Well following in his father’s illustrious path, Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi has taken the pen to produce an op-ed for the New York Times, so he could, of course, argue that Megrahi is innocent. Mr. Megrahi was released for the right reasons. The Scottis…

I’m betting Megrahi outlives their current administration.

Ten bucks says you are wrong, there will be no political fallout from this travesty.

For a guy who only had “weeks” or “months” left to live as of last -April- he seemed pretty healthy. As someone else pointed out that, while he carried a cane it didn’t look like he actually needed one.

A jail cell and a trial if it’s the SOB’s lucky day, or… if not… something else.

The more and more I hear MacAskill’s statements and the number of times he says “Scottish” (as if that matters), the less this looks like compassionate release for its own sake, let alone policy carried out for national interests.

Bermuda’s Premier did something similar, ostensibly on humanitarian grounds, for four unpapered, unexamined Uighurs from Gitmo, without consulting the Queen’s local representative – illegal by convention and statute. With any luck this (among other things) will prompt a temporary imposition of direct rule by London as it did in the Turks and Caicos.

Did Megrahi only have weeks to live?
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When al-Megrahi, the terrorist convicted in the bombing of Pan Am 103, was released to Libya I assumed that the one piece of information that had been fully checked out was the medical status of the prisoner. After all, why……

Perhaps we won’t know how long Megrahi has to live until he actually dies, but I suspect we have a better idea of how long the Scottish government will survive. I’m betting Megrahi outlives their current administration.

The question is, will Megrahi make a triumphant return to the Islamic Republic of Scotland?

Did Megrahi only have weeks to live?

Something both he and the rest of the world will be wondering 10 years from now.

They’ll parade one of those cheap pine caskets through a throng of wailing burkha-clad women. So what. Doesn’t mean he’s dead.

I think the whole thing is a sham.

Only one doctor was willing to make that prognosis, who apparently had no expertise in either prostates or oncology

Dr. Obama, I presume.

Buy Danish on August 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM

Well then, he’s lucky his tonsils weren’t ripped out and his foot cut off before he was put on the plane.

Too bad the families of the victims didn’t have the option of sending Dr. Obama on the plane also, as attending physician.

The whole press conference announcement & everything since sounded fishy to me. But, I guess BO should have asked permission before sending some GITMO graduates to Bermuda too.

Only one doctor was willing to make that prognosis, who apparently had no expertise in either prostates or oncology

Dr. Obama, I presume.

scalleywag: And what is this crap I hear about Moammar Goddafi coming to New Jersey?

Senator Lautenberg should contact the Englewood mayor and use “Kelo” eminent domain authority to transfer Kaddafi’s property to the Victims of Pan Am 103 memorial committee.

Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. The case arose from the condemnation by New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property so that it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The Court held in a 5–4 decision that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible “public use” under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

That should tie up Kaddafi’s plans for a New Jersey tent party.

Now in a fit of delusional sentimentalism (or a drunken stupor on cheap linoleum– or both) one stinkin’ drunk and disorderly soccer yob ‘Justice’ Minister tosses centuries of Scottish principle down the filthiest toilet in Edinburgh.

/disgraceful