Showing posts with label Lockerbie Bombing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lockerbie Bombing. Show all posts

Why Our Enemies Laugh At Us

Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, left, convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland and released from prison in 2009, sits in a wheelchair at a pro-government rally in Tripoli last week in this image from Libyan state television. (Reuters / August 1, 2011)

For A Dead Guy, The Bomber Looks Good -- Chicago Tribune

Halfway up a wee hill, the fuselage had landed in the backyards of Rosebank Crescent. Bob Edgar … counted 18 bodies in his own backyard, many still in their seats. But the detail that will forever remain in his mind is how most of the passengers had crossed their fingers — and died that way.

Newsweek reconstruction of the 1988 crash of Pan American Flight 103.

"Four hundred parents lost a child, 46 parents lost their only child, 65 women were widowed, 11 men lost their wives, 140 (people) lost a parent, seven lost both parents."

Scottish prosecutor Colin Boyd at the 2001 trial of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.

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My Comment: I hate to admit, but my blood boils every-time I read a story about this mass murderer.
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Lockerbie Bomber Still Alive. Shows Up At A Pro-Gaddafi Rally In Tripoli

Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Outrageous: Megrahi, left, was handed a minimum term of 27 years in jail for the attack, but served less than seven and a half years

Lockerbie Bomber Paraded On TV – Two Years After Being Freed Because He Was Dying Of Cancer -- Daily Mail

The Lockerbie bomber has been paraded on Libyan TV almost two years after his release from a UK prison because he was dying of cancer.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 59, has been feted as a hero in his home country since he was released from jail in 2009 ‘on compassionate grounds’.

The Libyan national was convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, killing all 259 passengers and crew on board the New York-bound Boeing 747, and 11 people in Lockerbie.

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More News On The Lockerbie Bomber

Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi seen at pro-Gaddafi rally in Tripoli -- The Guardian
Lockerbie convict makes rare appearance in Libya -- Reuters
Lockerbie bomber 'appears on Libyan state television' -- The Telegraph
Lockerbie bomber at pro-Gaddafi gathering on state TV -- BBC
Lockerbie bomber shows up on Libyan TV -- UPI
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