Lockerbie bomber release defended by minister.Summary: The Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill Kenny MacAskill (born 28 April 1958) is an Scottish National Party politician, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh since 2007. , has answered critics over the medical advice he received about the Lockerbie Lockerbie (lŏk`ərbē), village (1991 pop. 3,892), Scotland, site of a 1988 airplane crash. On Dec. 21, 1988, a New York–bound Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight as a result of a terrorist bomb and crashed in and around Lockerbie. bomber bomberMilitary aircraft designed to drop bombs on surface targets. Aerial bombardment can be traced to the Italo-Turkish War (1911), in which an Italian pilot dropped grenades on two Turkish targets. . The Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, has answered critics over the medical advice he received about the Lockerbie bomber before allowing him to be freed from prison on compassionate com·pas·sion·ate adj. 1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane. 2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: grounds. MacAskill also made it clear that trade deals with Libya had no bearing on his decision. It follows disclosures that UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw decided two years ago it was in the country's "overwhelming interest" not to exclude Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from a prisoner transfer agreement. Channel 4 News has shown exclusive footage they recorded of al-Megrahi in his hospital bed. Al-Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. , was allowed to leave Greenock Prison to go home to Libya to die, having served just eight years of a minimum 27-year sentence after being convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am plane. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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