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THE MEASURE OF JUSTICE FOR THE LOCKERBIE VICTIMS

By International Association of Penal Law

There is an old saying that no good deed goes unpunished. In the past few days, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has certainly made sure of that with the ?compassionate? release of the only convicted Lockerbie airline bomber, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. From the beginning, questions were raised about the terminal nature of the convict?s cancer, and whether justice required his continued imprisonment regardless of his terminal illness. Many families of the crash victims expressed outrage; Scottish officials said many of the victims? family members supported the release. Initially, the Scottish and British authorities played a delicate game of diplomacy, unwilling either to assume responsibility for the release or to blame responsibility for the release to the other...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).