Now comes word that the Lockerbie bomber -- Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing, which killed 270 people -- who has been comfortably ensconced in one of Tripoli's richest neighborhoods, isn't going to be extradited anywhere. "Libyan rebels won't deport Lockerbie bomber", MSNBC, 28 August 2011:
TRIPOLI, Libya— The Libyan rebels' interim government says it will not deport the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, who is reportedly near death.
The rebel Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told journalists in Tripoli Sunday that no Libyan citizen would be deported, even Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in a Scottish court and imprisoned for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people.
The Scottish government released al-Megrahi in 2009, believing he would soon die of cancer. He was greeted as a hero in his native Libya and met with then-leader Moammar Gadhafi.
CNN reported Sunday that al-Megrahi is comatose and near death, under the care of his family at a villa in Tripoli.
"We just give him oxygen. Nobody gives us any advice," his son, Khaled Elmegarhi, told CNN.
It's likely that he'll take the secrets of the Pam Am bombing to his grave, according to CNN.
Neighbors of al-Megrahi described him as a wealthy recluse, constantly surrounded by security guards.
After his release, he was received with a hero's welcome on his return to Tripoli, and the televised images of cheering crowds angered many relatives of the 270 people killed in the attack, 189 of whom were Americans.
The Obama administration harshly criticized Scotland's decision to release Megrahi and many U.S. politicians and victims' families have pressed for his extradition to the United States.
One of Megrahi's neighbors said he had been whisked away by security guards last week when Tripoli fell to rebels battling forces loyal to Gadhafi, who like Megrahi, has gone into hiding. Libya's new government is likely to come under pressure to find Megrahi and hand him over.
"The day Tripoli fell, four security men, his private security, took him, his wife and his sons and left. They left in a Mercedes," said Ahmed Mlaaty, 20, a student and one of Megrahi's neighbours, standing outside his handsome villa.
As a condition of his release, Megrahi had been obliged to check in regularly with Scottish authorities, who said last week they had lost contact with him in the "dust of battle."
Lost contact? I'm sure the Scottish authorities didn't see that coming.
Another neighbor said Megrahi caused no one any harm, and said his complicity in the bombing had not been proved.
"Everyone associates him with Lockerbie, but I'm not sure he was involved," said Noora Abdul Hadi, 27, a doctor.
Attiya al-Usta, 77, said he had seen Megrahi just before the February uprising against Gadhafi's 42-year-rule.
"When he came back from Europe he looked ill. But recently he looked fit and neat. I saw him just before the revolution. He didn't look ill at all. He was sitting in a chair on his balcony. He looked 100 percent."
As the founder of Islam taught his followers, warfare is deceit.
I am not in the least surprised.I am beginning to think the Ezekiel 38 prophecy of the Gog War could be coming true,where:
1.Several Muslim nations go to war against Israel(like Turkey,Iran,Sudan,etc)
2.Their armies are miraculously destroyed,not by the Israelis,but by God.
3.So when the billion Muslims see that they would lose faith and it would be the collapse of Islam
Guys,check out this abnsat.com program called "Women in Islam"
It has Mary Jo Sharp,of confidentchristianity.com plus another lady.
http://youtu.be/9MfW7fQ_TT4
Talk about a non-story for anybody who reads Jihad Watch...
The typical politician and mainstream media are no doubt completely amazed. Just wait until that sharia compliant constitution is ratified. I guess then they'll go back to the insane circular argument about whether Islam and democracy are compatible.
PLUS
For historical interest there is the story of Razia,the only Woman Sultan in Indian History:
http://www.antisharia.com/2011/08/28/razia-al-dinthe-only-female-sultan-of-indiaand-one-of-the-two-women-sultanas-in-muslim-history/
PLUS READ
Check out the new website by Nabeel Qureshi,ex-Ahmadiya Muslim,now Christian,friend of David Wood(of answeringmuslims.com)
http://creed26.com/
PLUS
1.answeringmuslims.com
2.answering-islam.org
3.thereligionofconquest.com
4.See the videos (click on "online videos") of abnsat.com(like "Jihad Exposed","Debate","Jesus or Muhammad").
The videos are also on youtube,write "abnsat".
Plus a new blog about the Persecution of Christians(mostly by Muslims)
http://www.persecutedfourchrist.blogspot.com
5.Also PYEM Ministry:
http://pyemministry.blogspot.com/
(very critical of Islam)
6.The blog "Debunking Quranic Science":
http://debunkingquranicscience.blogspot.com/
7.WIKISLAM(with 1,400 articles):
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Main_Page
8."Confident Christianity by Mary Jo Sharp":
Home Page:
http://confidentchristianity.com/
Her blog:
http://www.confidentchristianity.blogspot.com/
Also read:
antisharia.com and:
avraidire.com:
http://www.avraidire.com/
(in French and English),you can translate the French by copying and pasting with Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/#
Like for example,in NIGERIA it is becoming hell on earth because of fanatical Muslims,in the past 2 weeks 24 Christians have been killed by Muslim fanatics
http://persecutedfourchrist.blogspot.com/2011/08/twenty-four-killed-in-series-of-attacks_28.html
Shocker: Libya's new government won't deport Lockerbie bomber
Abraham Lincoln wrote:
Talk about a non-story for anybody who reads Jihad Watch...
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Well, I have to agree with "Abraham Lincoln" here.
