

Published: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 5:10 PM
Updated: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 5:17 PM
Bruce Alpert, Times-Picayune
WASHINGTON -- Oliver Sartor, medical director at Tulane University Cancer Center, watched the August 2009 TV coverage as the Libyan man convicted for the deadly bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, was welcomed back to his home country....
...Sartor told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday that as he watched al-Megrahi get off the plane in Libya, where he was "greeted as a hero," he quickly realized that al-Megrahi was not near death.
"Patients who have less than three months to live, as Mr. al-Megrahi was said to be by the Scottish government, are typically unable to walk without assistance," said Sartor, who has spent 20 years specializing in treatment of prostate patients. "Indeed, they are often bed-ridden or close to bed-ridden because of the pain, weakness and weight loss that occurs as consequence of advanced cancer....