Gary Gibbon
Lockerbie – a tale of two briefings
A White House “readout” of the phone call between President Obama and the Prime Minister reveals something that seems to have slipped off the No. 10 version of events.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Scottish letters reveal Libyan pressure?
The correspondence on Lockerbie supports the story that the government U-turned on whether al-Megrahi should be excluded from a prisoner transfer agreement or not. The letters have already been selectively leaked – they’re now all there on the Foreign and Commonwealth, Ministry of Justice and Scottish government websites. More interesting perhaps is something about to…
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Jon Snow
Megrahi – the Ronnie Biggs connection
Over the summer, the fog of ‘conspiracy’, ‘commercial deals’ and more have clouded around the fundamentals of what we know about the ‘early release’ of the convicted Libyan ‘Lockerbie bomber’. I’ll be surprised if today’s release by Edinburgh and London of the ‘Lockerbie papers’ dispels the clouds significantly.
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Meeting Lockerbie bomber Megrahi on his sickbed
It’s been one of those days that feels like a month. I can hardly remember this morning. This afternoon will stay with me though. At 4.30pm I met the Lockerbie bomber. It looked to me as though Abdel Basset al-Megrahi wasn’t long for this world. If he was going to face sentencing “by a higher power,”…
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Gary Gibbon
Does Scottish poll vindicate Brown’s silence on Megrahi?
The first Scottish opinion poll shows 42% of voters approve of Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill’s decision to let Mr al-Megrahi go home.
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Gary Gibbon
Downing St is told Megrahi will not be Libyan guest of honour
The Justice Secretary Jack Straw, at a Guardian seminar, has implied that he would not have gone to visit Mr al-Megrahi in prison if the decision had been his. It’s a nudge towards criticism of the Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, going slightly further than other Cabinet ministers have dared to go in public. There…
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Gary Gibbon
Still no comment from Brown on Megrahi decision
Gordon Brown appears at No 10 with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, but does not budge on Lockerbie bomber release.
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Gary Gibbon
Megrahi release: SNP will not face ‘no confidence’ vote
The Scottish Parliament looks set to debate the Lockerbie bomber release on Wednesday morning of next week, but the SNP will not face a no confidence vote.
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Gary Gibbon
What lies behind Brown’s silence on Megrahi release
Why Gordon Brown is being advised to maintain his silence on the release of convicted Libyan al-Megrahi.