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Lockerbie bomber. Serve his sentence in Libya? What a joke!

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Viggen:
Well i just read and saw images on the the news that he is getting a heros treatment when he landed in Libya. I hope the cancer will make that a-hole  suffer for a long time in inmentionable ways. >:(

F-111 C/C:
Well at least our F-111s did their damage as a little bit of retribution.

AVIATOR:
This extract is from the BBC news this morning................

21:52 AEST Fri Aug 21 20098 hours 13 minutes ago


A hero's welcome given to the Lockerbie bomber in Libya sparked fury in the US and Britain which both warned Tripoli of serious diplomatic repercussions.

Hundreds of people waving Libyan and Scottish flags greeted Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi as he landed in Tripoli late on Thursday


They were waving Scottish flags? What?
Fury by the British government? What a joke!
Just what the hell is going on over there in that mad country [and I don't mean Libya]
Surely the British Home Office has the final say about this matter. To allow this mass murderer to be released by this mob of left wing radicals is beyond belief.

Bloody hell I wish we had some forum members from Scotland on here so the shooting could start.

AVIATOR:
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi arrives in Libya at Tripoli airport. Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP

Thousands of young men were on hand at the military airport in Tripoli where his plane landed. As he disembarked, cheering supporters, some wearing T-shirts bearing his picture, threw flower petals in the air and waved Libyan and miniature Scottish flags, while Libyan songs played in the background.



Wearing a dark suit and burgundy tie, Megrahi left the plane with the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif, who raised his hand to the crowd before they left. Megrahi was reportedly on his way to meet his 95-year-old mother.

Earlier on, in a carefully choreographed day, it took just 67 minutes to free the man who it had taken more than a decade to catch and convict for plotting Britain's worst terrorist atrocity, the bombing of Pan Am flight 103.

At 1pm, the Scottish justice secretary Kenny Macaskill told a press conference of his decision to free Megrahi because spreading prostate cancer is killing him.

At 2.29pm, the white A300 airliner touched down in Glasgow while at Greenock prison, Megrahi, frail and bowed by his illness, walked slowly into a prison van, his face swathed in a white scarf.

At 2.37pm, a small convoy of six police vehicles flanked by a police outriders swept him under the prison's arch. About 80 local residents had gathered outside the gate. Some shouted abuse while some cheered ironically, as the convoy passed.

Roads were closed as the convoy was shepherded through Greenock by its outriders and down the M8 to Glasgow airport, shadowed by a small squadron of police and TV helicopters.

At 3.09pm, Megrahi stepped from the van onto the airport tarmac, his face obscured by a white baseball cap and the scarf. After a handshake with prison guards, Megrahi leaned on a walking stick and pulled himself up the aircraft steps.

F-111 C/C:
Here's a scathing letter from FBI Director Robert Mueller to Scotland's Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6076025/Lockerbie-bomber-Letter-from-FBI-director-Robert-Mueller.html

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