 The Lockerbie bomber had £1.8m ($2.9 million USD) in a Swiss bank account when he was convicted eight years ago, it has been revealed. The Crown Office, Scotland’s equivalent of the Crown Prosecution Service, has confirmed it refused to grant bail to Abdel Baset al-Megrahi as recently as November last year because of concerns he might try to gain access to the money. The existence of such a large sum in a personal account casts doubt on claims by the Libyan government that Megrahi was a low-ranking airline worker. The disclosure also raises further questions about the wisdom of the Scottish government in releasing the bomber, who has terminal prostate cancer, on compassionate grounds in August. Sources close to Megrahi’s defense team said they were aware of the bank account and had several explanations prepared ahead of his trial in the Netherlands in 2000. Click to continue reading at the Sunday Times FoxNews
 THE condition of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing and repatriated in August has deteriorated in Tripoli. A medical bulletin said today the cancer that afflicts him has spread through his body. "A scan has shown a worsening of the disease which has spread more than before,'' said the bulletin from the Tripoli Medical Centre where Megrahi is being treated for terminal cancer. The bulletin said Megrahi, 57, arrived at the hospital on Saturday coughing and vomiting. He was also suffering from "secondary effects of the sessions of chemotherapy'' that he has been undergoing, including a weight gain, high blood pressure and sugar in the blood along with muscular fatigue. "His condition was examined Saturday by a team of European experts who agreed on the continuation of chemotherapy sessions while also administering other medicaments to treat the disease,'' the hospital said in its first bulletin released since Megrahi's return in August. Under the terms of his release from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds, Megrahi cannot leave Tripoli or change his address and must keep in regular contact with East Renfrewshire Council. "We have now spoken to Mr Megrahi, who is in his house. There is no cause for alarm, he is in his house,'' said a spokesman for East Renfrewshire Council in western Scotland. Megrahi is the only person convicted over the December 1988 bombing of a New York-bound Pan Am Boeing 747 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which killed 270 people. He was freed on August 20 after doctors said he had only three months to live, and returned to a hero's welcome in Libya, angering relatives of those killed. His release also caused tensions between Britain, the devolved Scottish government and the United States and sparked questions about London's growing trade relationship with Tripoli. The Australian
 When the craven dhimmi Brits freed him for oil, they should have seen this coming a mile off. "Mystery as Lockerbie bomber goes missing from home and hospital," by Martin Fletcher, Tim Reid and Angus Macleod in The Times, December 16 The Lockerbie bomber appeared to have gone missing last night after he could not be reached at his home or in hospital. Libyan officials could say nothing about the whereabouts of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, and his Scottish monitors could not contact him by telephone. They will try again to speak to him today but if they fail to reach him, the Scottish Government could face a new crisis. Under the terms of his release from jail, the bomber cannot change his address or leave Tripoli, and must keep in regular communication with East Renfrewshire Council. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic and relatives of the 270 people who died in the 1988 bombing expressed anger about al-Megrahi's disappearance. Richard Baker, Labour's justice spokesman in the Scottish Parliament, said the whole affair was turning into a shambles and putting Scotland's reputation at risk. "This flags up just how ludicrous it is that East Renfrewshire Council, a local council thousands of miles away from Libya, is responsible for supervising al-Megrahi's conditions of licence," he said.... Relatives of the victims were furious in August when Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, released al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds because he was expected to die of prostate cancer within three months. On Sunday evening The Times called at the bomber's home in suburban Tripoli. A policeman sitting on a plastic chair outside was asked to deliver a message to al-Megrahi. He spoke no English, but indicated that al-Megrahi was not there. The next day The Times visited the Tripoli Medical Centre where al-Megrahi was treated soon after his return to Libya. The receptionists said that he had left the hospital some time ago. Back at al-Megrahi's home, there was no sign of activity. One of three security officers sitting in a grey Mercedes car outside said: "They've all gone." He refused to elaborate. Alerted by The Times, Jonathan Hinds of East Renfrewshire Council tried to telephone al-Megrahi at his home yesterday. He spoke to a Libyan man who said al-Megrahi was too ill to speak to him. Mr Hinds has called al-Megrahi every other Tuesday since August, and has always been able to speak to him. Yesterday was not one of the regular Tuesdays, so al-Megrahi would not have been expecting a call. "We will continue to attempt to call Mr Megrahi tomorrow and will then consider the situation," a council spokesman said. If there were grounds for suspecting al-Megrahi was breaching the terms of his release, "we would report that to the Scottish Government and it would be up to them to decide what action to take".... Even so, Bill Aitken, the Scottish Conservative justice spokesman, called for an immediate investigation.
