By Wikipedia As Libya burns and as the foundation of its brutal 40- year-old regime shakes and shudders, it is not just the thuggish family of tyrant Muammar…
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (born 1 April 1952) is an alleged former Libyan intelligence officer, head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, and director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tripoli, Libya. On 31 January 2001, Megrahi was convicted, by a panel of three Scottish judges sitting in a special court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, of 270 counts of murder for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. His co-accused, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah was found not guilty and was acquitted. Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish government on 20 August 2009 following doctors reporting on the 10 August 2009 that he had terminal prostate cancer and had less than three months to live. His release and subsequent return to Libya has stirred controversy. Six months after his release he was alive and living as a free man.
