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Published Date: 19 October 2008
WELCOME to Scotland on Sunday's online feature, Question of the Week.
Each week we ask the readers of scotlandonsunday.com for their views on a burning issue from the past seven days.

The best responses may be reproduced on the Online Forum page in Sunday's print edition of the newspaper on October 26.

If you wish to appear in Scotland on Sunday, then, along with your response, please leave a first name and surname, as well as your location - eg Tom Smith, Edinburgh. We welcome all comments.

The question this week is...

Should Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi be freed from jail after being diagnosed with 'advanced stage' cancer?



The full article contains 115 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
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  • Last Updated: 23 October 2008 1:13 PM
  • Source: Scotland On Sunday
  • Location: Scotland
  • Related Topics: Lockerbie
 
1

Gordon Lightfoot,

Dunbartonshire 23/10/2008 23:55:08
AbdelbAset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi should have been freed from prison years ago as he is an innocent man. The "establishment" stitched him up and we can now see that they do not even want to give him a fair appeal after having denied him a fair trial.
2

NOYB,

24/10/2008 01:56:18
Shove him out of a plane at 9000 meters above a golf course. It will save the tax payers from his continuing twaddle and allow him to experience the plight of those he murdered.
3

JohnBowes,

Greenock 24/10/2008 02:24:55
Was he in ANY sense guilty. I really do not know. BUT the conviction WAS unsafe and EVERYBODY knows it. Given that, in a decent society like ours, the chap should be freed.

If we want to be like the idiotic Americans we will keep him inside as some sort of security blanket where we deem him guilty even if he is not. Let him go.
4

JohnBowes,

24/10/2008 02:28:59
As for the bombing itself, it happened and those responsible deserve to die and thereafter burn in hell.

I trust when those responsible die they will indeed burn in hell.

BUT on this earth we, I think, need evidence. Does anybody really think that Gaddafi would have gave us somebody who could tell us anything worth hearing?

NOYB, answer that question. Would you cough up the real culprit? Are you an idiot?

5

JohnBowes,

24/10/2008 02:32:24
A final word. Does anybody really think that Gaddafi cares about the western world and thus would spew out the real culprits? WHY did the other guy get found NOT guilty? If the evidence against him was shoite well...

As for gaddafi, he was on the telly being interviewed one night and started scratching his old balls... be honest, who could trust a character like that. Reader be honest, would you?
6

NOYB,

26/10/2008 16:36:36
Mr. Bowels - Do YOU honestly think Gaddafi cared about what Megrahi might say? Particularly at that time when he was blowing things up all over the world? His ego is huge. Plus, I'm sure he knew that Megrahi has a family that would certainly be killed, if he admitted anything.
7

NOYB,

26/10/2008 16:55:48
There is PLENTY of evidence against Megrahi - He was on Malta the day the bomb was placed on the Air Malta flight and interlined to PA103, that same day he was carrying a samsonite suitcase identical to that in which the bomb was placed. He was traveling on a false passport, about which he lied in an interview w/ Pierre Salinger ON CAMERA, saying he was in Libya that day and did not know the name (Abdusamad Ahmed Khalifa) of the person on the passport. The passport IN TRIAL EVIDENCE had this name and Megrahi's photo. Megrahi and Libya were conducting business with the man (Bollier) who made the timer and tested in Libya said timers designed to blow up aircraft. Megrahi rented office space from Bollier and Megrahi and was the one to whom Bollier personally gave the timer. He stored explosives in the office at the Malta airport where he was head of Libyan airline security. Libya admitted responsibility for the acts of their government employees involed in the Pan Am Bombing - Megrahi was a Libyan government employee. HE IS GUILTY and should be shown NO MERCY and remain in prison to die as the murdering stinking piece of trash he is.
8

tommy,

belfast uk 07/11/2008 08:46:07
Better late than never


WHAT___Free him and give him a chance to be a "shahid" - ??????

 

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