It was only 90 days ago that we were told that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi had only three months to live. Well he lives and breathes today. Officials in Libya last week confirmed that Megrahi had been discharged from Tripoli Medical Centre.
Colonel Gaddafi’s regime has publicly declared its hope that “a miracle from God” would preserve al Megrahi’s life. Guido is ashamed to say that he is a bit more cynical…
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Guido chuckled at the following exchange he had with a Tory insider:
Tory: “What’s Labour’s position on the Syria crisis?”
GF: “They say you should be talking to Russia.”
Tory: “Labour have been saying that since 1945.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
Whoops – there goes Bruins chances of meeting Obama again.
Doubt it.
The US faux ‘outrage’ was for purely for the cameras as they knew this was in motion and likely to happen long ago
From a letter the US Embassy sent to MacAskill and the Scottish Executive a couple of weeks before his release…
“the US position (is) that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer which we strongly oppose”
And the US had a steady stream of lobbyists for Exxon, Chevron and their congressional friends courting and praising Gadafi in the weeks and months before his release like John McCain. Just like Brown, Bliar and their minions did with BP
though it’s all fairly academic since Megrahi didn’t do it
Obama just won’t want to be seen with a loser like Brown if he can help it so Megrahi not dying as fast as some would like is unlikely to change that very much
He didn’t do it. Hope he has time with his family.
ATTENTION LABOUR F*CKWITS CAUGHT IN CYBERSCAM
http://tinyurl.com/yhwrup8
OH DEAR SOMEONES IN TROUBLE
You’re obviously from the wrong (sorry, the compassionate!) side of the border!
No he’s not ,he’s from the “The First Trial was a stitch up” side of the border and the “Cops with-holding evidence that probably would have influenced the second trial just isn’t right” side.
The very last thing Britain and America wanted or needed was the true story of Lockerbie to be told.There will never be a public inquiry until those who covered up the truth and invented a story for their own ends are long dead,that’s the way of things in “the great democracies”.
Lockerbie was an atrocity and those who committed it should be made to pay,they won’t,they’ll never be known to save the reputations of those supposed to defend us.Megrahi didn’t bomb the plane,it had nothing to do with Libya,America knows that,Britain knows that…every intelligence service in the Western world and beyond knows that.They also know who did…and are not telling.
Anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes researching Pan AM 103 knows that Al Megrahi was framed. Gadhafi only sent him because Libya had lost something like $40 billion from sanctions and he believed in EU/UK justice and knew there was no evidence to convict Al Megrahi.
That was until they used three judges instead of a normal Scottish jury of 15 jurors. The judges came to the ‘right’ verdict. The evidence was crap, the witnesses were paid and changed their stories and the UN observer at the trial said that it was a joke and Al Megrahi shouldn’t have been convicted.
Personally I’m happy to see terrorists rot in jail, but not innocent people who have been fitted up, the West Midlands Regional Crime Squad of the 1980′s would have been proud of that.
here here!
i was just thinking that the 3 months must be up. i dont have time to read the comments and i apologise if its been said before, but i believe he is innocent and therefore it matters not if he lives 3 months or 3 years.
thankyou.
Who will last lonnger McRubbish as PM or Megrarh ? My money is on Megrahi.
I here is taking part in an iron man compitition this weekend, and climbing Everest next weekend.
W.W.
Its at Minehead, Somerset 2010
daer clonole gadafffee, my governmmmment has maed a mistek. We shud ahve releesd somwun else insted. Pleese Cololen can yuo send Mr Megarih … Smegraih …OH BUGGER … Megrahi back to us?
PS Peter says thanks for the dates and the little boys you sent him.
A miracle of Gord.
Damn, I was going to post that.
Gord is dead
Don’t taunt us so,
Gord is great!
Gord the magnificent – give us the hunger, the hunger…
give us the power!!!!
The power of life………..
If I though he was guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, I’d be outraged by this.
