Cameron’s refusal to hold a proper UK inquiry into the conviction of al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie atrocity on the grounds that “there was a proper process, a proper court proceeding” simply doesn’t stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
The most crucial evidence concerns the metal coatings and the circuit board of the timer fragment used in the bombing which was different from the timer which the Libyans believed was made exclusively for them. Continue reading
Not for the first time the Lockerbie narrative is being distorted out of all recognition for political ends, by the US-UK governments in the 1990s, by the UK Government and the Scottish Executive in 2009, and now by Cameron in his statement on Tuesday. Cameron’s line was that Labour “had done all it could to facilitate” the release of al-Megrahi by the Scottish Executive. What he didn’t say was what conceivable motive Labour might have had to act in that way: since Megrahi was held responsible for the deaths of 270 people, why should Labour go out of its way to get him released? Gus O’Donnell records a meeting with the Libyans in 2008 at which “the Libyans made clear that Megrahi’s death in custody would have very serious implications to UK/Libya relations”. But why should the UK submit to crude blackmail of this kind from Libya – unless it had its own ulterior motive? It did. Continue reading