From the article:
CNN reported Sunday that al-Megrahi is comatose and near death, under the care of his family at a villa in Tripoli.
"We just give him oxygen. Nobody gives us any advice," his son, Khaled Elmegarhi, told CNN.
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Attiya al-Usta, 77, said he had seen Megrahi just before the February uprising against Gadhafi's 42-year-rule.
"When he came back from Europe he looked ill. But recently he looked fit and neat. I saw him just before the revolution. He didn't look ill at all. He was sitting in a chair on his balcony. He looked 100 percent."
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Well, *these* are rather different accounts. Seems more likely that the Lockerbie bomber is thriving back in Dar-al-Jihad...
OT
Baghdad mosque attack kills MP, 27 others
BAGHDAD: An elderly bandage-swathed suicide bomber blew himself up in Baghdad’s biggest Sunni mosque, killing an MP and at least 27 others in an attack that was blamed on al Qaeda on Monday.
The blast was part of nationwide violence that left 35 dead on Sunday, just days before the conclusion of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the Eid al-Fitr festival that marks its end, and was apparently carried out by a man who detonated his explosives in a crowd of worshippers.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/29/baghdad-mosque-attack-kills-mp-27-others.html
AND
The non-Muslims of Pakistan
http://tribune.com.pk/story/241152/the-non-muslims-of-pakistan/
I'm sure Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi will pop up again next year at the London Olympics; winning the 100 metres, the Marathon and several other stamina draining events.
Dying from cancer, eh? Don't make me laugh!
I just now watched a vintage film with my husband which he had always wanted to see. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) was showing "Nothing Sacred" as part of a day featuring movies with Carole Lombard.
She plays a young woman from a dull small town diagnosed with a fatal illness—accidentally *misdiagnosed*, as it turns out. She finds out that she is going to live after all, just as a rather dashing newspaperman from exiting New York City offers her a free trip to the metropolis while he covers her 'tragic' story.
Will she come clean? Well, it's a screwball comedy, so wackiness—and maybe a lesson or two along the way—ensue.
No laughs with the Lockerbie Bomber story, though—and no worries about a troubled conscience at his end, either..
Yet another case of comparing Islam with the West, and finding the "religion of peace" is rather uglier...
It appears Gaddafi's daughter for whom he claimed compo from Condollleeeezzza Rice for Reagan's bombing raid is also alive and well, torturing her maids somewhere....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/martin-evans/8725024/Libya-Hana-Gaddafi-alive-and-well.html
If we know where this fugitive from Justice is, Seal team 6 is still alive and kicking. Let's go in and get this mass murderer. I don't care if he is near death and on O2, drag his butt out of bed, put him on a plane and fly him to Justice. He should not be allowed to die peacefully, but rather he should die in a prison cell. He will have all eternity to think about his crimes. Remember, he has already been tried and convicted, he is not an innocent man.
Mr Megrahi's crime is quite a lot like OBM's, using a civilian airliner to kill as many Americans and others as he could manage.
We've tried to observe the legal niceties with the result being his release by the British government on bogus medical grounds, which happened just prior to British oil interests being awarded a major Libyan contract. But of course the two events are completely unrelated and the timing is only coincidental. We have the word of both the British and former Libyan governments on that,so it must be so.
Time Mr Megrahi was either served a SEAL team cocktail (two shots and a splash) or received a all expense paid Carribean holiday for some face down surfing if anyone thinks he has something interesting to relate.
And then we can watch the government of the UK try to take the moral high ground.
Its a sick sad world.
Sure, they won't allow al-Megrahi to be extradited. However, I strongly suspect that before long, many of those who welcomed al-Megrahi home and cheered the Scottish courts by waving the Cross of St. Andrews probably will be arrested--for open display of a Christian symbol.
My guess is that the new Libyan regime will be the same sort of disgusting, Islamicist dictatorship as the one it deposed; only we haven't seen who the new grand imperial wizard or whatever is. Unfortunately, the new dictator probably won't look like Harpo or Chico Marx's natural son (or great-grandson, perhaps?).
BTW, since some have raised the possibility that Hana Qaddafi, the adopted daughter of the dictator who was supposedly killed in the 1986 air raid, may actually be alive and a student somewhere, I say just let her live her life.
""We just give him oxygen. Nobody gives us any advice," his son, Khaled Elmegarhi, told CNN."
He hasn't called any of the victims families..
Did you really think that there are good Muslims? They are all sub-human Neanderthal apes.
There are good people within the Ummah.
They are the ones who live inconsistently with the ideology they are supposed to espouse.
Given the chance, some of them apostasise: vide Patrick Sookhdeo, Daniel Shayesteh, Mark Gabriel, Wafa Sultan, Nonie Darwish, Ibn Warraq, Ali Sina, Hannah Shah, Bilquis Sheikh, and Magdi Cristiano Allam. And there are others, less well known - after all, the indigenous Berber, Turkish-speaking church and Farsi-speaking churches, in Algeria, Turkey and Iran respectively , number in the thousands and are comprised entirely of apostates from Islam; Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali in the UK is the son of a man who apostasised from Islam to Christianity and, therefore, raised his children as believing Christians (note the surname - upon becoming Christian, Bishop Michael's father, presumably originally surnamed 'Ali', must have added 'Nazir' - that is, 'Nazarene', i.e. ' Christian' - to his name).