnersUK in London, told The Sunday Telegraph: "The figure of three months was suggested as being helpful [by the Libyans]. To start with I said it was impossible to do that [give a three-month life expectancy estimate] but, when I looked at it, it looked as though it could be done -- you could actually say that." He said that he and a second doctor, a Libyan, had legitimately then estimated Megrahi's life expectancy as "about three months". A third doctor would say only that he had a short time to live. This weekend it was reported that Megrahi was moved out of an emergency care unit in Tripoli. The prognosis from the three doctors -- two from Britain -- was used as part of the evidence by Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, last month when he concluded that Megrahi should be released on compassionate grounds. Our investigation also reveals that: |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #2 If you cannot trust a Libyan Death Panel, who can you trust? |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-09-06 20:16 |
| #1 The Libyan leader had hoped for a warm embrace from the president, proving that he was no longer an international pariah. No problem here, nothing has changed. Warm it will certainly be. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-09-06 07:19 |