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The Scottish government has decided to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi on "compassionate grounds" so that he could spend the last few months of his life with his family in Libya as he dies of cancer. This is so utterly despicable that it's beyond words. The government has just given this animal the opportunity that he denied to the families of 270 innocent people he murdered.

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Kent Lyon| 8.20.09 @ 10:52AM

Mr. al-Megrahi has terminal prostate cancer like I am the elephant man. Anyone with terminal prostate cancer would have been wheeled out in a wheelchair or rolled out on a guerney. Terminal prostate cancer at age 53 is distinctly uncommon. The assertion that he has metastatic terminal prostate cancer is a complete crock, a pretext, a lie. And if he did, prostate ca can be readily controlled in almost all cases by anti-androgen treatment. He is looking forward to a long and comfortable life if he returns to Libya. This looks like a pay-off for Khadafi, no more, no less, and a slap in the fact to international justice. When did the Scots become so pusillanimous? Are they afraid of their Muslim population? Things just don't add up here.

Rick V.| 8.20.09 @ 11:04AM

Returning home by air, huh? Just like all his victims. Imagine that.

Todd| 8.21.09 @ 11:13AM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....805321.ece

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