Lockerbie (Scotland)

Scottish Compassion

On August 20, 2009, Scotland released Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on “compassionate” grounds because he had only three months to live. Those three months are up, but per Wikipedia he’s not dead yet. I say,...

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U.S. senator calls on Britain to demand 'immediate return' of Lockerbie bomber Al Megrahi

Gordon Brown was told last night that he must seek the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to Britain. A senior senator in the United States has written to the Prime Minister to protest that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al...

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Approval expected for data storage centre plan

Published Date: 21 November 2009 AN AMBITIOUS plan to build the world's biggest data storage centre and clean-energy village near Lockerbie is expected to be approved next week, paving the way for work to start next year. The...

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Zimbabwe: Uncle Sam - Friend or Foe?

opinion WORLD opinion remains sharply divided over the United States of America's role in global politics given its partiality, hypocrisy and double-standards in its dealings with other nations. And the horrendous crisis...

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Row over Megrahi release reignited

Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, American families of victims question medical advice Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the families of American victims of the Lockerbie bombing...

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Libya: Lockerbie bomber asked back to jail

The Libyan man, Abdul Al-Megrahi, behind the 1988 bombing of a United States plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, who was released because he had less than three months to die, is still very much alive at the end of his third month...

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Scots outraged over bomber's release

Do not believe that Scotland was united behind Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's decision to grant "compassionate" release to the terminally ill convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi in August. When...

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US treatment of kingpins

History suggests that there is nothing wrong with the Jamaican Government being careful with its decision regarding the United States' (US), request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.While extradition requests...

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SU remembers Pan Am Flight 103 victims

Thirty-five roses in honor of 35 lives cut short. Syracuse University held its annual Rose Laying Ceremony Friday for the victims of Pan Am Flight 103. They died when a bomb went off in their plane over Lockerbie, Scotland...

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Pan Am flight 103 victims remembered

Many of the Syracuse University students who died when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland were involved in music and the arts. The 35 students from were returning from a semester studying abroad. Wednesday...

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