London – Seemingly objective medical advice used to justify the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was actually paid for by Libya, sources say.
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Al-Megrahi, 57, who has terminal prostate cancer, was released from a Scottish jail last month on compassionate grounds when a three-doctor team advised the Scottish government he had only three months to live. But the doctors delivering the opinion were paid for by the Libyan government, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
The release of al-Megrahi, the only Libyan terrorist convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan American jet that killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland, was greeted with international condemnation. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill granted al-Megrahi’s release based in part on the findings of the medical panel that his case qualified for compassionate grounds, which is defined as prisoner having three months or less to live.
The Sunday Telegraph said two of the three doctors provided three-month estimates, with the third also reportedly indicating that the prisoner had a short time to live — a prognosis one of the doctors said was encouraged by the Libyans.
“The figure of three months was suggested as being helpful (by the Libyans),” Dr. Karol Sikora told the newspaper.
I cannot believe they would rely on Libyan medical advice…this is a shanda.
Y didn’t they inject the lethal drug to prove it?
They should be investigated & licenses revoked if found to be true.
I think the Government of Gordon Brown should call a no confedence vote already, & allow new elections. They are embarrassing the one time empire, it seems as though the sun has set on Great Britain.
How do you prove it? Just because it makes good headlines doesn’t make it the truth. On the other hand these days when patriotism is only about more money in your pocket who knows maybe it is true…
Oh I wish president reagan was still president , he would have never landed in libya
A major problem in medical halacha is the ne’emanus of the rofeh. There have been quite a few cases wherein the rofeh’s statements are suspect, and an investigation reveals that the rofeh had a vested interest in the outcome, either for financial or philosophical reasons. Buyer beware! Rabbonim need to take this into account.
What is Michael Savages life span? Maybe they will take him off theyr terrorist list for that?
I daven every day that scientists will soon discover a safe, clean, alternative energy source to replace oil. Once the world no longer needs oil to survive, all of these barbarians, from Chavez in Venezuela to that vilde chaya in Iran to the fat-bellied despots in Saudi Arabia will lose all of their power. I hope to see it in my lifetime.
nice pajamas! do all the patients thgere have those kind of hospital garb?
why does he need glasses? to see the malach hamoves?
This can only happen in the socialsit country of what used to be Great Britian. I can’t wait to see Gorden Brown resign!
But now I have rush at to believe that the fit domain is an enigma, a innocuous poser that is made terrible on our own fuming attempt to spell out it as supposing it had an underlying truth.