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Lockerbie tries to move on after bomber release Agence France Presse
LOCKERBIE, Scotland – The quiet Scottish town of Lockerbie is determined to play down Friday’s one-year anniversary of the freeing of the Libyan man convicted of blowing up an airliner over its skies. The Scottish government released Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi from jail on compassionate grounds on August 20, 2009, allowing him to return to Libya to die from terminal prostate cancer.
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A year on, Megrahi is still alive, a fact fuelling anger in the United States — where most of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 were from — at Scotland’s decision to free him. On December 21, 1988, Sherwood Crescent in Lockerbie was nearly wiped out when the wings of the jumbo jet fell from the sky and burst into a fireball. Now rabbits nibble at the grass covering what was once a huge crater. Eleven of the street’s residents died, along with 259 passengers and crew on the jet travelling from London to New York when it was blown up. Photographs of the aftermath show the charred shells of homes and cars, though not the bodies which lay in the gardens. Sherwood Crescent was rebuilt and is now, again, a quiet street of modest brick homes with neat gardens where lilies and roses bloom. Across Lockerbie, people want to move on — but that does not mean
forgetting what happened 22 years ago. One man who, like many in the town, was wary of giving his name said Megrahi should have ended his life behind bars in Scotland. “I think he should have died here and his body should have been flown back after — there’s a lot of people whose loved ones aren’t coming back,” he said. Others talked of alternative punishments which the Libyan should have faced rather than being sent home. Experts now say he could survive for several years thanks to new forms of cancer treatment. When Scotland’s Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill freed Megrahi, he said it was likely he only had three months to live. MacAskill declined AFP’s request for an interview but the Scottish government said medical experts told it at the time that the threemonth prognosis was “reasonable”. Continued on page 6
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FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, Libyan Abdel Baset alMegrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, left, and son of the Libyan leader Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, right, gesture on his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya. A year after Scotland’s release of the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber from prison caused an uproar, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is still stirring outrage simply by surviving.
Norway to pay 30 million dollars to save Indonesian forests Agence France Presse
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This photograph taken on August 5, 2010 during an aerial survey organized by environment group Greenpeace shows a logged over area in the vast track of pulp wood concession operating in the mountains of Jambi province in Indonesia’s Sumatra island.
JAKARTA - Norway agreed Thursday to advance 30 million dollars to Indonesia in the first installment of a planned billion-dollar scheme to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation. After two days of talks in Jakarta, Norwegian officials said they were satisfied that Indonesia was making progress towards its promise to impose a twoyear moratorium on deforestation starting in January 2011. “Indonesia... is taking a global leadership role on climate change. Norway is honoured to work with Indonesia in a partnership built on mutual trust and respect, and a long time friendship,” Norwegian Ambassador Eivind Homme said. “Our shared commitment to transparency, accountability and predictable contributions in return for agreed deliverables breaks new ground in international climate change collaboration.” He said the meetings in Jakarta had “brought us significantly forward” and he expected to be able to announce a “fully operational partnership” at a UN conference on climate change in Mexico in December. Continued on page 6