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A Special Place In Hell
Prison officials in the United Kingdom are considering whether to release 57-year-old former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who is serving a 27-year minimum term for his role in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Mr. Megrahi is suffering from terminal prostate cancer, and the early release is being sought on humanitarian grounds. Mercy for this man would be a mistake.
On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was traveling from London to New York when it exploded at 7:02 p.m. local time. The Boeing 747 disintegrated in a fireball and plummeted 31,000 feet to Earth. The debris dug a 50-foot crater in the town of Lockerbie. All 259 people on the plane were killed, along with 11 more innocents on the ground who were crushed under the wreckage. The source of the explosion was a bomb in a suitcase in the forward cargo hold. Subsequent investigation tied Mr. Megrahi to the suitcase containing the bomb, and on Jan. 31, 2001, he was convicted of 270 counts of murder. It was one of the largest convictions for terrorism in history, if not the largest.
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He will reside in the official “Hitler, serial killers, Timothy McVeigh and soon to be shared by Osama Bin Laden” section of hell.
Oh yeah. I’ve no doubt of that.