But as I’m pretty sure he was the fall guy, I’m only angry at the British political and Scottish legal system that had him in goal for years as an innocent man….
Maybe if he was in goal Scotland would still be in the world cup
The Accused is an innocent man, Yes i am, i’m an innocent man, woh woh woh woh woh !
Get your fucking spelling right or we’ll twat you then get the spolling rong ourselves making us a laughing stock
Doubt it, remember Alan Rough?
And Jim Leighton?
Get up to speed guys. Lockerbie is generally accepted (in intell circles) as an Iran / Palestinian response to the idiocy of USS Vicennes. Megrahi was willing to stand in for political reasons, and is now enjoying his just rewards.
but don’t forget Andy Goram who was the better of a certain Mr Schmiechel.
How could I forget Andy Goram who was diagnosed with schizophrenia ?
Opposing fans used to chant :
“There’s only two Andy Gorams !”
He’s a Gaddafi henchman. Who cares? Lock them all up.
Miracles can happen: Earnest Saunders, the crooked Guinness conspirator, miraculously recovered from Alzheimers, the first person in history to do so, after having his jail sentence reduced because of the disease.
Good Point “Toffs” Dont do time As We Will See When The “Troughers Come Before The Beak !
You’re missing the point. Saunders was anything but a toff – he took the bullet whilst the chinless wonders got off scot-free
very true!
After having been placed under house arrest in Britain and initiating a judicial battle, he was eventually released in March 2000 on medical grounds by the Home Secretary Jack Straw without facing trial
Pinochet returned to Chile on 3 March 2000. His first act when landing in Santiago’s airport was to triumphantly get up from his wheelchair to the acclaim of his supporters
Pinochet died on the morning of December 3 2006
Well Megrahi only has a mere 6 years 6 months to catch up on Pinochet’s ‘miracle’ recovery and Megrahi has the disadvantage fo not actually being guilty either
I suppose you think Allende was a good man, do you?
I Believe It Was The Right Thing To Do And I Wish The Mugabe family every success in the future !
That should do it ! He’ll be dead by Monday !
Gordon, try wishing yourself well!!
I see Crash Gordon has offered to help the flooded towns of Cumbria in any way he can.
That’s the end of them, I guess!
Gordon Bennett – that’ll please the Yanks! Of course, having left the country of the son of the manse, I guess Al Megrahi is benefiting from a reverse curse of the one-eyed manster!
If mcdoom released he would be dead by now but because the scots released him he avoided the jonah curse
My Nan died 2 weeks after being diagnosed with cancer, if only she would have had the forethought to blow up a plane I would be getting an extra Christmas present this year.
Sick but very funny.
And a hairy chin kiss!
Why did you take the Death Panels article down? http://order-order.com/2009/11/19/yes-ms-palin-britain-does-have-nhs-death-panels/ is 404.
It was bullshit yes, but if you post it, stand by it. Fucking pussy.
It is scheduled for later today since the news agenda is elsewhere at the moment. Isn’t it past your bedtime?
error not found……grow up
he didn’t like the response
Mr Fawkes seems to think everyone in Britain is as enamoured of Palin as he is
Given the choice between the girlie Palin and the coconut O’Bummer I need time to consider my position.
we aren’t talking about who you’d like to fuck
Well, neocon fuckwits abound, I’ll have Palin while you take Lady Ashton. A deal?
Wah wah wah. Palin was right, suck it up, Labtard.
Wah Wah Wah. Palin is a Quitter and a moron, suck it up Neotard
She’ll be back.
Gordon Brown: Single Handedly Finds A Cure For Bowl Cancer
A Trip To Libya
I’ve had a good look, but none of my bowls have cancer. There’s a plate with a small chip, but I can live with that
Every day, in every way, we see cheats prosper so why are we surprised?
That’s what relief from eating battered deep fried Mars bars, and smoking 60 fags a day can do for you.
you know when doctors say people have three months to live, that’s an estimate, right?
No, really?
