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Africa North
Lockerbie bomber found in Libya close to death
2011-08-29
Not close enough...
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has been tracked down in Tripoli, dashing rumors that he had been taken out of the Libyan capital, The Telegraph and other news organizations are reporting.

Earlier, U.S. politicians had called on Libyan leaders to turn over al-Megrahi and that Libya's new ruling council would not. Before this most recent discovery, al-Megrahi has surfaced on occasion in Libya.

Al-Megrahi was discovered by news hounds from CNN comatose and near death, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip.
Link to the CNN story, with video here.
Oxygen tubes and IV lines can be disconnected quickly. He might just spring out of bed and laugh at us. I'd rather we be sure.
CNN reporters have been known to believe the most amazing whoppers, especially when the company really wants access.
The cancer-stricken former Libyan intelligence officer is being cared for by his family at his Tripoli villa.
Ah, good. Die slowly, sucker.
"We just give him oxygen," al-Megrahi's son, Khalid al-Megrahi, told CNN. "Nobody gives us any advice."
Kerosene will add body to the drip. He'll be much more comfy.
Al-Megrahi may be the last person alive who knows who in the Libyan government ordered the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed all 259 people on board and 11 in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, below, in December 1988.

Al-Megrahi was freed from prison in 2009 in Scotland after serving eight years of a life sentence. Doctors treating him for prostate cancer gave him three months to live. Authorities released him on compassionate grounds.
Posted by:Fred

#5  "Tried"? Trials are useful when there are genuine, material issues of fact to resolve. Here, I think we could skip the two-ring circus and proceed straight to step B.
Posted by: RandomJD   2011-08-29 09:56  

#4  al-MegaShifty was supposed to be close to death two years ago. Daffy was the one who ordered the bombing. Both should be tried and swing for the Pan Am 103 bombing. Justice is waiting for these two.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-08-29 09:45  

#3  connect the oxygen to the intravenous. Double plus good
Posted by: Frank G   2011-08-29 08:43  

#2  can he be rendered unto justice now?
Posted by: anon1   2011-08-29 05:13  

#1  Authorities released him on compassionate grounds.

That is the public line. Follow the money. Scottish govt sellouts, and Brit govt at the time. *spit*
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2011-08-29 00:07  

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