• Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead
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[QUOTE]Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Megrahi, 59, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001. He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds. He was suffering from cancer and was said to have only months to live. When he returned to the Libyan capital, he received a hero's welcome. Shortly before being freed, Megrahi dropped his second appeal against his conviction. His release sparked the fury of many of the relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie disaster. Died at home His brother Abdulhakim said on Sunday that Megrahi's health had deteriorated quickly and he died at home in Tripoli. He told the AFP news agency that Megrahi died at 13:00 local time (11:00 GMT). Last month, Megrahi's son said his father had been taken to hospital for blood transfusions. Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, always denied any responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. It remains the deadliest terrorist incident ever to have taken place on British soil. Investigators tracing the origins of scraps of clothes wrapped around the bomb followed a trail to a shop in Malta which led them, eventually, to Megrahi. Last August after the fall of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, Megrahi was reported to be "in and out of a coma" at his home in Tripoli. There have been calls for him to be returned to jail in the UK or tried in the US. But shortly after they toppled Colonel Gaddafi, Libyan rebel leaders said they would not extradite Megrahi or any other Libyan.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18137896[/url] he should of died in prison the cunt
That was long few months left to live. Can we get on with something else now?
I knew nothing about the bombing so I looked up the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103]wiki article.[/url] Reading about how the aircraft destruction went is giving me chills.
[quote]But shortly after they toppled Colonel Gaddafi, Libyan rebel leaders said they would not extradite Megrahi or any other Libyan.[/quote] Bunch of ungrateful cunts.
Well good riddance I suppose.
I am from Scotland. I remember that day well. It was complete bull shit that he was let out. He deserved to fucking rot in prison.
bout fucking time he died, my dad was one of the people that had to pick up bits of people off his farm.
Good riddance. For his crime he should not have been allowed to die peacefully at home, considering how many lives he destroyed.
[QUOTE=krakadict;36027352] But shortly after they toppled Colonel Gaddafi, Libyan rebel leaders said they would not extradite Megrahi or any other Libyan.[/QUOTE] Oh [i]OK[/i]
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;36027787]I knew nothing about the bombing so I looked up the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103]wiki article.[/url] Reading about how the aircraft destruction went is giving me chills.[/QUOTE] Its horrifying to think people survived the blast and regained consciousness as the aircraft fell to a low altitude. My parents told me stories about it.. He should have never been let out.
Looks like his cancer ran on Valve time.
wait so who the fuck thought it was a good idea to let him out? compassionate grounds is the most bullshit thing for somebody who killed 270 people [editline]20th May 2012[/editline] i remember reading the thread when he was let out too
Well he wasn't being rehabilitated in prison so keeping him accomplished nothing. He was also extremely old already so why punish him?
it's hard to imagine a worse crime that a single person could commit. what a horrible little shit.
[QUOTE=King Tiger;36035792]Well he wasn't being rehabilitated in prison so keeping him accomplished nothing. He was also extremely old already so why punish him?[/QUOTE] 60 isn't extremely old but the fact he reserved a hero's welcome and how he blew those people to smithereens is enough to hate him.
Why didn't he pick a target that would actually further his goals? Like a military base or government building? Pick the fight with the ones that have "wronged" you; not with innocents.
[QUOTE=zombieslaya;36028008]Bunch of ungrateful cunts.[/QUOTE] The "any other Libyan" bit is a bit shitty, but I am pretty sure they would have had no legal ground to "extradite" Megrahi back to the UK anyway, he had been charged, found guilty and then released. Its not like he was a wanted man at the time. [editline]21st May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Zambies!;36036144]Why didn't he pick a target that would actually further his goals? Like a military base or government building? Pick the fight with the ones that have "wronged" you; not with innocents.[/QUOTE] Nobody knows what his motivation was, there is a decreasingly small number of people out there that know who ordered it and why. However, if the theory about the Iranian passenger plane is the "right" theory then it would make sense, the Americans killed a few hundred innocent people so they kill a few hundred (mostly American) innocent people.
Too bad he didn't contract Ebola and died horribly, stupid piece of shit. Should never have let him out.
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