The recent release of Lockerbie bomber, Libyan Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, on compassionate grounds is getting more interesting. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has repeatedly said that this convicted mass murderer serving a life term in Scottish jail was released on medical evidence showing that Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi was terminally ill with prostate cancer and has three more months of life left.
Britain said that Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi was released not under a prisoner exchange deal but on compassionate grounds. But a recent report in the Sunday Telegraph said that Libya paid for the medical advice of the three doctors and it “encouraged” them to come to a consesus that Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi had just three months to live.
The three month life expectancy is cruicial because Scottish laws do not permit the release on compassionate grounds for any prisoner whose life expectancy is longer than that.
But the Scottish Government said that the doctors’ medical opinion was submitted too late and its Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill made the decision to free Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi without the benefit of that medical opinion.
Think about it. On what compassionate ground did Scotland decide to release the bomber who destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 if medical reports are excluded? Did the Scottish government’s own doctors examine Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi and come to the same conclusion about his life expectancy of less than three months? If not, then how was the release decision made? Has it got anything to do with trade?
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probably should include the news from today that the British government did indeed consult the US government on his release prior to returning him to Libya.
Despite the tepid rebukes that the US government is now giving the UK.