He said: "This is outrageous and there will be intense anger that Britain's biggest mass murderer appears to be able to disappear."... Uh, yeah. With thanks to JihadWatch
 The disclosure will reignite the row over the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds despite his conviction for the murder of 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 exploded in mid-air over Lockerbie in 1988. Megrahi, who is suffering terminal prostate cancer, was sent home to Libya to die after medical experts concluded in a report on July 30 he had just three months left to live.
The time span was crucial because only prisoners with three months or less to survive are eligible for release on compassionate grounds. Within three weeks of the medical examination by Professor Karol Sikora, one of Britain's leading cancer specialists, Megrahi was put on a plane and sent home to Tripoli to die. But three months on from Prof Sikora's diagnosis, Megrahi is well enough to "walk and talk" and shows no sign of deterioration, according to a senior source involved in his release. The source told The Sunday Telegraph: "His condition has not deteriorated in three months.
He is pretty much in the same way as he was when this all started. He is just as he was. There is nothing that leads anyone to believe he is in any different condition to when he left Scotland." A frail-looking Megrahi was able to walk with the aid of a stick when he arrived back in Tripoli, amid jubilant scenes in the Libyan capital that caused widespread anger in the US and elsewhere. The source told The Sunday Telegraph that Megrahi, 57, is still able to talk and walk with a stick, contradicting claims from his family that he is bedridden, unable to speak and near to death. "He can still walk and he can still talk," said the source. Read more here,,,, Source: Telegraph
 SCOTTISH police are re-examining the evidence surrounding the 1988 Lockerbie bombing as they seek new suspects in connection with the attack that killed 270 people.
They said detectives are reviewing the case to establish who might have acted with Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
The former Libyan agent was freed from a Scottish jail on compassionate release in August after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He insists he is innocent but dropped his appeal against conviction prior to his release.
"Now that Mr Megrahi has decided to abandon his appeal against conviction, a further review of the case is under way in respect of others who acted with him in the murder of 270 people," said Patrick Shearer, chief of Dumfries and Galloway Police.
He added: "The work that is being undertaken is the latest in a series of reviews which have formed part of an investigative strategy in keeping with our determination to pursue every possible lead."
Megrahi, 57, was convicted in January 2001 at an extraordinary Scottish court convened in the Netherlands, but has always maintained his innocence.
His release and return to Libya was strongly opposed by the United States, where many of the victims had lived.
A spokeswoman for the Crown Office prosecuting authority in Scotland said there was “no question” of re-opening the case against him.
"The open case concerns only the involvement of others with Megrahi in the murder of 270 people and the Crown will continue to pursue such lines of inquiry that become available," she said.
"The trial court accepted the Crown's position that Mr Megrahi acted in furtherance of the Libyan intelligence services and did not act alone."
Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the BBC the investigation "was not formally closed and that's why it's wholly appropriate if there are grounds for taking new steps, that they should be taken."
The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported that four detectives were now working full-time on the case to follow up any new potential leads.
Jean Berkley, whose 29-year-old son Alistair died in the attack as he flew to New York to see his parents for the Christmas holidays, welcomed the news.
"It has to be encouraging that there is some kind of taking a fresh look,” the 79-year-old told AFP, adding: “We have to try to keep them to that."
Despite this, she and other relatives continue to demand a full public inquiry into who planned the bombing and why, and put this request to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a letter on Friday.
"We are still calling for an inquiry because there seem to be so many unanswered questions," Berkley said.
However, a spokesman for Brown's Downing Street office said: "It is our belief that nothing can be gained from a public inquiry."
