My fiance made an interesting comment the other day about the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing that caused Flight 103 to crash into Lockerbie, Scotland. She pondered aloud about whether Mr. al-Megrahi was ill at all, and also the oil contracts that are pending between Libya and Britain.
I found her comment interesting in that I was thinking along similar lines–but then I can be a bit paranoid about such matters.
Scottish law dictates that compassionate release of prisoners requires, among other things, a medical diagnosis that indicates the patient have three months or less to live. The Scotsman is currently running a story indicating that the single doctor who made the diagnosis of terminal prostate cancer for al-Megrahi may not have been qualified to make the diagnosis or (more darkly) was in the hire of either al-Megrahi’s legal team or the Libyan government. At this time the Scottish government will not release details about the physician involved.
Homecoming for al-Megrahi
It appears that the decision to release the convicted murderer of 259 people aboard the airliner, and 11 people in the village of Lockerbie, was based upon a diagnosis by this single doctor, and Scottish parliamentarians on both sides of the aisle are demanding details. It also appears that the British government has traded a terrorist for favorable oil contract options with Libya.
Updates to follow…
