dead Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi

[Finch 0]

Looks like anyone with Al-Megrahi in their deadpool may be getting a early Christmas present after all, especially those of us with him as our joker...

 

Sky News reporting that Al-Megrahi is in a coma and is expected to last 'days' at the most. "On The Verge Of Death"

 

EDIT: Even the Beeb are reporting it as breaking news, so it must be true.

 

beat me to it Vinegar

 

Guardian report

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

If you could just hold out for four more days please Abdel, or better still sixteen. But not 23.

[Rotten Ali 600]

Liz Edwards only took a day to die after one bit of grim news - I find it hard to believe we (with him on the team) could be so lucky again in such a short time.

[RIP Wee Jum 1,559]

Looks like anyone with Al-Megrahi in their deadpool may be getting a early Christmas present after all, especially those of us with him as our joker...

 

Sky News reporting that Al-Megrahi is in a coma and is expected to last 'days' at the most. "On The Verge Of Death"

 

EDIT: Even the Beeb are reporting it as breaking news, so it must be true.

 

Hope he is suffering really bad

 

HORRIBLE MAN

 

I for one will be cheering and partying at him getting to f**k

[Windsor 2,233]

It is perhaps not that surprising. His family said last week that they would be suing the Scottish Prison Service for mistreatment and for not providing adequate medical care (which could have spotted his cancer at an earlier stage).

 

Ungrateful bastards! Had we not let his cancer grow to the extent that it did, he would still be in prison today!

[Windsor 2,233]

Looks like anyone with Al-Megrahi in their deadpool may be getting a early Christmas present after all, especially those of us with him as our joker...

 

Sky News reporting that Al-Megrahi is in a coma and is expected to last 'days' at the most. "On The Verge Of Death"

 

EDIT: Even the Beeb are reporting it as breaking news, so it must be true.

 

beat me to it Vinegar

 

Guardian report

 

Hang fire.

[Vinegar Tits 606]

Looks like anyone with Al-Megrahi in their deadpool may be getting a early Christmas present after all, especially those of us with him as our joker...

 

Sky News reporting that Al-Megrahi is in a coma and is expected to last 'days' at the most. "On The Verge Of Death"

 

EDIT: Even the Beeb are reporting it as breaking news, so it must be true.

 

beat me to it Vinegar

 

Guardian report

 

Hang fire.

Damn you, my former employers! For once can you *not* report what is probably the truth?

[Tuber Mirum 125]

Am I alone in my strong suspicion that Megrahi is, if not actually entirely innocent, very likely not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing?

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

Am I alone in my strong suspicion that Megrahi is, if not actually entirely innocent, very likely not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing?

 

 

No, you're not alone.

[Rotten Ali 600]

Am I alone in my strong suspicion that Megrahi is, if not actually entirely innocent, very likely not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing?

 

 

No, you're not alone.

 

Ditto - said it before - "Lockerbie" PanAm bombing, 21st Dec 1988, looks more like an Iranian plot to hit back at the USA because the US Navy shot down a civilian Iranian plane. Nothing to do with Libya.

 

cut and paste...

 

Iran Air Flight 655, also known as IR655, was a civilian airliner shot down by US missiles on 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward the end of the Iran–Iraq War.

 

The aircraft, an Airbus A300B2 operated by Iran Air as IR655, was flying from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Dubai, UAE, when it was destroyed by the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children, ranking it seventh among the deadliest airliner fatalities. It was the highest death toll of any aviation incident in the Indian Ocean and the highest death toll of any incident involving an Airbus A300 anywhere in the world. Vincennes was traversing the Strait of Hormuz, inside Iranian territorial waters, and at the time of the attack IR655 was within Iranian airspace.

 

According to the US government, the crew mistakenly identified the Iranian Airbus A300 as an attacking F-14 Tomcat fighter. The Iranian government maintained that the Vincennes knowingly shot down the civilian aircraft. The event generated a great deal of controversy and criticism of the US. Some analysts have blamed US military commanders and the captain of the Vincennes for reckless and aggressive behavior in a tense and dangerous environment.

 

In 1996, the United States and Iran reached "an agreement in full and final settlement of all disputes, differences, claims, counterclaims" relating to the incident at the International Court of Justice. As part of the settlement, the United States agreed to pay US$61.8 million, an average of $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims. However, the United States has never admitted responsibility, nor apologized to Iran.

 

As of summer 2009 Iran Air was still using flight number IR655 on the Tehran–Dubai route.

 

Further...

