This entire Al Megrahi thing has just got out of hand. First off, Scotland is not Britain, Britain is not Scotland. Our touchy-feely Labour government has devolved power to the local assemblies for certain functions. So for example Scotland has control over it’s own Justice department.
This means that Scotland had the decision making power for releasing Al Megrahi, not the government in Westminster (and that’s the UK, what is commonly called ‘Britain’). We, the UK, did not decide to release him. The Scots did. So CNN, please learn that difference when reporting.
I think if you took a poll of the people in the whole UK and not just one part of it, you’d find most of us would let him rot in prison. Trade be damned – if he blew apart a plane full of passengers, he deserved to die in a small cell, and that would have been generous.
To make this worse of course, Gaddafi has now been seen meeting Al Megrahi on television. I certainly empathize with our American cousins over this, it was a disgrace that he was released and now we’re having our faces rubbed in it over oil and gas.
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Yeah BackAlley and he'll keep on looking like that for centuries to come :)