"Libyan authorities, keen to secure Megrahi's release, asked several experts to put a three-month estimate on the bomber's life but Professor Sikora was the only one to agree."
And "War is Deceit." "Dying Lockerbie bomber 'could survive for 10 years or more'," by Alastair Jamieson for the Telegraph, July 4 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Professor Karol Sikora, who assessed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi for the Libyan authorities almost a year ago, told The Sunday Times it was "embarrassing" the bomber had outlived his three-month prognosis.
Megrahi, 58, is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of a US Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie, which left 270 dead.
The Scottish government provoked outrage from the United States when it released him from prison in August 2009 on compassionate grounds because he dying of metastatic prostate cancer.
In Scotland, prisoners are eligible for release on compassionate grounds if they have fewer than three months to live.
A report in the Sunday Times said Libyan authorities, keen to secure Megrahi's release, asked several experts to put a three-month estimate on the bomber's life but Professor Sikora was the only one to agree.
Professor Sikora, the dean of medicine at Buckingham University and medical director of CancerPartnersUK in London, was paid for his medical assessment of Megrahi at Greenock prison on July last year.
He told the newspaper: "There was always a chance he could live for 10 years, 20 years ... But it's very unusual.
"It was clear that three months was what they were aiming for. Three months was the critical point.
"On the balance of probabilities, I felt I could sort of justify [that]."
He denied he came any under pressure, but admitted: "It is embarrassing that he's gone on for so long."
"There was a 50 per cent chance that he would die in three months, but there was also a 50 per cent chance that he would live longer."
Saif Gaddafi, eldest son of leader Colonel Gaddafi, said in May that Megrahi was still "very sick" with cancer.
The Scottish government insists Kenny MacAskill, the justice minister who took the final decision to release Megrahi, based his ruling on a medical report by Dr Andrew Fraser, director of health and care at the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).
A spokesman said Professor Sikora's advice to Libya "had no part to play in considerations on the Megrahi case".
Jack Straw, then Justice Secretary at Westminster, admitted last year that trade and oil agreements were an essential part of the British government's decision to include Megrahi in a previously planned prisoner transfer agreement with Libya.
He wrote to his Scottish counterpart to say it was "in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom" to make Megrahi eligible for return to Libya...
The Scots were IDIOTS for letting him go in the first place!!
What is the point of a life sentence if one is let go for "compassionate reasons?" Absolutely nothing...
Hopefully, he suffers daily in torturous pain. I have no compassion for an incompassionate murderous person like this cretin!!
Just possibly the "malignancy" was the 3 months left rotting his brain from the siras, hadiths and the Koran after a lifetime of demyelinating his neurons....the life expectancy of a human brain being infected with Islam hasn't really been addressed from an epidemiology point of view IMHO because so many are killed by the same Islam-virus infected co-travelers..s/o..I feel so bad for the Lockerbie families
Massive incompetence aside, this travesty of justice should stand as the paramount example of how ill-conceived compassion creates new injustices and solves nothing.
this is actually amazing.
no one is noticing that Bomber al-Megrahi is being kept alive by a power that is not Allah, which has shown no record of healing power, let alone, bringing the dead to life.
and, every day he lives must be agony to him, knowing that: what he did could be ignored by his capricious Allah. imagine getting no credit for what he did.
he is still so very sick ... uh huh
a life sentence should end when the life of the convicted ends....
Has Gilad Shalit been released...is he still alive?....has he ever been convicted in a proper court?...
We all know exactly what took place there. No surprise there from Scotland. My guess is Ireland's no better. They sold their sole already, years ago, what's a few drops more. The people of the US are the only significant force fighting back, there is no other. I keep that in mind every day.
The UK and France will either prove or disprove if they are beyond salvaging. If beyond a certain point, a society is in fact, lost.
Let's not get there.
Jack Straw, then Justice Secretary at Westminster, admitted last year that trade and oil agreements were an essential part of the British government's decision to include Megrahi in a previously planned prisoner transfer agreement with Libya.