 Harold Evans Judge Goldstone has been suckered into letting war criminals use his name to pillory Israel Aren't the British sickened by the moral confusions of their government? First, we have the weasel words to justify the unjustifiable release of the Lockerbie bomber. Now we have the sickening spectacle of Britain failing to stand by Israel, the only democracy with an independent judiciary in the entire region. It was to be expected that the usual suspects of the risible UN human rights council would be eager to condemn Israel for war crimes in defending itself against Hamas. If you treat people as the Chinese do the Tibetans or Uighurs ("Off with their heads!"); or as the Russians eliminate Chechen dissidents; or as the Nigerians tolerate extrajudicial killings, the evictions of 800,000, rape and cruel treatment of prisoners; or as the Egyptians get prisoners to talk (torture) and the Saudis suppress half their population … well, go through the practices of all 25 states voting to refer Israel to the security council for the Gaza war, and you have to acknowledge they know a lot about the abuse of humans. Anything to divert attention from their own atrocities. Only six refused to join the farce – Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Ukraine and the US. Britain didn't just abstain. It shirked voting at all (along with those beacons of civilisation Angola, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, and surprisingly, France). Of course, here the fig leaf for being scared of dictators, especially oil-rich abusers, is the report by the South African judge Richard Goldstone. Poor Judge Goldstone now regrets how his good name has been used to single out Israel.
The Swiss paper Le Temps reports him complaining that "This draft [UN human rights council] resolution saddens me … there is not a single phrase condemning Hamas as we have done in the report. I hope the council can modify the text." Fat hope. The truth is he was suckered into lending his good name to a half-baked report – read its 575 pages and see. He said that, as a Jew himself, he was surprised to be invited. He shouldn't have been, and should never have accepted leadership of a commission whose terms of reference were designed to excuse the aggressor, Hamas, and punish the defender, Israel.
The council's decision was to "dispatch an urgent, independent, international fact-finding mission … to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by the occupying power, Israel, against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, due to the current aggression, and [it] calls upon Israel not to obstruct the process of investigation and to fully co-operate with the mission". Israel is not an "occupying power" in Gaza in either fact or international law. Four years ago it voluntarily pulled out all its soldiers and uprooted all its settlers.
Here was a wonderful chance for Gaza to be the building block of a Palestinian state, and for Hamas to do what the Israelis did – take a piece of land and build a model state. They didn't. Instead of helping the desperate Palestinians, they conducted a religious war. Read more here,,,, Source: The Guardian
 BRITAIN secretly offered to pay £14 million to Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi as part of a deal to end his country's support for Irish paramilitary group the IRA, according to a report. The offer, worth £500 million today, was made during negotiations in the 1970s the government of then prime minister Harold Wilson held with Libya aimed at halting the supply of weapons to the now-defunct Irish Republican Army, documents seen by The Independent show.
The deal on the IRA was part of a package of compensation measures to appease the Libyan leader and help open up British trade with the north African state in the 1970s, the newspaper said.
It quoted a “personal message” from Wilson to Gaddafi in which it said the prime minister made clear the government was prepared to pay Libya in return for ending material support for the IRA.
“I do not want to anticipate the results of the forthcoming talks, which we shall enter into in a truly constructive spirit, but it might be helpful nevertheless to mention two questions of particular importance to us.”
“The first of these concerns Northern Ireland,” Wilson wrote in 1975.
The letter is among documents released to Britain's National Archives.
The paper said by the end of the 1970s it was clear negotiations had failed, with Gaddafi holding out for a payment of £51 million, or the equivalent of £1.5 billion today.
Britain's Foreign Office said it was unaware of any offer to Gaddafi, who admits having supported the IRA. Much of the material in its arsenal dumps came from Libya.
Libya has said it will resist demands for compensation over attacks by the IRA, who killed more than 1000 people during their armed campaign to rid Northern Ireland of British sovereignty through violence.
Britain's dealings with oil-rich Libya have come under intense scrutiny following the release in August of the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, a move that sparked anger in the United States.
Former Libyan intelligence agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish government because he has terminal prostate cancer.
The 1988 bombing of a Pan Am plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, Britain's worst-ever terror attack, killed 270 people. Source: The Australian
 BY DAVID SCHENKER Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi, once a terrorism-sponsoring pariah, is on the brink of rehabilitation. Can he hold his tongue long enough to pull it off? Today, Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi arrives in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly. Although he hasn't touched down yet, the colonel is already fraying nerves.
In the spring, with the Obama administration in the White House, the old tensions between Washington and Tripoli had started to ease. At the July summit of the G-8 in Italy, President Barack Obama and Qaddafi had one of those handshakes often described as "historic."
But, last month, Libya affronted many by giving the Lockerbie bomber a hero's welcome. (A Scottish court had convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi of killing 270, including 189 Americans, by blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.
