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Lockerbie bomber: 270 dead.
Osama Bin Laden: 3000 dead in WTC, 9/11.
Curtis LeMay: 300,000 Japanese dead in incendiary and nuclear raids during WWII.
Khmer Roughe: More than 2 million. Carter administration called it the worst violator of human rights and voted to keep its representation in UN.
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Bush administration: 1 million plus in Iraq and who knows how my elsewhere in the world.
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Well, it might be nice if the government was more authentic about the whole thing. What is their real agenda for letting this man out? Is there some political advantage?
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From reading wikipedia, there's definitely politics involved.
On 14 September 2008, the Arab League Ministerial Council passed a resolution calling for the 'political hostage' Megrahi to be released from prison in Scotland. The resolution demanded that the UK government should hand to Megrahi's lawyers the documents which the SCCRC had identified, adding that Britain's refusal to do so represented a 'miscarriage of justice'.
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On 14 August 2009, Megrahi withdrew his appeal. South of Scotland SNP MSP Christine Grahame said, "There are a number of vested interests who have been deeply opposed to this appeal continuing as they know it would go a considerable way towards exposing the truth behind Lockerbie.... In the next days, weeks and months new information will be placed in the public domain that will make it clear that Mr Megrahi had nothing to do with the bombing of Pan Am 103." Tam Dalyell, the former Labour MP for West Lothian has long believed Megrahi is the victim of a catastrophic miscarriage of justice, and has publicly stated that Megrahi is merely a scapegoat
Maybe they made a trade with the Libryian government and got something in return for letting him go.
Maybe they didn't want the appeal going to court because it would have revealed some information about the MI6 that they want to keep disclosed.
Compassionate grounds simply means that the don't want to tell the exact grounds in this case.
I also don't see a problem in trading the release for someone like him for some benefit with Lybia.