Still the families of the
Lockerbie victims wait
for truth and justice
An obituary should remind
us of the elusiveness
of the human condition
When I mentioned
solidarity, it was a new
word to my 18-year-old son
A tribute to
George Wyllie
1921-2012
An overview
of the
Lockerbie case
The Scottish Review republishes Morag Kerr’s evaluation, which
first appeared here
some weeks ago
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Unless the SNP tells us what
it knows about Lockerbie,
I’m quitting the party
Judith Jaafar
As Fisk concluded, no matter how self-righteously enraged the Yanks were
at the release of Megrahi, can you imagine how incandescent they would be
if Scotland dared to reveal the truth about the Lockerbie bombing?
My speculations are as useful or as useless as anyone else’s, but I must admit my old buddy Robert Fisk of Beirut and Independent fame put into words the other day in the paper exactly what my thoughts are on this matter. Oh, how enraged the Americans were when we released Megrahi on compassionate grounds. Hillary Clinton went ape-shit, at least publicly, and half the American government and nation wanted to see Scotland disappear off the face of the earth, those of them that had any knowledge of the Lockerbie bombing in the first place. What weak fools the Scots were, and a whole bunch of Yankees were never going to set foot in Scotland again. ‘Bovvered’, I had to ask?
But therein lies the possible answer to this ethical/judicial/political conundrum. How much does a fledgling-yet-ancient nation on the periphery of Europe, breaking away from the colonial master and possibly now flying free without the safety net of a strong European Union, need the goodwill of the USA (and all the Scottish expats and ancestors therein), still the most powerful political and economic entity in the world? Hmm. As Fisk concluded, no matter how self-righteously enraged the Yanks were at the release of Megrahi, can you imagine how incandescent they would be if Scotland dared to reveal the truth about the Lockerbie bombing?
If I were Alex Salmond, I would be finding it hard to sleep at night. I don’t envy him his position, but have informed the party executive that unless they come clean about Megrahi, in whatever way they can, I will be leaving the party that I have belonged to since I was a nipper. That’s how important this issue is to me. It’s not really about poor Abdelbaset (may Allah bless him), but about the integrity of Scotland. This whole affair is a stain on Scotland’s very soul.
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