 

The incident overshadowed U.S.-Iran relations for many years. Following the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 six months later, the British and American governments initially blamed the PFLP-GC, a Palestinian militant group backed by Syria, with assumptions of assistance from Iran in retaliation for Iran Air Flight 655.

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

Am I alone in my strong suspicion that Megrahi is, if not actually entirely innocent, very likely not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing?

 

No, you're not. I have serious doubts as well. Too much circumstantial evidence in my view.

[Tuber Mirum 125]

Am I alone in my strong suspicion that Megrahi is, if not actually entirely innocent, very likely not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing?

 

No, you're not. I have serious doubts as well. Too much circumstantial evidence in my view.

I only ask because the general consensus seems to be that he is an evil bastard who deserves to die, so I was wondering if he'd actually done anything to deserve such opprobrium, apart from just being a Lybian obviously.

[Vinegar Tits 606]

I only ask because the general consensus seems to be that he is an evil bastard who deserves to die, so I was wondering if he'd actually done anything to deserve such opprobrium, apart from just being a Lybian obviously.

Guilty or not, that he's complicit in the murkiness of what actually happened is enough for me to not care about his failing health.

[Durham Red 0]

Sod the whys and the wherefors. If he croaks within 21 days I'm on for a free slap-up meal at Gaucho's in Sloane Square!

 

Saying that, 'dead within a couple of months' prompted a Methusulan comeback that lasted for over a year, so 'dead within days' probably means he'll linger on for a month or two.

[Madame Defarge 21]

Am I alone in my strong suspicion that Megrahi is, if not actually entirely innocent, very likely not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing?

 

 

No, you're not alone.

 

No, it sounds fishy to me too. I suspect he may have been a fall guy, and one of the reasons why the compassionate release was achieved so quickly was because some people in high places in several governments knew he wasn't the one. It's likely we'll never find out, though.

[The Miser 18]

Am I alone in my strong suspicion that Megrahi is, if not actually entirely innocent, very likely not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing?

 

 

No, you're not alone.

 

No, it sounds fishy to me too. I suspect he may have been a fall guy, and one of the reasons why the compassionate release was achieved so quickly was because some people in high places in several governments knew he wasn't the one. It's likely we'll never find out, though.

 

 

I'm sure that he is a peach of a guy. I wish he was my father and raised me to be as wonderful a guy as he turned out to be. He should be given the Nobel Prize. Either way...please die in the next 20 days...I'm sure he will be assumed body and soul into the afterlife.

[Spade_Cooley 9,525]

So who'll get more selections on the 2010 DDP then? This cheeky chappy or Maggie?

[Rotten Ali 600]

Has to be Maggie, getting the "most picked" position until her demise. And our deathlist admin should have her listed at position number 10 every year from now on, until she dies.

As for al-Megrahi, he will still be popular, but I don't think quite as many will pick him as did pick him last year.

(al-Megrahi down 5%, where-as Thatcher will put on about 20%)

[The Miser 18]

Has to be Maggie, getting the "most picked" position until her demise. And our deathlist admin should have her listed at position number 10 every year from now on, until she dies.

As for al-Megrahi, he will still be popular, but I don't think quite as many will pick him as did pick him last year.

(al-Megrahi down 5%, where-as Thatcher will put on about 20%)

 

I think Aretha Franklin will be quite popular as well.

[fourty-two 1]

bye bye bomb bomb

[JR976evil 906]

there are a LOT of holes in the whole thing, for one it was 2 WHOLE YEARS before the British Government launched an official investigation. I do not believe Maggie Thatcher would hold off on such a thing unless she was pressured to do so, most likely by the US, you imagine she would be demanding answers straight away. I read that there a Syrian intelligence officer was considered a prime suspect, he had experience in the kind of method of bombing that it was attributed to, but wasn't pursued cause the Yanks were trying to get Syria 'on side' at the time. There is definitely enough compelling evidence for the investigation to be re-opened, a number of the victim's relatives are sceptical of Al-megrahi's guilt, it should be noted. However both the UK and US Governments will likely do everything they can to stop this from ever happening, probably a whole load of embarrassing skeletons waiting to be unearthed...

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Daily Telegraph scoop suggesting all kinds of shady dealings behind the release, non of it to do with immenent death.

[JR976evil 906]

Daily Telegraph scoop suggesting all kinds of shady dealings behind the release, non of it to do with immenent death.

 

I reckon the whole affair has been virtually nothing but shady dealings from day one!

[Spade_Cooley 9,525]

Can't keep this guy out of the news. Nothing to do with his health, admittedly.

[sympathyforthedevil 11]

So this guy is still alive some 18 months after his release? Hmmm...