I’d estimate he’s got another 20 years, the awkward сunt.
If your on harley street its a guide to how long your estate will last before your credit runs out .
If you’re on the NHS it is a guide as to how long they are willing to let you block a bed for, before you are assisted to shuffle off your mortal coil if you have the affrontery still to be alive.
All in the name of meeting optimal performance targets, you understand.
Oh how they must all laugh when Al Megrahi gets together with the mad colonel and the murderer of Yvonne Fletcher.
What a wheeze to discuss old times and enjoy the timidity of the effete British over a few sheeps’ eyes and a nice cup of tea.
So what is you point Guido??
As he had fuck all to do with the crime, isn’t that cause for rejoice?
You are Gadaffi’s bum boy and I claim my £5…
Well That’s about right.
Looks like a filler post to me. Where’s the news about Curry.
Guess it’s not on the agenda right?
Not sure this is the right forum for this but If you insist.
Directions:
Mix the beef strips with oil and garlic. Heat wok on high. Stir-fry the beef strips in batches 1 minute, removing each batch when cooked.
Before returning beef strips to wok, add capsicum (sliced) and sliced mushrooms with a sprinkling of water. Stir for 2 minutes.
Return beef strips. Add curry paste, fish sauce, coconut milk, brown sugar, chopped spinach and chopped basil. Toss to heat through. Then serve with boiled rice and fresh basil leaves.
Serves 4.
I think curry paste is someone who is the chair of the standards committe , river cottage at 30k on tax payer for je tem weekends , says hes wife is french sacre bleu or cordon bleu .
thats the trouble with curry posing as a posh resturant and finding out its meat filled kebab , cheque please
She fucked up the eggs then fucked John Major and made Britain laugh
What more news do you need?
Don’t be silly. You’ll be asking him to cover Ashcroft next.
Jimmy,
Surprised that you Jimmy, Guido’s closest follower, could forget:
http://order-order.com/2007/10/25/sainsbury-v-ashcroft/
http://order-order.com/2009/02/23/ashcroft-should-come-clean-2/
I’m afraid one of them predates my guidophilia. I was unaware that you had done two, rather than only one pro-Ashcroft pieces. Imagine my surprise. Not sure what point you’re trying to make here though. Perhaps I’m just being dim.
Who the fuck are Herman Van Rumpy Pumpy and Baroness Ashtray? The Job Millipede said must go to someone who’s motorcade will stop traffic has gone to the most obscure Belgian who ever lived, what a fucking farce.
Mark You!
Ashtray is a real babe.
Wrinkles Wrule.
All you need to know is that Van Rumpy-Pumpy is a “federalist” and will push forward for a Federal Europe in line with what French and German wishes. AshTown is a Labour stooge and put in place by Europe as a “sop” to the UK(the Europeans simply don’t understand British public opinion – this will cause a bit of bother as we go forward) and so that Brown can claim he is setting the agenda in Europe
The only “good” news is that Blair was scuppered!!!
Blair was scuppered, yes…by Brown!! The Fourth Reich rumbles on.
Mandy will undoubtedly wreak the necessary revenge for his master.
Should be a fun weekend for the weakest end of them all.
AshTray was only there in the first place because she was parachuted into Mandlescum’s old EU job to avoid the need for Gordo “my middle name is Courage” McBust to have to call a by-election if a sitting MP had been put into the job.
Her appointment to the EU Commission was, in the first place, invalid. As a life time member of the House of Lords, she remains a member of a national legislature and therefore is disqualified from being a Commissioner. She is therefore also equally disqualified from this “High Representative” rubbish.
However, when has the EU allowed its own rules to stand in the way of “the Project”?
“Baroness” AshTray is also most likely guilty of swearing a false oath by virtue of the terms of the oath she was required to take when becoming a commissioner. That is oath is directly contrary to her continuing obligations as a member of the UK legislature. Either she did not intend to uphold the oath she took or she did so and thereby was acting in direct breach of her obligations to the UK Crown arising from her membership of the House of Lords.