He wrote to his Scottish counterpart to say it was "in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom" to make Megrahi eligible for return to Libya...
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Yes—what could possibly be more in the "overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom"—not to mention justice and basic human decency—than releasing a vicious Jihad mass killer in exchange for an *oil deal*? sarc/off
The Scottish government provoked outrage from the United States when it released him from prison in August 2009 on compassionate grounds because he dying of metastatic prostate cancer.
In the real world, as opposed to the Fictive Reality World in which we now live, American and UK intelligence would send in a special ops team to pluck this Moslem hero away from Moammar to be returned to his Scottish prison cell.
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And then they'd show compassion for the mass murderer by giving him full rights of legal appeal before publicly hanging him from a tree.
Fooljah! Fooljah!
World, meet Taqiyya. And remember this next time: Whatever Muslim "honor" might mean, it has no connection to any concept of "word of honor."
As this deal was being struck everyone knew this waste of skin would far outlive his supposed 3 month term. There's no surprise here, only disgust.
This is precisely why Muslims believe the West is decadent. And they are correct, for the most part.
This perversity will bite Britain in its proverbially collective ass somewhere down the line, mark my words.
It makes one want to scream.
My only wish if Megrahi does survive another 10 years, or even 5, is that he outlives the conniving politicians that released him.
Who says the JOCKS are not ignorant, self serving fools now. They were oh so pleased to rave about THEIR compassion and fairness when THEY in an act of sublime stupidity first freed him. Then when the world called them fools instead of praising them as they thought it would they tried to pass the buck to that OTHER Jock fool Gordon McBroon in London.
But as they say 'the truth will out' and the JOCKS are exposed for the Islamophilic, self serving, naive, conniving, gullible fools that they undoubtably are.
As a Scot, I am ashamed of my country - or rather, the self-serving politicians who make decisions in favour of one of the murderers responsible for the jihad attack on the PanAm jumbo jet.
However, like an alcoholic who denies his illness, the West pretends that its dependency on oil is a separate issue from Islam's jihad against Dar al-Harb. If we could develop the technology to extract the oil from 'tar sands' in the US, there are reserves so huge that we wouldn't need Islam's oil. Then, perhaps, a more realistic political stance along with suddenly poorer Islamic oil states would help to stem the tide of this collective insanity, Islam.
"extract the oil from 'tar sands' in the US"..They're up a little farther North, Buraq, near Fort MacMurray,Alberta,Canada,eh.
but yeah,as if we didn't expect the demon to live..Can the civilised world sue these "doctors" for malpractice? Didn't think so.
Like we hadn't seen this coming...
This sure merits the reinstatement of the death penalty in the UK, even if just until Kenny MacAskill is found guilty of treason and sentenced to the gallows.
Since he's only a dhimmi, and not a mahoundian, we'd eventually see justice be done. Unless, of course, between now and his sentencing he converted to mahoundianism. That way, since the British InJustice System never finds mahoundians really guilty of anything and is a keen guardian of their human rights and feelings (going to hell with a can of gasoline to punish those who dare hurt them), MacAskill would sure get off the hook scot-free (pun intended.)
Yes, poor fellow...hailed as a hero, living with the memory of killing all those passengers, must be a real adrenalin rush to him.
Perhaps it's the camel milk/piss mixture that is keeping him alive.
Scotland should be changing it's national anthem from "Scotland the Brave" to "Scotland the Grave".
Scots are all a bunch of whimpy-assed Lib-tard Freemasons who only care about what's in the bottom of their bulging pockets". I oughta know...I come from a long line of Scots dating back to Robert, the 17th Earl of Bruce.
The men we appoint to lead us have no honour, no pride and no backbone.
The fact that we accept that, plus the fact that we believe that if we vote for fools, cowards and thieves they will create heaven on earth - or at the very least buy us a free lunch means that we aregetting what we deserve..
The headline here brought to mind Rodney Dangerfield's joke about paying his doctor's bill.
However, there is nothing funny in any of this.
Just more salt in the wounds of many families, & a black eye on the face of the earth...