[BITList] BP faces Lockerbie accusations amid delays over oil captests | Environment | The Guardian

[HUGH]

Mike,

Is there no end to the depths (pun not intended) to which the US will take 
this matter?  I read :

<< With pressure mounting on BP, Clinton responded to reports that it had 
lobbied the British government for the release of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to 
help it clinch lucrative drilling contracts off the coast of Libya.>>

The Westminster Government had no say in the release of al-Megrahi, and I 
see no sign in the article that this had ever entered anyone's head over 
there.  It is likely the WG tried to interfere, but that would have been the 
limit.  I do know that a middle of the night phone call at the time, to the 
Scottish Police from some prat in the CIA or FBI or whatever, demanding his 
release be halted, was terminated frostily - I can imagine.

The decision to release the man was made by the appropriate Scottish 
authority, on the advice of the appropriate Scottish medical authority, for 
humanitarian reasons.  The gaggle of garbage emanating from interested 
parties from all over, criticising that medical advice vis a vis the man's 
failure to die quickly enough for them, is just part of the campaign to keep 
him guilty.  Guilty, my arse !  Now he's to blame for the BP oil spill - 
what next ?

Hugh.