You can’t have it both ways, Ashtray (or maybe you can if you don’t feel bound by anything you ever say!). In any event, it is clear that Ashtray’s word is most certainly not her bond.
scottish labour party cant believe there luck
Megrahi just needs to enter tripoli marathon–and SNP are foooked
Lol raisng money for Labourgo4th
I don’t think the Scottish voters believe Megrahi is guilty any more than the rest of the world.
As others have said, if I thought for one second he was guilty I’d be raging but since it was obviously as much a stitch-up as 45-minutes to save the world or WMD then really I couldn’t give a shit.
It was the Iranians wot done it. As rvenge for the USS Vincennes shooting down an Iranian plane. And the yanks, with their customary feel for the suffering of others then awarded the guy responsible witha medal and a promotion.
No wonder they were in the mood for blowing up a plane.
Speaking of miracles, how’s Ronnie Biggs doing ?
You know, Ronnie is Ronnie!, John is John, bliah, bliah, bliah
He’s close to death and hasn’t got long to live (allegedly)!
Apparently he’s feeling fit enough to go out and watch a football match!!
http://timesonline.typepad.com/crime/2009/11/ronnie-biggs-i-want-to-go-to-the-emirates.html
So what, he didn’t do it. You’re obviously not clued up on the blatant cangaroo whitewash of the whole thing, Geedough.
CW found QT a bit of slippers event but rather enjoyed nick ferrari mps are corrupt moment rather good , phil woolas thought he was on wine tasting show , and managed to turn all questions in vin du table except immigration cap question which he had given a bit of thought ,but alas still at the no answer stage , clair short is surprisingly still upset at george bush and ming managed to ride the fence all thorugh the show . chris grayling was deft and sailed steady .
TW was Andrew Neil on abrasive topical form , and thought dianes analysis of labour leader problem was interesting , cant change him yet milliband could save them seats . Chrish Huhnes thinking on right wing swings was slightly out as being anti EU isnt nescesarly right wing , CW view of the EU is like having to escort a grandparent to a brothel , you have to make excuses and fib about what the people are doing and how much they earn , explain it as a scoial club , pay way over the odds for a pint , and try to point out the high art of the flesh pressing , when grandparent says why are you paying for this , you know youve grown, hopefully before your skint .
Peter Stringfellow does femanism ?? would someone please tell me what the opposite of femanism is , malism doesnt seem quite right , but the again if a bloke got promoted through wearing a tight fitting officer and gentleman uniform and rubbing skin cream on after office weights workout everyday , what would that constsitute ?? I dont particulary like angry women who get promoted through discrimantion , but a dam site more get promoted through being sugar babes , lets see how much wimmins movement likes the outlawing of sugar babes, city would collapse .
harriet trys the ruins defence “it was nae me”
and PSBR of 88 times what it was 12 months ago , well done grade A , a leagcy i hope that will ensure labour never see office again even though most of us will be taxed to death , marvelling at when we can have two light bulbs on at once .
I missed the katie price reference in todays education questions , must be a classic exchange if ever there was one .
CW caught big sell for new coal burning power station in ed millibands constitunacey , with carbon capture add on is it £1.2 bn , but this doesnt appear to include the cost of the carbon capture and storage bit , great uncosted unproven expense of the socialist imagination , Cw wants to know how much the project has cost so far and who got the money being as it will be a bog standard power station until the technology can be made to work .
No mention of how much extra stuff you have to burn to bury the CO2 thereby making the efficency meaning money should have gone on renewables , so much for copenhagen , what next clean gerrymandering at Bonn !
why isn’t Jeffrey Archer dead yet ?
In b4 some lefty/Islamist dickhead whines about the Vincennes again.
Why is Ruper Murdoch not dead yet – coz Guido keeps giving him the kiss of life.
