Is this Justice?

[Texy]

The White House blasted the jubilant, flag-waving Libyan crowds that greeted Pan Am bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in the 1988 killing of 270 people but is being embraced in Libya as a returning hero. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the elaborate homecoming in Tripoli for al-Megrahi was "outrageous and disgusting" — offensive to all the families of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie attack. As al-Megrahi woke up a free man Friday morning, Scots expressed their "shame" at their government's early release of the Libyan national, who was set free on compassionate grounds and flown back to die of cancer at home rather than behind bars. "I have never been ashamed to see my country's flag waved before, but to see it misused to celebrate mass murder is outrageous," Russell Brown, a member of Parliament, told The Scotsman. "This man is convicted of murdering 270 people in my part of Scotland and that conviction stands." Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack that killed 259 on board the airplane and left 11 people dead on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland, at its crash site. He was granted early release on compassionate grounds because of a terminal case of prostate cancer. "[The] government has made a mistake of international proportions," said David Mundell, a member of Parliament whose constituency includes Lockerbie. "These reports (of the flag being waved) are sickening." Residents of the small Scottish town were outraged by al-Megrahi's release, The Scotsman reported. The self-styled "Baby of Lockerbie" described the decision as "quite disgusting." Twenty-year-old Aimee Guthrie, who was born within an hour of the disaster, said she would have preferred it if al-Megrahi had been left to die in jail. Britain's foreign secretary David Miliband denounced the jubilant crowds and celebrations that greeted the convicted killer on the ground in Libya, and said the eyes of the world were on the country now. "I think it's very important that Libya knows — and certainly we have told them — that how the Libyan government handles itself in the next few days after the arrival of Mr. (al-)Megrahi will be very significant in the way the world views Libya's re-entry into the civilized community of nations," Miliband said. The United States also objected strenuously to the release of al-Megrahi, who spent roughly 11 days behind bars for each victim in the bombing. The White House declared it "deeply" regretted the Scottish decision, as President Obama warned Libya not to give him a hero's welcome. Pamela Dix, whose brother Peter died along with 269 others when the Pan Am jet exploded above Lockerbie in 1988, told The Scotsman, "I think a hero's welcome is entirely inappropriate in the circumstances. "He has been released on compassionate grounds, but he remains a convicted man. His return to Tripoli should not have been handled in this way."

[Texy]

VICTIMS: All 243 passengers and 16 crew members were killed. Eleven residents of Lockerbie also died. Most of the passengers were from the United States.[15] A Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry, which opened on 1 October 1990, heard that, when the cockpit broke off, tornado-force winds tore through the fuselage, tearing clothes off passengers and turning insecurely-fixed items like food and drink trolleys into lethal objects. Because of the sudden change in air pressure, the gases inside the passengers' bodies would have expanded to four times their normal volume, causing their lungs to swell and then collapse. People and objects not fixed down would have been blown out of the aircraft into the −46 °C (−50.8 °F) outside air, their 31,000-foot (9,400 m) fall lasting about two minutes.[10][page needed] Some passengers remained attached to the fuselage by their seat belts, crashing in Lockerbie strapped to their seats. Five members of the Dixit-Rattan family, including 3-year-old Suruchi Rattan, were flying to Detroit from New Delhi. They were supposed to be on Pan Am Flight 67, which had left Frankfurt for New York earlier in the day, but one of the children had fallen ill with breathing difficulties, and the pilot had taken the plane back to the gate to allow the family to disembark. The boy soon recovered, and the family was transferred to PA103 instead.[citation needed] Suruchi was wearing a bright red kurta and salwar—a knee-length tunic and matching trousers—for her journey. She became associated with a note left with flowers outside Lockerbie town hall that said "To the little girl in the red dress who lies here who made my flight from Frankfurt such fun. You didn't deserve this. God Bless, Chas."

[punjabi_khota]

He is dying, so whats the big deal with him being released ? Libyans celebrating it is very sickening though. And what's the deal with highlighting the Indian casualities ?