Lockerbie Bomber Megrahi Dies in Libya (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 20, 2012, 9:13 AM
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, is dead.
He was 60.
Megrahi was released from jail by Scottish officials on “compassionate grounds” in 2009.
Reuters reported:
The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday.
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, released from a Scottish prison in 2009 and returned to Libya because he was suffering from terminal cancer, had been in and out of hospital for weeks and was taken for an emergency blood transfusion in April.
Megrahi’s health had deteriorated quickly overnight, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters. “He was surrounded by his family and died in his house,” he said. He was 60.
“He was too sick to utter anything on his deathbed,” Abdulhakim said. “We want people to know he was innocent.”
Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of bombing Pan Am flight 103 as it flew to New York from London on December 21, 1988. All 259 people aboard the aircraft were killed and 11 people in the Scottish town of Lockerbie died from falling wreckage.
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Army Dad commented:
ABC news calls him “man convicted in the Lockerbie bombing”, not Lockerbie bomber. Gutless!
Adam commented:
Enjoy hell.
juandos commented:
May Megrahi spend eternity in a vat of boiling lard…
bear commented:
Good riddance, megrahi, and take your “peaceful” cult with you!
well now commented:
I hope no one is expecting me to feel bad about this guy dying. I might go have a ham sandwich to celebrate
Patty commented:
He was more fortunate then those who he killed.
MJ commented:
Good riddance
creeper commented:
I hope he died screaming in agony.
paul52 commented:
May his virgins all look like Nancy Pelosi.
bg commented:
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Thank God..
long die the Islamists!!
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Hobbitually conservative commented:
In the name of allah and by sharia, all murderers and mass murderers are innocent, no surprise there.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
At home, in his own bed, surrounded by family. His crime was terrible but his release, aided and abetted by the feckless Obama, might be the greater crime. The bomber took their lives, but Obama and the amoral Leftists in Europe spat on their graves.
Stan commented:
Of course his family thinks he was “innocent”–in their minds, the “guilty” were the people on the plane that he killed while doing Allah’s work.
John03 commented:
Has Obama taken credit yet?
donh commented:
VERY SUSPICIOUS…He ” dies ” the same day blind man Chen is supposed to be arriving from China. I posted YESTERDAY that I bet a man passed off as Chen departs from the airplane under some protective sheet blocking him from view of the camera…and that under the sheet will be Pan Am bomber Al Magrahi who will be givin a luxury tax payer funded condo in Los Angeles….that Chen is really locked up in some prison in CheFu.
greenfairie commented:
Should’ve been rotting in prison, or executed a long time ago.
Really? commented:
Too bad his victims on Pan Am and in Lockerbie did not have the luxury of a long good by to THEIR families like this POS was allowed. And before we blame on Obama on this one: It was the out of control British Justice system that allowed his release.
Tim in Cali commented:
How long before Obozo calls to apologize, to the Libyan people ?
Will Obozo be attending his funeral ?
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