O/T
BRUSSELS — EUROPEAN UNION LEADERS PICKED THE LOW-KEY PRIME MINISTER OF BELGIUM AND A BRITISH TRADE REPRESENTATIVE WHO HAS NEVER HELD ELECTED OFFICE AS THE BLOC’S FIRST PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN MINISTER.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125865479105255999.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
There had been weeks of horse trading, but the heads of the 27 EU nations settled quickly and unanimously on Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton over dinner here Thursday after former British Prime Minister Tony Blair — who had been hoping for a political revival — lost the backing of his government.
Mr. Van Rompuy is an accidental holder of his current office, becoming prime minister after a tenuous coalition between the country’s French and Dutch speakers fell apart. King Albert II turned to Mr. Van Rompuy as a conciliator, and he became prime minister.
Lady Ashton, made Baroness of Upholland in 1999 by the Labour government, had a number of junior ministerial roles in education and the ministry of justice before becoming leader of the House of Lords in 2007. When Peter Mandelson resigned last year as EU trade commissioner to return to the U.K. government, she was appointed to succeed him in Brussels, her first international job.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced several problems pursuing the EU presidency job.
Mr. Blair’s candidacy faded after he failed to secure the backing of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It formally ended when, sensing that there wasn’t enough support for him, Prime Minister Gordon Brown ceased championing the man he served as treasury chief for a decade. Instead, Mr. Brown put Britain’s efforts into pushing Lady Ashton.
Mr. Van Rompuy, a Christian Democrat from Belgium’s Dutch-speaking north, belongs to the largest party in Belgium’s fragmented politics. A devout Catholic and a conservative, he has a graduate degree in economics and spent several years as Belgium’s budget minister.
As prime minister, he’s spent much of his time dealing with the financial crisis, which hobbled Belgian banks and has strained the country’s finances as Belgium moved to bail them out. His government has introduced levies on deposits, saying banks need to pay for part of the bailout.
U.K. Prime Minister Brown said he still believed Mr. Blair would have been a good president but that political parties “became more important than people expected.” He emphasized the importance of the foreign-minister post because that person is also vice president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm.
European officials say the foreign-minister role could turn out to be more important than that of president.
One European official said Lady Ashton’s department would be responsible for a diplomatic corps and staff of close to 3,000 people, which would be likely to grow, and also was in charge of the European Union’s military missions overseas. Her annual budget could come to 4 billion euros ($5.96 billion), this person said………………..
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/
Back to Magrahi.
FFS! Its “sceptical” NOT “cynical”, as in
“It was a ‘cynical’ mis-use of the judicial system and we are ‘sceptical’ about how ill he really was”
Look it up in a decent Oxford dictionary…
Guido is cynical. You are sceptical.
Pedant 60: FFS, it’s “Megrahi”, not Magrahi.
Furthermore, it’s “it’s” when (and only when) it’s a contraction of “it is”. So you are wrong on that score, too (you omitted the apostrophe).
If you are going to be a pedant, try being correct!
Anyone remember the days when Labour said that they would be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime? Brown has made them soft on terrorism.
The release of Magrahi was a national disgrace and an insult to our closest ally.
Hey Jock Bastards
Tripoli Med center bit better than Cambuslang Med center with A and E swimming in Thunderbird, vomit and ugly skanks in shell suits eating Revels in Batter with sweet and sour sauce.
Amazing what clean sheets, good food and professional care can do instead of being incarcerated in a Third World Country.
Wow! a shit-for-brains ignorant bigot
That’s the last thing I expected to see on here
Keep up the good work by making Guidos blog look like a refuge for the pathetic scum, nutters and dregs all the other blogs have told to fuck off long ago
jbm2: are you trying to suggest that people in Scotland do not “enjoy” the shortest life expectancy in the EU?
and thank God for it!!
“Keep up the good work by making Guidos blog look like a refuge for the pathetic scum, nutters and dregs all the other blogs have told to fuck off long ago.”
