Libya 'bought' al-Megrahi's diagnosis

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Freed bomber al-Magrahi

LONDON -- Sir John Scarlett, the head of MI6, has admitted to Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he knew Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi paid "substantial fees" for three cancer specialists to "predict an early death" for the Lockerbie bomber, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Their verdict has plunged the crisis between London and Washington even further into what is described as a "diplomatic quagmire." It also has threatened the cooperation between the Secret Intelligence Service and the CIA.

The recommendations from the specialists regarding Ali Mohamed el-Megrahi terminal prostate cancer allowed him to be released on compassionate grounds from his Scottish prison where he had served eight years of his 20-year sentence.

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He is the first – and so far only – terrorist to be convicted over the deaths of 270 people from the destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland on the evening of December 21, 1988.

The three doctors who traveled to Scotland last July 28 to examine Megrahi were Prof. Karol Sikora, medical director of Cancer Partners UK, based in London, Prof. Jonathan Waxman, a renowned prostate cancer expert in London and Prof. Ibrahahim Sharif, an oncologist from the Tripoli Medical Centre, Libya.

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"The size of their fees and expenses are being kept secret," said an intelligence source. "But it would be safe to say they run well into six figures."

The actual payment was made through another controversial figure who has now emerged in the mounting controversy over Megrahi's release.

He is Moussa Kousa, the dapper Libyan foreign minister and head of its formidable intelligence service.

He was expelled from Britain in 1980 after announcing on the steps of the Libyan Embassy that Libya had taken a decision to kill two more people in the United Kingdom.

"I approve of this. I also approve of cooperating with the IRA if the UK government continues to support those Libyans living here," he said.

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But since 9/11 Kousa has been allowed to return to Britain to provide intelligence information on hundreds of al-Qaida extremists.

He also worked closely with MI6 in secret meetings which led to Libya announcing in 2003 it had given up weapons of mass destruction.

But last week his capacity as paymaster to the three cancer specialists Kousa's role once more brought him out of his shadowy world of intelligence.

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