The only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has returned home to Libya to die after Scotland released him from prison Thursday, a decision that outraged some relatives of the 270 people killed when the jetliner blew up over a Scottish town.
US President Barack Obama said the decision to free terminally ill Abdel Baset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds was a mistake and warned Libya not to give him a hero's welcome.
But thousands were on hand to greet him warmly when his plane from Scotland touched down at a military airport in Tripoli. There was a festive atmosphere with some wearing t-shirts with Megrahi's picture. Others waved Libyan and Scottish flags while Libyan songs blared. Many here see Megrahi as an innocent scapegoat of the West. Of course they do, they are sucked in by Qaddafi.
This was not compassionate by Scotland, but insensitive and unjust. It borders on legal lunacy. To top it off there was no possible 'second chance' for this man, only a hero's welcome home for a terrorist murderer!
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