THE TELEGRAPH – BLOGS: Gordon Brown can’t have it both ways. On the one hand he claims that his determination to fight terrorism remains “absolute”. On the other he says he had “no role” in the decision to release Abdelbaset Ali Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of carrying out the Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people.
Well, if Mr Brown really is determined to fight terror, then he should very much have made it his business to have a role in the decision to repatriate Megrahi to Libya. He should have called up the Scottish government and ordered it keep Megrahi firmly locked up in his Scottish prison cell, no matter how ill the terrorist claimed to be.
It was so clearly in Britain’s national interest not to release Megrahi that the prime minister of the United Kingdom - and that includes Scotland - should have used all the powers at his disposal to play a central role in deciding Megrahi’s fate. >>> Con Coughlin | Tuesday, August 25, 2009