In August, a judge granted the bomber compassionate release as he is terminally ill.) More recently, the State Department has had to scramble to find appropriate accommodations for Libya's quixotic leader after New York City and New Jersey said they wouldn't allow him to pitch his tent. Most of all, workers in Foggy Bottom are wringing their hands because Qaddafi has a long history of making humiliating statements when he has an international stage. Thus, as he arrives for a week in the Big Apple, one question looms large: Will Qaddafi restrain himself, helping foster the quiet U.S.-Libya diplomatic rapprochement, or will he let loose, shoot from the hip, and foment outrage? European leaders have been the most recent victims of the Qaddafi treatment. In the past two years alone, the Libyan leader has managed to embarrass French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and, most recently, Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz.
In the last case, Qaddafi upbraided Merz after Swiss authorities arrested his son, Hannibal Qaddafi, for assaulting two maids at a Geneva hotel. The Libyan colonel managed to shame Merz into traveling to Tripoli to issue a public apology -- after, allegedly, threatening to cut Libya's bank deposits and oil exports to Switzerland. With the Swiss public far from amused, Merz's humiliating actions might cost him his job. Read more here,,,, Source: Foreign Policy
 The Lockerbie bomber’s online publication of legal documents that he says clear his name has been condemned by Scotland’s law chief as well as victims’ families. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was released last month from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, has set up a Web site detailing an abandoned attempt to appeal his conviction for the 1988 bombing of Pan AM flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Scotland’s Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini on Sunday deplored the move, accusing al-Megrahi of seeking a "retrial by media." And the mother of one of the victims described it as an "unnerving" act of propaganda. Al-Megrahi has always protested his innocence over the bombing that killing 270 people — mostly Americans. He abandoned a second appeal against his conviction when the Scottish government allowed him to return to Libya after he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. Click here to read more on this story from the Times of London. Source: FoxNews
 A GROUP of controversial Muslim clerics funded by Colonel Gaddafi are set to make appearances at three Midland Mosques. Eleven preachers sponsored by the World Islamic Call Society (Wics), which was founded, led and paid for by the Libyan leader, will be holding events in Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham during Ramadan. The speeches come just a month after the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Ali Al Megrahi caused a storm between Britain and the US when he returned to a hero’s welcome in Tripoli.
And in a recent speech, Colonel Gaddafi said that the aim of Wics was to convert the whole of Europe to Islam. He said: “This religion shall overcome all other religions before it. Their time has gone. It is his promise, Allah shall prevail this religion over the rest. “There are tens of millions of Muslims in the European continent and the number is on the increase. The number of indigenous Europeans is falling drastically. “This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted to Islam. Europe will one day be a Muslim continent.” Read more here,,,, Source: Sunday Mercury
 TRADE deals with Libya played a "very big part" in Britain's decision to include the Lockerbie bomber in a prisoner transfer deal with Tripoli, a Government minister acknowledged in an interview. Justice Secretary Jack Straw told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper that trade and an oil exploration deal between BP and Libya were factors in deciding whether to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi eligible for transfer to a prison back home. However, his spokesman insisted Megrahi's release was not agreed because any possible transfer was always subject to a veto by the Scottish authorities. Asked if trade and oil were part of the discussions, Straw said: "Yes, a very big part of that. I'm unapologetic about that... Libya was a rogue state. We wanted to bring it back into the fold. "And yes, that included trade because trade is an essential part of it and subsequently there was the BP deal." Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of a plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie which killed 270 people, was released last month on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill. Scotland rejected a prison transfer for Megrahi. Yet London has been forced to deny allegations that it struck a deal with Libya to free him in return for improved trade ties. Documents released this week show Mr Straw initially opposed including Megrahi in the prison transfer agreement due to opposition from Scotland - but changed his mind, citing "wider negotiations" with Tripoli. At the time, talks on the ratification of a huge oil deal between BP and Libya had become bogged down. The $US900 million ($1.07 billion) deal was ratified in January 2008 shortly after Mr Straw's change of mind. Libyan Foreign Minister Musa Kusa said in an interview that trade had nothing to do with Megrahi's release. "You should not do an injustice to the British government," he told The Times from Tripoli. "It was nothing to do with trade. If we wished to bargain we would have done it a long time ago." BP said on Friday it had lobbied Britain to speed up the agreement with Libya to improve business relations, but denied pressing for Megrahi to be released. Source: The Australian
 The disclosure threatens to undermine the Government's determinedly neutral stance over the release of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi.
It could also deepen the rift with the Obama administration, which has demanded answers from the Government over its role in the affair.
