The Lockerbie bomber could survive for 10 years or longer, according to the cancer specialist who said last year he would be dead within three months of his release.This is what happens when you try to be nice to these people. Being nice doesn't work. Killing them works.
Professor Karol Sikora, who assessed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi for the Libyan authorities almost a year ago, told The Sunday Times newspaper it was “embarrassing” that he had outlived his three-month prognosis.
The Scottish government provoked outrage from the United States when it released Megrahi from prison in August 2009 on compassionate grounds because he is suffering from terminal cancer.
Megrahi is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of a US Pan Am jumbo jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which left 270 people dead.
But the newspaper claimed that Sikora, the dean of medicine at Buckingham University in southern England, was the only expert the Libyan authorities could find who would agree to put the three-month estimate on Megrahi’s life.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Nice Going, Scots
Remember the Lockerbie bomber who was released from custody in Scotland because he had cancer and had only 3 months to live? He received a hero's welcome in Libya and many months later is still doing fine:
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please be assured that there was also enormous outrage in much of the UK, too.
The sanctimonious speech by the Scottish Justice Secretary was ripped to shreds by every sentient being, and most politicians.
One could argue that the medical expert was terribly flawed in his analysis of the terrorist's maladies, however, the real travesty was the political response. The proper treatment of the terrorist should have been to retain custody and treat to mitigate medical issues. Release was an insult to justice.
Maybe the terrorist's prognosis improved once he was out from under the National Health Service.
Good point, Nightingale.
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