Oh go on then jbm2, tell us which blog you were on before you came here and took refuge as you seem to me to meet the criteria outlined in your rabid post.
keep fucking your sister
Quelle Fucking Surprise as they say in France…
Lets bet he’s still alive come the election
Oh are where are we on the killing of Yvonne Fletcher? Thought so
Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime, that’s Gordon and Milli-banana!
Wasn’t it Blair who made a big thing of ‘tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’?
What he meant was ‘trough all the time, tough on the victims of crime’?
I hope he has a slow painful death. Really I do.
mehgrahi is probably receiving far superior medical attention than he could ever get in jockland or ukandia
But wait!
Labour told us we ’24 hours to save the NHS’!
How’s that going, surely we ‘saved’ it? No? It’s still sh*t?
No, we are spending more than ever before and our service is being reduced. We used to have mamogram facilities at our local general hospital, now we have to drive for over an hour to get to the hospital and it is over 80 miles round journey.
We used to have an ENT special unit. Now we have a clinic once a fortnight! Thank God I am healthy and train regularly in martial arts.
AND they lost my medical records!
Think I am going to trust my personal information with any government agency for the ID card scheme? Think again!
It was probably the Iranians anyway…
Talking of Scottish goalkeepers. There was a certain Frank Haffey who let in NINE yes NINE goals against England at Wembley in 1961.
The trouble is that the Trial Court did not convict the appellant as the principal perpetrator – there was no finding that he was responsible for introducing the IED into the airline baggage
system and thus onto Pan Am 103. He was convicted as an accessory on the basis that he assisted in carrying out part of the common criminal plan to commit the crime. The only act found to have been carried out by the appellant which could amount to participation in the crime was the purchase of clothing which was found to have been in the same suitcase as the IED.
The Telegraph reported this on the 2nd November
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6487842/Lockerbie-bomber-Abdelbaset-al-Megrahi-discharged-from-hospital.html
Must remember this the next time you start bragging about the speed of the blogosphere etc.
bookies odds–to see there maker
thatcher 4/7
Megrahi 7/4
biggs 10/1
Re the amazing recovery, reminds me of Ernest Saunders and his pre-Alzheimers condition
(In a 1990 trial, Ernest Saunders and three other executives were convicted of theft and false accounting. Saunders served nine months of a 2.5-year sentence, released early due to health concerns)
First and only such case, I seem to remember. he was back in business in no time.
Our legal system is thoroughly corrupt, like the political system.
Really, how interesting!! For Christ’s sake grow up!!
You’re right to be cynical (no shame there) but I would direct your fire at those quacks in Jockland who diagnosed him. Will they be visiting Mr Megrahi in the near future to sample El Quadafi’s benevelance?
Or should the GMC be calling them up to explain themselves?
Has anyone asked Mark Field if the New Slapper on the Block is a good shag? Or has anyone asked the New Slapper if Mark Field is a good shag? This should get the faggots tongues wagging…
Guilt or innocent is irrelevant. The SNP and Labour colluded to prevent the courts from coming to any decision. The rest is all bollocks…written in legalese.
Fair comment. Justice was seen to be NOT done.
He should have been allowed his day in court to clear his name.
Good! He was probably innocent anyway. Gaddhafi\Qaddafi\Bad-hairdo-guy\whatever is the person who should be banged up. Pity they’ve got oil really …
I was watching Sky News a few weeks back and the report came on screen that al-Megrahi had died. Forgot all about him until reading this.
Anyone else see that report?
Al Lazarus
Te decision to release him was made by the SNP “Justice” Minister Kenny McCaskill. For this he was compared by Alex Salmond to Ghandi. Presumably Mr Salmond didnt manage to stay awake to the end of that film.
He was never compared to Ghandi yet. Only in the mind of BBC.
“Alex Salmond last night reignited the row over the release of the Lockerbie bomber by comparing the man who freed him to Gandhi”
The Herald 18/10/09
Brow’s gone up to Cumbria. As if they haven’t got enough to worry about.
He should keep away from the water in case a whale appears and swallows him.