Papers released by the Scottish government included the minutes of a meeting earlier this year during which a Libyan official stated that Bill Rammell, then a foreign office minister, had told Tripioli that neither the Prime Minister nor David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, "would want Mr Megrahi to pass away in prison".
Britain is under pressure over the decision to strike a prisoner transfer deal with Libya. Revelations that Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, believed that such a deal would be in the overwhelming interests of the UK have infuriated US diplomats.
The release of documents in both London and Edinburgh also show the pressure being applied by business leaders on Scotland to release al-Megrahi.
Lord Trefgarne, of the Libyan British Business Council, wrote saying that the possibility of al-Megrahi dying in prison would have "serious implications for UK-Libyan relations".
If his return under the prisoner agreement was not possible then the executive should consider compassionate release, the Tory peer added.
Mr Rammell, who visited Tripoli in February, did not dispute Libyan claims about the views he attrributed to Mr Brown and Mr Miliband. He said the decision to release al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds had been one for the Scottish government.
Downing Street sources did not comment directly on the claims but they pointed out that even the words attributed to Mr Rammell had been followed by an explicit statement that the matter of al-Megrahi's future was for the Scottish executive to decide.
David Cameron accused Mr Brown of double dealing and demand an inquiry: "The Prime Minister has got to be straight with the British people."
 The Times gained access to the dress rehearsal of a spectacular two-hour show which extols Colonel Gaddafi for reviving his country and restoring Arab pride. As the finale approaches, the screen at the back of the giant stage in Tripoli's Green Square shows Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi stepping off the plane that brought him home from his Scottish prison two weeks ago. His arms are raised aloft by Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif, as he acknowledges the joyful reception from the crowd below. Unless it is cut out at the last minute, the clip's inclusion seems almost calculated to provoke the West. Britain and the US had urged Libya to keep Megrahi's homecoming low-key. US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown both expressed disgust when he was given what appeared to be a rapturous welcome at Tripoli airport. It flew in the face of repeated assurances by Libyan officials, including Saif Gaddafi, that the reception was muted and not intended as a display of gloating. Megrahi himself is now in hospital, seriously ill with prostate cancer. Anxious to dampen down the controversy caused by Megrahi's release, Britain is expected to send only a junior representative to the ceremonies. The British embassy in Tripoli said that the ambassador Vincent Fean was in Malta, suggesting the job would be left to a more junior diplomat. "We are still considering the level of representation," a spokesman said. Other European states are sending ministers, ambassadors or official delegations, but the President of Malta is thought to be the only European head of state attending. However, the audience will include a large number of African leaders and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. Read more here,,,, Source: The Australian
 By Dr. Walid Phares The release by Scottish authorities of convicted Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Baset al-Megrahi from prison has created one of the most negative emotional reactions in the United States and other countries. Moved by anger toward the injustice displayed by Scottish authorities to the families and survivors of the victims of the terror attack against Pan Am Flight 103, Americans and large segments of international public opinion are infuriated by the freeing of the convicted terrorist, even under the so-called Scottish legal values based on compassionate release due to terminal illness. These exceptional stipulations, when applicable, are designed for criminal cases where one person killed another individual under complex circumstances. A sudden terminal illness is perceived as enough punishment by nature or the divine to grant a severely conditioned release to the family, without any affront to justice and pain to the survivors of the victim. But that is one thing. Granting freedom to a terrorist who murdered hundreds of innocents civilians bound on an airplane is something that no Scottish, British, American, or international legal value permits. The statements made by Scotland’s minister of justice should not stand in this case. This was no regular murder. This was a mass murder, and compassionate release can only be granted by the survivors of the victims, and should have been legally considered by the national legislatures in Britain and the United States. Read more ...Source: FSMScottish Government
