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Doctor Who Found Pan Am Bomber To Have Less Than Three Months To Live Now Says He Could Live Another 10 Years

Professor Karol Sikora describes the situation as a bit “embarrassing.” Sikora was hired by the Libyan government to find that terrorist Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi had less than three months to live. While other doctors refused to make such a finding, Sikora did so. The Scottish government decided to release Megrahi, 58 — the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of a US Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie killing 270 people. He was released on compassionate grounds in August 2009.

Megrahi was a former Libyan intelligence officer, head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, and director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tripoli, Libya.

Sikora, the dean of medicine at Buckingham University and medical director of CancerPartnersUK in London, insisted that “[t]here was always a chance he could live for 10 years, 20 years … But it’s very unusual.” He then proceeds to say “[i]t was clear that three months was what they were aiming for. Three months was the critical point. . . On the balance of probabilities, I felt I could sort of justify [that].”

Megrahi has been treated as a national hero in Libya.

Technically, the formal recommendation for release was made by Dr. Andrew Fraser, director of health and care at the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).

Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw admitted last year that trade and oil agreements were an essential part of the British government’s decision to include Megrahi in a previously planned prisoner transfer agreement with Libya. Straw told the Scots that Megrahi’s release was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom.” It appears that his medical condition then became demonstrably worse.

Source: Telegraph.

8 thoughts on “Doctor Who Found Pan Am Bomber To Have Less Than Three Months To Live Now Says He Could Live Another 10 Years”

  2. Just as the Black Death knew no bounds in its destruction of mankind … corporate greed, man’s modern day plague, does the same. I suggest a giant quarantine of all execs, stockholders and government toadies … if we don’t, these plague infested humans will be the death of all of us. Save the human race!

  3. Jack Straw seems to be the only one to admit to the charge of a terrorist for oil transfer.

    BP said they didn’t.

    The Scots said they didn’t.

    {The Scottish government insists Kenny MacAskill, the justice minister who took the final decision to release Megrahi, based his ruling on a medical report by Dr Andrew Fraser, director of health and care at the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).

    A spokesman said Professor Sikora’s advice to Libya “had no part to play in considerations on the Megrahi case”.}

    {An investigation by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which lasted three years, concluded that there were six grounds for believing Megrahi may have suffered a miscarriage of justice. }

    Not enough proof for me, yet. Let’s see some tapes/documents.

  4. Oil, that is, BP gold, well the first thing you know a terrorist is let go.

    DotUS,

    So does this really surprise you, in the least?

  7. Another interesting tidbit buried in the article:

    “An investigation by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which lasted three years, concluded that there were six grounds for believing Megrahi may have suffered a miscarriage of justice.”

    Do tell. Sounds like oil, fabricated medical reports, and maybe a guilty conscience combined for this little diplomatic maelstrom.

  8. I guess that is why they call it a medical “Practice” hmm, you say trade…That is probably the real reason….

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