Thanks to the miracle that is Libya’s healthcare system, the Lockerbie bomber is alive and well.
al-Megrahi in the hospital: A staged photo op if there ever was one
Remember the tragic tale of the Lockerbie bomber? The poor chap was diagnosed with advanced terminal prostate cancer, freed from prison in Scotland and allowed to return to live out his few, final days in Libya. We were told in the gravest of tones that he had but three months to live.
But thanks to the miracle that is Libya’s healthcare system, the Lockerbie bomber is alive and well.
The UK Daily Mail has the inspirational story:
… six months later, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi is still living–and doing it in the lap of luxury.
Yesterday, his elderly father even held out the prospect of him beating the prostate cancer that doctors said would kill him by last Christmas…
Megrahi, 57, no longer receives hospital treatment after ending a course of chemotherapy.
Last night, the British cancer specialist who gave the three-month prognosis was forced to defend his prediction.
He insisted that Megrahi remained gravely ill and was not expected to live much longer.
Call us cynical, but we thnk we’ll be reading this same story a year from now. And we still won’t know the real reason this murderer was released to live in Libyan luxury.
If you made up this story and stuck it in a movie, no one would believe it.. The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn.
Sure, he's nuttier than a friggin' fruitcake, but now he's also the recipient of 400,000 of your tax dollars
If you made up this story and stuck it in a movie, no one would believe it. It’s incomprehensible. Just plain incomprehensible.
CBS2 Chicago reports:
The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn.
The money would be divided between two foundations run by the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. A $200,000 share is set to go to the Gadhafi Development Foundation, which is run by Gadhafi’s son, Saif, and another $200,000 are to go to Wa Attassimou, an organization run by Muammar Gadhafi’s daughter, Aisha.
Kirk says the grants should be withdrawn in light of the recent return to Libya of Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Baset Megrahi. The terminally ill prisoner was released from in Scotland on compassionate grounds, and got a hero’s welcome from Muammar Gadhafi and other Libyans upon his return.
Saif Gadhafi was involved in negotiating for Megrahi’s release, and accompanied him back to Libya.
Give money to Mother Teresa. Give money to the SPCA. Give money to that damn Jerry Lewis Telethon. But who in their right mind would give money to a “charity” run by an insane terrorist dictator who runs a country that sits atop a giant pool of oil?
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi’s request to meet 1000 prominent Italian women during his trip to Italy last week generated skepticism and amusement in equal measure.
Gaddafi and the Hottie: Italian Minister of Equal Opportunities Mara Cafagna
It’s easy to think that maybe Muammar Gaddafi might have a screw loose based on nothing more than his elaborate costumes uniforms. But then he opens his mouth and confirms the theory that he’s nuttier than a fruitcake.
The Libyan strongman and nutcase recently visited Italy. The Age, one of Melbourne’s leading newspapers, describes the Twilight Zone episode that ensued:
(Libyan leader) Colonel Gaddafi’s request to meet 1000 prominent Italian women during his trip to Italy last week generated skepticism and amusement in equal measure. An exotic assemblage filed in. There were leading figures from politics, culture and industry; ministers posed for cameras, lawyers talked earnestly in their seats and reality TV personalities blew kisses across the aisles….
Mara Cafagna, a former topless model turned Minister of Equal Opportunities…started proceedings by describing the event as an “important day for relations between Italy and Libya”.
Ms Cafagna, who once described her experiences as Miss Italy as “a competition that makes you as a woman”, admirably espoused her new role as a figurehead of women’s rights…
Colonel Gaddafi drummed his fingers on the table, lounged back in his large leather chair and perused his little green book, occasionally beckoning one of his female bodyguards…who shuffled back and forth with drinks and boxes of tissues….
Then it all went a bit wrong. Using a peculiar example of a steam train driver, Colonel Gaddafi called for two systems in the professional forum — “one suitable for men, the other for women”.
With growing murmurs in the auditorium and a few noisy exits, Colonel Gaddafi tried to regain some credibility by denouncing the treatment of women in Arabic and Islamic societies.
“Why should these women have to apply to the head of state for the right to drive a car?” he asked. The audience applauded politely, but were soon laughing incredulously as he went on to add that this was a matter that “their husbands or brothers should decide”.
He did not mingle but sat behind an imposing desk up on the stage, with Ms Carfagna next to him on a chair, blowing kisses to the women as he left.