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 The UK government has denied that the release of Adbelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, had any connection to trade ties with Libya. A report in The Sunday Times, a British newspaper, alleged that an oil deal had influenced the decision to transfer al-Megrahi from prison in Scotland to his home in Libya last week. The newspaper said that it had ascertained leaked letters written by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, in 2007 in which he said that it was "in the overwhelming interest of the United Kingdom" not to exclude al-Megrahi from a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya. Straw had written to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who made the formal decision to release al-Megrahi. Six weeks after the letter was written an oil deal between Libya and BP, a UK oil firm, was formalised. Following The Sunday Times' article Straw said that the prisoner transfer agreement was part of an attempt to end Libya's international isolation following Tripoli's abandonment of a nuclear weapons programme. "What is totally untrue is that any part of these negotiations with the Libyans was that at some stage Mr Megrahi would be released," Straw said. He said that the Scottish government maintained veto power over any prisoner transfer and had rejected such a move for al-Megrahi, rather choosing a compassionate release. "The implication that, somehow or other, we have done some backdoor deal in order to release Mr Megrahi is simply nonsense," Straw said. Al-Megrahi was convicted of bombing a Pan Am flight over the Scotish town of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people. He was freed on compassionate grounds, as he is said to be suffering from terminal cancer. Al-Megrahi was admitted to a Tripoli hospital on Sunday after his condition deteriorated rapidly. Read more here,,,, Source: Al Jazeera (English)
 August 29THE man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people said he would co-operate with a fresh public inquiry and provide documents he has.Former Libyan agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the bombing, told Scotland's Herald daily the victims' families deserved to know the truth about Pan Am flight 103, which crashed into the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. Scotland freed Megrahi, 57, last week on compassionate grounds after eight years in jail because he is dying of cancer. His release, and his rapturous reception on his return to Tripoli, has dismayed the US Government which lost 189 citizens in the bombing. "I support the issue of a public inquiry if it can be agreed," Megrahi told the newspaper. "In my view, it is unfair to the victims' families that this has not been heard. It would help them to know the truth. As I said, the truth never dies. "If the UK guaranteed it, I would be very supportive. I would want to help Dr Swire and the others with the documents I hold." Read more here ...
 July 10, 2009: Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, meets
Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi at the G8 Summit in L'Aquilla As questions swirl whether British Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid a dictator's ransom when he released the Lockerbie bomber last week, the Libyan strongman's son said it was "obvious" that efforts to free the convicted killer were tied to lucrative contracts with the oil-rich state. "Why be so angry?" asked Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi in an interview with the Scottish Herald, responding to the international uproar ignited as Scotland freed Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. Al-Megrahi, who is dying of prostate cancer, was sentenced to life in prison for the crime but served only 8 years of his sentence — just 11 days in prison for each of his victims. In the week since his release, pressure has been mounting on Brown to explain his government's role in securing the al-Megrahi's freedom, possibly as part of the so-called "deal in the desert" struck by Britain with Libya two years ago. Read more here ... Source: FoxNews
 Would you be happy, if a notorious terrorist-backer camped out in your neighborhood? Local New Jersey residents are furious as they see one coming to a field near them!By Michelle Malkin How much more suffering does the Obama administration want to inflict upon American relatives of the Lockerbie bombing murder victims? Watching Lockerbie terrorist Abdel Baset al-Megrahi walk free after serving a measly eight years of a life sentence was cruel enough. Next, Lockerbie families endured the despicable hero's welcome party thrown for Megrahi by Libyan thug Moammar Gadhafi. Soon after came reports that Megrahi, released by Scotland for "compassionate reasons" due to terminal prostate cancer diagnosed by a lone anonymous doctor, may not actually have less than three months to live. And now? Now, the Lockerbie families must prepare for the sight of Gadhafi jetting to New York City for a thug-of-the-month speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September -- topped off by a planned jaunt to Englewood, N.J., where the murder-stained jihadi financier wants to pitch a swank, air-conditioned Bedouin tent to greet well-wishers. Read more ... Source: FSM
By Michael Reagan At a time when civilized nations are continuing to wage a collective and challenging fight against terrorist organizations, and the rogue nations that harbor them, this week’s release by Scottish officials of one of the masterminds behind the 1988 Lockerbie bombing constitutes a major setback. Just as importantly, it has had a devastating effect on the families and friends of those lost at the hands of the cold-blooded killers. As many of you will recall, on December 21, 1988, a few short days before Christmas, a 747 en route from London to New York was downed by a bomb detonating while the plane was over the now-famous Lockerbie, Scotland. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members (189 of which were U.S. citizens) were killed as well as 11 innocents on the ground – one of the most shocking and costly terrorist acts preceding the events of 9/11. Shortly after the conclusion of an intense investigation, the United States and British authorities indicted two Libyan intelligence agents for their roles in the bombing -- in essence, concluding that the bombing was authorized by the Libyan government and carried out by the named suspects. Read more ...Source: FPM
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The Lockerbie bomber had £1.8m ($2.9 million USD) in a Swiss bank account when he was convicted eight years ago, it has been revealed.
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