It would be far better if Libya's al-Gaddafi would come forward during Ramadan to purge the sins of such people that plot evil acts against other human beings of other faiths.
Ramadan is a time of accounting. It is time Libya made an example of one of her own in an accounting of a former terrorist state.
Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi
...Al-Megrahi (click title to entry), believed to have less than three months to live, was released on the order of Scotland’s justice minister despite strong opposition from the United States, which had campaigned to keep him in prison.
Pan Am Flight 103 was carrying 189 Americans when it left London for New York on Dec. 21, 1988. In all, 259 people on board and 11 on the ground were killed in the bombing.
“He is a dying man, he is terminally ill,” Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill told reporters in explanation. “My decision is that he returns home to die.”
In a statement issued by his lawyer after his departure from Glasgow Airport, Al-Megrahi said that he was innocent and had been wrongly jailed, but also thanked the people of Scotland for setting him free.
“To those victims’ relatives who can bear to hear me say this: they continue to have my sincere sympathy for the unimaginable loss that they have suffered,” he said. “Those who bear me ill will, I do not return that to you.
“This horrible ordeal is not ended by my return to Libya. It may never end for me until I die. Perhaps the only liberation for me will be death.”...
Ramadan begins on SaturdayArab News (click here)
JEDDAH: The holy month of Ramadan will start on Saturday, according to a Royal Court statement on Thursday.
“As no crescent sighting was reported on Thursday evening, Friday will be the 30th day of Shaaban and Saturday, the 22nd of August, will be the first day of the holy month of Ramadan,” the Royal Court quoted a statement of the Supreme Court as saying.
The Supreme Court met at its summer headquarters in Taif on Thursday, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Saudi Arabia arrests 44 suspected militants (click here)
APPublished: August 19, 2009, 17:05
Riyadh: The Saudi Interior Ministry says authorities have arrested 44 suspected militants who sought to recruit youths and finance their "deviant activities" through charitable donations.
In a statement carried Wednesday by the official Saudi Press Agency, the ministry says the 44 were arrested in a campaign that began July 9 and ended August 2.
It says some of those arrested have received training on the use of light and heavy weapons in the kingdom and abroad. It says all but one are Saudi.
Saudi Arabia has pursued an aggressive campaign against militants since May 2003, when they first began attacks in the kingdom. The country is the birthplace of Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and home to 15 of the 19th September 11 hijackers.
