news.bbc.co.uk - 8/20/2009
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People were surprised by the decision he made - the real question was whether they had a strong opinion about it. When the bombing happened 21 years ago, this town was full of army personnel and the emergency services and local people who helped that night became heroes. But it happened a ...
news.yahoo.com - 8/20/2009
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EDINBURGH, Scotland Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie
bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go...
home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people. The ...
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news.bbc.co.uk - 8/21/2009
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Lockerbie bomber's release agreed
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Edited on Thu Aug-20-09 09:24 AM by dipsydoodle Source: BBC News The Lockerbie bomber is to be released on compassionate grounds, the Scottish Government has announced. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jailed in 2001 for the atrocity which claimed 270 lives in 1988. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill revealed that the Libyan, who has terminal prostate cancer, would be allowed to return to his homeland. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8... He's definately be released within the next hour. This is our latest breaking TV news now. ...
LEAVIN' ON A JET PLANE.
JammieWearingFool —
[image] Well, as I forecast, the UK is setting the Lockerbie bomber free. On "compassionate" grounds. He's off on a private jet to Libya. The US Government has indicated it is unhappy with this decision. Better get used to it. When Blair was in charge, he forced his left wing colleagues to play ball. But he is gone and the UK has slunk further to the left and allowing a mass killer to walk free seems natural, noble even. This is socialism in action, there are no moral absolutes anymore and no crime goes unrewarded. Megrahi has terminal prostrate cancer. That is what killed my ...
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foxnews.com 8/20/2009 — Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting him go home to Libya to die and rejecting American pleas to show no mercy to the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.
Scotland and the Repudiation of America
hurryupharry.org 8/23/2009 — This is a guest post by Professor Tom Gallagher. Tom's new book, The Illusion of Freedom: Scotland Under Nationalism, is published next month
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