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Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60.
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Bermuda999
May 20, 2012, 9:02:40 AM5/20/12
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20 May 2012 Last updated at 08:57 ET
BBC
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead.
Megrahi, who had cancer, died at his home in Tripoli, his brother said
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Megrahi, 60, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001.
He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds. He was suffering from cancer and was said to have only months to live.
When he returned to the Libyan capital, he received a hero's welcome.
Shortly before being freed, Megrahi dropped his second appeal against his conviction.
His release sparked the fury of many of the relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie disaster.
Died at home
His brother Abdulhakim said on Sunday that Megrahi's health had deteriorated quickly and he died at home in Tripoli.
He told the AFP news agency that Megrahi died at 13:00 local time (11:00 GMT).
Last month, Megrahi's son said his father had been taken to hospital for blood transfusions.
Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, always denied any responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.
It remains the deadliest terrorist incident ever to have taken place on British soil.
Investigators tracing the origins of scraps of clothes wrapped around the bomb followed a trail to a shop in Malta which led them, eventually, to Megrahi.
He and another Libyan, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, were indicted by the Scottish and US courts in November 1991.
But Libya refused to extradite them. In 1999, after protracted negotiations, Libya handed the two men over for trial, under Scottish law but on neutral ground, the former US airbase at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.
Their trial began in May 2000. Ffiham was acquitted of all charges, but Megrahi was found guilty and sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in prison.
He served the first part of his sentence at the maximum-security prison at Barlinnie, in Glasgow, but was transferred in 2005 to Greenock prison.
Last August after the fall of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, Megrahi was reported to be "in and out of a coma" at his home in Tripoli.
There have been calls for him to be returned to jail in the UK or tried in the US.
But shortly after they toppled Colonel Gaddafi, Libyan rebel leaders said they would not extradite Megrahi or any other Libyan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18137896
BBC
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead.
Megrahi, who had cancer, died at his home in Tripoli, his brother said
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Megrahi, 60, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001.
He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds. He was suffering from cancer and was said to have only months to live.
When he returned to the Libyan capital, he received a hero's welcome.
Shortly before being freed, Megrahi dropped his second appeal against his conviction.
His release sparked the fury of many of the relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie disaster.
Died at home
His brother Abdulhakim said on Sunday that Megrahi's health had deteriorated quickly and he died at home in Tripoli.
He told the AFP news agency that Megrahi died at 13:00 local time (11:00 GMT).
Last month, Megrahi's son said his father had been taken to hospital for blood transfusions.
Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, always denied any responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.
It remains the deadliest terrorist incident ever to have taken place on British soil.
Investigators tracing the origins of scraps of clothes wrapped around the bomb followed a trail to a shop in Malta which led them, eventually, to Megrahi.
He and another Libyan, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, were indicted by the Scottish and US courts in November 1991.
But Libya refused to extradite them. In 1999, after protracted negotiations, Libya handed the two men over for trial, under Scottish law but on neutral ground, the former US airbase at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.
Their trial began in May 2000. Ffiham was acquitted of all charges, but Megrahi was found guilty and sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in prison.
He served the first part of his sentence at the maximum-security prison at Barlinnie, in Glasgow, but was transferred in 2005 to Greenock prison.
Last August after the fall of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, Megrahi was reported to be "in and out of a coma" at his home in Tripoli.
There have been calls for him to be returned to jail in the UK or tried in the US.
But shortly after they toppled Colonel Gaddafi, Libyan rebel leaders said they would not extradite Megrahi or any other Libyan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18137896
AndrewJ
May 20, 2012, 10:04:09 AM5/20/12
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Thirty-five of my Syracuse University classmates were killed in the Lockerbie bombing. Can't say I'm shedding many tears at Mr. Megrahi's passing.
-- Andrew
-- Andrew
Flybd5
May 20, 2012, 11:18:54 AM5/20/12
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Another piece of shit being turned into compost. Wrap the body in pig skin.
J.D. Baldwin
May 20, 2012, 1:07:02 PM5/20/12
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In the previous article, Bermuda999 <bermu...@aol.com> wrote:
> He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
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Sanford Manley
May 20, 2012, 1:08:27 PM5/20/12
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On 5/20/2012 1:07 PM, J.D. Baldwin wrote:
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> In the previous article, Bermuda999<bermu...@aol.com> wrote:
>> He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
>
> My ass.
I bet if he had been imprisoned in your ass, he would
>
> In the previous article, Bermuda999<bermu...@aol.com> wrote:
>> He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
>
> My ass.
have never been released ;)
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danny burstein
May 20, 2012, 1:23:46 PM5/20/12
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In <jpb8bm$98q$1...@reader1.panix.com> INVALID...@example.com.invalid (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
>In the previous article, Bermuda999 <bermu...@aol.com> wrote:
>> He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
>My ass.
You're saying it was a lube job?
>In the previous article, Bermuda999 <bermu...@aol.com> wrote:
>> He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
>My ass.
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Flybd5
May 20, 2012, 1:31:24 PM5/20/12
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On 05/20/2012 10:08 AM, Sanford Manley wrote:
> On 5/20/2012 1:07 PM, J.D. Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> In the previous article, Bermuda999<bermu...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate
>>> grounds.
>>
>> My ass.
>
> I bet if he had been imprisoned in your ass, he would
> have never been released ;)
>
All those Muslims are into each others' asses all the time. That's why
> On 5/20/2012 1:07 PM, J.D. Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> In the previous article, Bermuda999<bermu...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate
>>> grounds.
>>
>> My ass.
>
> I bet if he had been imprisoned in your ass, he would
> have never been released ;)
>
they all hate women.
Scott Brady
May 20, 2012, 2:01:34 PM5/20/12
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On May 20, 12:08 pm, Sanford Manley <ansa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/20/2012 1:07 PM, J.D. Baldwin wrote:
> > In the previous article, Bermuda999<bermuda...@aol.com> wrote:
> On 5/20/2012 1:07 PM, J.D. Baldwin wrote:
> >> He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
>
> > My ass.
The only thing that kept him alive was his desire to survive until his
>
> > My ass.
60th birthday. The bastard made it by seven weeks.
Kathi
May 20, 2012, 2:33:40 PM5/20/12
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Poolside at COP, not the aodp though.
On this one though, I'll pull a Denise fist pump.
On this one though, I'll pull a Denise fist pump.
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