With President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also lining up to criticise the decision, it is now easier to count the senior American figures who have not spoken out than those who have.
In Britain questions have been raised over the evidence of a Maltese shopkeeper who identified Megrahi as having bought clothing that was found in a suitcase said to have contained the bomb and about the evidence of the managing director of a Swiss company that sold timers to the Libyans.
But the Americans believe there is sufficient evidence that Megrahi, a member of Libya’s intelligence services, was in Malta when the bomb was put on a connecting flight and that he visited Zurich where the timers were made.
[blockquote]In Britain questions have been raised over the evidence of a Maltese shopkeeper who identified Megrahi as having bought clothing that was found in a suitcase said to have contained the bomb and about the evidence of the managing director of a Swiss company that sold timers to the Libyans[/blockquote]
This is completely irrelevant and not to be taken into account in the release. It would only become relevant if an appeal were to be successful. The conviction stands.
No I am afraid the Scots have once again failed to come up to the mark. The current government have been a disaster both in the way they ordered things in Scotland allowing these nutters to take charge and in the way they have run England. And needless to say in the UK government they are mostly Scots at the top. When the devolved Scottish Parliament and executive are not releasing terrorists they are wasting money, much of it on themselves.
It has been an absolute disaster.
And it is backfiring on them…..and in ways yet unknown.
They need to rewrite the grand song to be Scotland The Brave…?
Better to find a piper to skirl a lament for the Scottish Parliament after this fiasco.