Lockerbie

[grawrc]

I couldn't agree more. I've been reading and biting my tongue!! One salient point however. I don't know how much Scottish news is broadcast elsewhere. From the Scottish news is it clear that there is no love lost between the Scottish "Scottish Nationalist" government and the Labour government in Westminster. Indeed the Scottish Labour Party appears to be very much against the release of Mr Megrahi. I will accept the cynical view that the Scottish government was told what to do when I see the unexpected billions flowing into the Scottish coffers.

[grawrc]

[betula]

I have an answer that but as Flighty has said it could get over heated so I will leave it at that.

[Flighty]

I've just read this post by a blog friend which I feel is better than anything I've seen in the mainstream media

http://irishpisky.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/what-to-think/

[archiesdad]

IMO Al Megrahi does not qualify for compassionate release because he is a mass murderer - the worst of the worst. It doesn't matter to me all the conspiracies about whether he is guilty or not. The fact is he was found guilty in a fair trial plus he has lost one appeal already and now chosen not to appeal again to get out of prison.

There is a view that he got anything but a fair trial, major facts not revealed to the trial judges for example that the perimeter fence at Heathrow was breached on the day that Pan Am 103 took off - so the bomb could have been placed on board then and not in Malta as was claimed. Plus the guy who claimed to have sold the suitcase that contained the bomb to Al Megrahi was probably coerced. Plus the semtex traces found in the wreckage were from the same batch as a Palestinian terrorist sect that the West Germans had intercepted.... etc etc etc.

If he was involved at all then he deserves to rot in prison and should not have been released  - but what if he wasn't involved?