According to Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent of the Guardian, in an article published just today (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/25/barack-obama-megrahi-release-lockerbie)
The US grudgingly supported freeing the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds.
The letter was sent to Scottish ministers by a senior diplomat at the US embassy in London last August, eight days before Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released from prison because he was dying from inoperable prostate cancer.
It is now known, of course, that al-Megrahi, who murdered 270 innocent people -- mostly Americans, British and Scots -- in pursuit of the aggressive designs of his leader, the mad Libyan dictator Muammar Kaddafi, has made a miraculous recovery from his "incurable prostate cancer," and it now appears that al-Megrahi's release was part of a corrupt deal in exchange for oil purchase rights.
---- FUCKING RAGE.
Edit at 9:30am: Personally...?
Just send in the SAS.
Have them take the bastard back
"We released you because we were told you were dying."
"We're taking you back, because you are not."
And if he doesn't want to go back to prison, then he can die [read: be shot] in Libya, and complete the contract.