Wow, just as you think the row over Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's release on compassionate grounds to go back home to Libya to see out the rest of his live is about to fizzle out - BANG - the Sunday Times releases details of leaked letters between Jack Straw and Kenny MacAskill.
The Sunday Times says "The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests."
Jack Straw is trying to brush this away by saying this is all "academic" now as the decision was made on compassionate grounds not under the prisoner transfer agreement.
The oil agreement was ratified some 6 weeks before but Jack Straw was also quick to pint out that the Scottish Government could have vetoed any move to send al-Megrahi home under the transfer agreement. The BBC website is also carrying the story this morning.
So, the row goes on and I suspect will do so now for some weeks, if not months.
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3 comments:
I just pray he doesn't harm any more people.
A thoroughly disingenuous article from the Times. Negotiations on prisoner transfer played no part in McAskill's decision. Different law, different jurisdiction, different Government, different personnel.
Well, what do they want from us...sympathy? He caused so many people to die...well, we'll give him our "sorries" but not for what he did.
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